Change the World!

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Building a Sustainable Energy Future for British ColumbiaJoin us! www.bcsea.org

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Our vision is a sustainable future in which

all of BC’s energy

is green and renewable.

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When you think about the future of our world, what do you feel?


HOPE

WORRY

or

?






We’ve come a long way from this….




To this …


but…


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We have also come to this…





GDP =GrossDepletion of the

Planet





Climate Change


How to Understand the Climate Crisis in 10 Easy Steps



1. Earth has a very thin atmosphere, which protects us from being roasted by day and frozen by night.



2. Two important “greenhouse gases” trap heat in the atmosphere

and keep us warm: water vapor and

carbon dioxide



3. When there is too little water vapor and carbon dioxide, Earth goes into an Ice Age.



3. When there is too much, Earth warms, ice melts, and sea levels rise.



4.

ICE AGES

4. Carbon dioxide (blue) and temperature (red) have tracked each other very closely over the last 700,000 years.



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5. The gasoline that fuels the world’s transportation comes from ancient fossil carbon.



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6. The coal that generates much of the world’s electricity comes from ancient fossil carbon.


As we burn the fossil fuels…


7. When we burn fossil fuels, their ancient carbon escapes into the atmosphere



8. When we burn forests, their carbon escapes, entering the atmosphere.



When we destroy forests, their carbon also escapes, entering the atmosphere.


9. All this extra carbon is trapping too much heat, and causing

global warming.

Burning fossil fuels anddestroying Earth’s forests


If global warming exceeds 1.6°C up to

31% of Earth’s species

will be committed to extinction,

having nowhere to go to escape the rising heat


HOPE

WORRY

or

?




10.








“The two scientists cited a major study which stated that people using cell phones doubled their risk of developing brain cancer and acoustic neuromas, a tumor that damages the hearing nerve… and that people who started using cell phone before the age of 20 years are five times more likely to develop brain cancer.

The European Parliament voted 522 to 16 to urge ministers to impose stricter limits, because children are particularly vulnerable to the risk.” Mercola.com


Toronto’s Department of Public Health:

“Children under 8 should only use

mobiles in emergencies.

Teenagers should limit calls

to 10 minutes or less.”



Was that text message that important?


Was that text message that important?


10.

A New Green Economy

The power of our vision


than the power of our fears


The Race to Zero CarbonThe Race to Zero Carbon

is the Race to a Clean Green

Economy

is the Race to a Clean Green

Economy



























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Two Possible Futures

One Rational Choice

We don’t need to vilify fossil fuels. We can praise them, and

then say “Enough!”

For 300,000 years, we harvested the Sun’s energy through firewood

For 300 years, we have harvestedit from fossil fuels

It was fossil fuelsthat launched the Industrial Age

and the modern world.

It is fossil fuels that have made advanced engineering, solar PV and electric vehicles possible.

The Age of Fossil Fuels is the necessary

LAUNCH RAMPfor the Solar Age

300,000 yearsFirewood

300 yearsFossil Fuels

A billion yearsSolar Energy

The Age of Firewood

The Age of Fossil Fuels

The Solar Age

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A billion years

The Sun will not begin to turn into a Red Giant for more than a billion years

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The Sun will not begin to turn into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.

And with every passing year, solar technology will improve

and fall in price.

More solar energy reaches Earth in an hour than humans use in a year.

Sunmine, Kimberley, BC. 1.05 MW, 4,000 solar modules www.sunmine.ca

1977: $77

1997: $7

2013: $0.7

Price of Solar PVper Watt

A hundredfold fall in the price of solar PV

since 1977

Mass production = falling prices

100 GW in 2012

Solar PV 140-fold increase since 2000

200 GWin 2014

By 2020, every south-facing roof without 4 kW solar could lose its owner up to $1,000 a year



By 2020, every commercial roof that is not solar could lose its owner $10,000 a year

Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

Solar railwayParis to

Amsterdam

Solar Stadium, Taiwan

70%OF CANADIANS SUPPORT MOVING TO A

SYSTEM OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

T-Sou’ke First NationVancouver Island

T’Sou-ke Nation Solar Project

T-Sou’ke Chief Gordon Planes:

“First Nations have lived for thousands of years

on this continent without fossil fuels.

