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CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 13. THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT. PLAN: BEFORE PESACH. TODAY: COMPLETE URBAN ENVIRONMENT/ GROUP EXERCISE TOMORROW/FRIDAY: CHAP 23: MINING MON-FRI (4/4): ENERGY UNIT: MONDAY: RECENT M/C PRACTICE TEST RESULTS Chapter 19 “Fossil Fuels, Their Impacts, and Energy Conservation” Chapter 20

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  1. CHAPTER 13 THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

  2. PLAN: BEFORE PESACH • TODAY: COMPLETE URBAN ENVIRONMENT/ GROUP EXERCISE • TOMORROW/FRIDAY: CHAP 23: MINING • MON-FRI (4/4): ENERGY UNIT: • MONDAY: RECENT M/C PRACTICE TEST RESULTS • Chapter 19 “Fossil Fuels, Their Impacts, and Energy Conservation” • Chapter 20 “Conventional Energy Alternatives” • Chapter 21 “New Renewable Energy Alternatives”

  3. PLAN: BEFORE PESACH MON-FRI (4/11): • Chapter 22: “Managing our Waste”: WEEK MAR 31 • Chapter 14: “Environmental Health and Toxicology”: WEEK MAR 31 • Chapter 18: “Global Climate Change: WEEK MAR 31 • AP FR PRACTICE • FRI (ALSO POSTED): STUDY PACKET FOR PESACH

  4. PLAN: AFTER PESACH THURS APRIL 24 -------- FRIDAY MAY 2 AP EXAM PREP: • FULL PRACTICE TEST • M/C STRATEGY • FR STRATEGY • LOOSE ENDS ? MONDAY MAY 5: AP EXAM

  5. OUR SHIFTING HUMAN ENVIRONMENT • 2009: More of us living in urban areas (cities, suburbs) than rural • “URBANIZATION” • Nomadic hunter-gatherer ------- Agricultural settlements -------- Urban centers • CHAPTER: ‘Urban living potentially results in a SMALLER footprint!’

  6. cities V SUBURBS ?!

  7. CITIES V SUBURBS • CITIES AS THEY ARE NOW • CITIES AS THEY COULD BE......PAY MORE NOW TO SAVE OVER THE LONG-TERM? • SUBURBS AND SPRAWL • E FOOTPRINTS, LIFESTYLE EXPECTATIONS, CARRYING CAPACITY, OVERSHOOT • SUSTAINABILITY.....ARE WE SELFISHLY ROBBING OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE?

  8. CITIES AS THEY ARE NOW....ATLANTA! • METROPOLITAN ATLANTA: • CITY OF ATLANTA : 432,000 • OUTLYING SUBURBS: 39 COUNTIES (!): 5,700,000 • NINTH LARGEST IN USA • 24% POP INCREASE SINCE 2000; SECOND ONLY TO HOUSTON • MINIMAL PUBLIC COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION • GOODS TRUCKED OUT TO OUTLYING SUBURBS

  9. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/images/uploads/SF_Ecological_Footprint_Analysis.pdfhttp://www.footprintnetwork.org/images/uploads/SF_Ecological_Footprint_Analysis.pdf

  10. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK CALCULATOR • http://footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/ • SUBURBAN LIVING: • 50% Food from > 200 mi • Car: 150-200 mi/wk • Car: 15-30 mpg • Public Trans: 0% • Carpooling: 0% • Free-standing home: 1600 – 2200 sqft (4 persons) • Air travel: 4-10 Hrs/year

  11. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK CALCULATOR • SUBURBAN LIVING: • 50% Food from > 200 mi • Car: 150-200 mi/wk • Car: 15-30 mpg • Public Trans: 0% • Carpooling: 0% • Free-standing home: 1600 – 2200 sqft • Air travel: 4-10 Hrs/year • 5.3 PLANET EARTHS • 23.5 GLOBAL ACRES: “ENERGY LAND” • 25% Food, 38% “Services”, 17% Mobility • “Services”: health care, entertainment, restaurants, real estate, legal services, government and the military

  12. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK CALCULATOR • http://footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/ • URBAN LIVING: • 25% Food from > 200 mi • Car: 1-50 mi/wk • Car: 30-40 mpg • Public Trans: > 50 mi/wk • Carpooling: “often” • Multi-story apt bldg: 1050 – 1600 sqft (4 persons) • Air travel: 4-10 Hrs/year

  13. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK CALCULATOR • URBAN LIVING: • 25% Food from > 200 mi • Car: 1-50 mi/wk • Car: 30-40 mpg • Public Trans: > 50 mi/wk • Carpooling: “often” • Multi-story apt bldg: 1050 – 1600 sqft (4 persons) • Air travel: 4-10 Hrs/year • 4.3 PLANET EARTHS • 19.3 GLOBAL ACRES: “ENERGY LAND” • 23% Food, 46% “Services”, 12% Mobility • “Services”: health care, entertainment, restaurants, real estate, legal services, government and the military

  14. CREATING LIVABLE CITIES

  15. CREATING LIVABLE CITIES • URBAN PLANNING • + • ZONING • + • URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARIES • = • “SMART GROWTH”

  16. Caln Township, PA: ZONING: Pre-designated land use

  17. MODEL: PORTLAND, OR

  18. PORTLAND, OR: URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY: Offer City Utilities Only so Far From City Center

  19. BOGOTA, COLUMBIA: 7.8 MILLION (2005) • 7.8 MILLION (2005) • TRANSMILENIO BUS SYSTEM! • PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY THRU CITY • CITY $$ GO TO REVITALIZATION OF POORER DISTRICTS • ETC ETC!

  20. URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

  21. URBAN SUSTAINABILITY • DESIGN “GREEN BUILDINGS” • Built from sustainable materials • Minimize use of energy • Minimize use of water • Minimize health impacts on occupants • Limit pollution • Recycle waste • U.S. CERTIFICATION: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) • “Silver, Gold, Platinum”

  22. LEED CERTIFIED: GEHC! INCREASED CONSTRUCTION COSTS: 10% FOR LEED PLATINUM “leeduser.com”: “2 – 15%” increased cost

  23. HW/COLLECTED MONDAY: FR PRACTICE • “Write a FR-formatted thoughtful discussion, considering the following questions. Aim for one medium paragraph for each. You may work in pairs and submit one document. Pls type. Provide some support for major statements” • EXPLORE: • Does each of us have a moral obligation to lower our own eco footprints, even if it means giving up our comfortable suburban lifestyles? Or, should the statement, ‘if you can buy it, you can have it’ prevail? • If we decide, as a society, to follow the model of the ‘sustainable city’, how, in the USA, can we achieve this? Can we do this without an economic burden, by perhaps shifting our spending, or will we simply have to accept some upfront cost so that we can reap future benefits? • Do highly developed nations, with large footprints, have any obligation to poorer countries, in terms of not taking more than their share of available global resources? • Any other comments, suggestions?

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