Lopez Sustainability Collaborative Potluck/Pizza Fest

Thurs Mar 225:30 pm

LCCA

Come share an evening of good food, cheer and

discussion about sustainable future of Lopez Island. The event

will be casual, interactive & family-friendly and will feature

research work focusing on transportation, energy, food,

water, agriculture and waste on Lopez Island by a group of

graduate students from Monterey Institute of

International Studies (MIIS) in California.

Please bring a dish to share and your own table setting. We will

provide Donna's famous cob-oven pizzas.

Brought to you by Islands Energy Coalition and MIIS’s “Islands and Sustainability” ClassContact Chris/Chom Greacen for more info: 468-3189

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Electricity use in kWh/month:Average Lopez home: 1,000Avg Common Ground home: 400

Recycled glass is of very little market value and is currently trucked to fill gravel pits on the

mainland

Power usage in near-identical houses can differ 10 fold:

a case study of Common Ground

All electricity that powers SJ islands comes through this spot on Lopez

Lopez and the rest of San Juan islands rely on two submarine cables to bring electricity from the mainland

Meeting with Lopez high school students helped generate ideas

for building a sustainable future.

Each year 333 dump truck loads of yard clippings are burnt at the

Lopez Sand and Gravel pit.

Lopez brings in approximately 30,ooo yards of crushed rocks

per year

“‘Waste’ is actually a ‘resource’.Tree clippings are chipped and

used around the farm.”- Henning Sehmsdorf

Lopez has 6000 acres of forests (~3 acres/person)

“If sustainably managed, we have enough biomass to meet all Lopez

space and water heating needs and more.”

- Arborist Zach Blomberg

“Don’t give up.” - Rick Strachan

It took 1,460 days (longer than World War II) and $15,000 to get this wind turbine permitted.

Due to lack of composting infrastructure,

bio-solids (from human & food waste)

from Lopez Island are trucked 2-4 times/ month to the mainland to

be incinerated.

In summertime, >500,000 gallons per month of treated water (suitable for irrigation of all but root crops) from the Fisherman Bay Sewer District is released into the sea.

Median income on the island: $46,000Median House price : $507,000

Approximately 70% of Horse Drawn Farms revenue is from their

farm stand.

Lopez ships 400 tons of recycling off the island every

year.

The school gardens provide 90% of the produce served in school

lunches.