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The Water Cycle. (Ground water). California Marine Protection Areas. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/pdfs/southcoast_isor_040710.pdf . Recommendations for San Diego. CONSERVATION (SHORT TERM & LONG TERM) • Implement the Regional Model Landscape Ordinance.
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California Marine Protection Areas http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/pdfs/southcoast_isor_040710.pdf
Recommendations for San Diego CONSERVATION (SHORT TERM & LONG TERM) • Implement the Regional Model Landscape Ordinance. • Work with industry stakeholders to establish educational, training and certification programs and compliance standards for landscape professionals. • Work with local nurseries and retailers to promote drought-tolerant landscaping & indoor water savings devices in their stores. • Engage in a consistent and effective public education and outreach campaign on how to achieve indoor and outdoor water conservation. • Promote incentive-based water conservation rebates and implement more aggressive residential tiered water rates to encourage users to save. • Develop a long-term plan to retrofit all government-owned sites (parks, civic centers, government facilities, freeway & roadway rights of way, etc.) with drought-tolerant landscaping and weather-based irrigation controllers. Where replacing landscaping is inconsistent with the intended use (e.g., active parks), consider adjustments to the irrigation schedule, install weatherbased irrigation controllers and remove water-consumptive vegetation where possible. • Through education and incentives, encourage larger water users such as apartment and condominium complexes and commercial and industrial sites to install irrigation technologies like drip and weather-based irrigation controllers and replace water-consumptive vegetation.
New Sources De-Salinization Rainwater Harvesting http://www.sandiego.gov/water/conservation/rainwater.shtml http://www.otaywater.gov/owd/index.aspx
Energy Resources Types: Non-Renewable & Renewable (Time frames!) Examples of each?
Coal -Mined -Stripped, Mountain-top removal -Pros? -Cons?
Oil Wells: Drilled on land or offshore -Pros? -Cons?
Natural Gas -Drilled wells -Pros? -Cons?
Energy Consumption (Worldwide is about the same)
Proposal General Outline • Title • Summary (Keep brief, overview of whole proposal) • Introduction • Background (Explain the general problem you wish to address) • Review of what other schools are doing to address to issue • Statement of the scope and benefit of the project to the school • Project Goals and Objective • Goal 1 • Objective 1 ii.Objective 2 • Cost/Benefit Analysis (Detail analysis of associated expenditures and long term benefits) • Conclusions
Air Pollution Outdoor Air Pollution Sources? • Smog (photochemical) • Particulates • Ozone (lower tropospheric) • Lead, Hg • Cloroflourocarbons • (aerosols, refrigerants) -CO2
Economic Costs of Air Pollution E.P.A. Estimates Health care- $150 billion/year (U.S. only) Forest productivity- $30 billion/year Agricultural losses- $2.6 billion/year Material Damage?
Earth’s Atmosphere and the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change
The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and average temperatures from 1958 to 2000
Nuclear Energy Pros ? Cons ?
Nuclear is not emission - free • Plant construction • Mining uranium and milling • Conversion of fuel • Enrichment of fuel • Plant operations • Transport and storage of waste • Decommissioning