It is appropriate that First Nations

lead the way out of dependency and

addiction to fossil fuels and rely on the power

of the elements, the sun, the wind

and the sea once again.”


The Challenge Tree

T’Sou-ke First Nation


The Challenge Tree

T’Sou-ke First Nation

“I will have only a three-minute shower.”

“I will turn the lights off when I leave my room”


Siemens AG

Bear Mountain Wind Farm, Tumbler Ridge, BC.

Transportation without Oil

Make walking fun and joyful

Istanbul,Turkey

Seoul, South Korea

In Holland, cycling is the main mode of transport for 31% of the people


San Francisco Bike Lane

Granville Street BridgeVancouver’s Imagined Future

Electric Bikes


The Copenhagen Wheel

Solar electric bike, top speed 48 km/hr

Solar Bike Lane, Holland

Cycling on the Solar Bike Lane

Better Local Transit

OLEVOn-Line Electric Vehicle, South Korea

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Fast, dangerous streets being slowed

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Fast, dangerous streets being slowed

Electric Vehicles


Nissan Leaf Electric - 120 km range

Tesla 300-400 km range



Honda solar electric car charging

The Falling Price of EV Lithium Batteries

Top

Hiroko EV

Top

Siemens ZeroCat all-electric car ferry, Norway 120 cars +360 passengers

10 minutes recharge, 30-minute trip800 kw, 400 kw battery bank. 10 knots


Japan’s Magnetic Levitation Train


World Train Speed Record603 km/hour


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HOPE

WORRY

or

?


Green Schools


Grow a School Food Garden

The Edible Schoolyard, San Francisco


Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School School, Berkeley

www.edibleschoolyard.org

TheEdible

Schoolyard


Brooklyn Public School

In New York, they turned THIS…


into THIS


“A valuable tool for creating rich

learning experiences and helping children

reconnect to the natural world.”

- Richard Louv,

author of Last Child in the Woods






The Nanaimo Food Forest Team






SALT SPRING’S SOLAR PRIDEGULF ISLANDS SECONDARY SCHOOL


Build a Solar Electric Car


School Solar Car Challenge, Texas


Use your Wheels


Woodlands Clean Air Commuter Challenge, June 2008



Calculate your school’s Carbon Footprint

and work to reduce it.


www.greenteacher.com



Become a Zero Waste School


School garbage audit



Garbage-Free Lunch




… become a green engineer

Some of you could go on to…


… become a solar installer


… design solar cookers


… make solar cars


… build wind turbines


… become an electric car engineer


… sell electric bikes


… become a green architect


… become an ecologist


…become a greenengineer


… become a green architect


… build solar-cob houses


… become a green investor


v… become an organic farmer


… become a chef for real food

Guy Dauncey 2015Guy Dauncey 2015www.earthfuture.com www.earthfuture.com … become a green politician


… study for a Green Business Degree


WOODLANDS ENVIRONMENT CLUB


A Stable, Long-Lasting Club:

•Students from Grade 8•Students from Grade 9•Students from Grade 10•Students from Grade 11•Students from Grade 12


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12

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Keep in warm and watered inside until the soil is warm outside, at the end of May






This is an amazing opportunity


to build a Green, Solar World


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… or give up, and tell yourself you can’t make a difference


By Nattanicha Kongsathitporn, age 14, Thailand

We need to roll up the past.

Guy Dauncey 2011Guy Dauncey 2011www.earthfuture.com www.earthfuture.com By Iskren Rumenov Petrov, age 14, from Bulgaria

We need to sail away from our old, polluting waysand build a green, sustainable world.



This is about our future.


Dream itWish itDo it


If you want to make a difference, now would be a great time to do so.

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The visions we offer our

children shape the future.

It matters what those visions

are. Carl Sagan



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There’ll be blue birds over, the White Cliffs of Dovertomorrow, just you wait and see.

There’ll be love and laughter, and peace ever after, tomorrow, when the world is free.


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The forests will grow so deepThe planet will bloom again,


The farmers will heal the earthOn their own precious land again.

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There’ll be solar rooftops,

Solar Electric Light Fund www.self.org


and lush organic gardens, tomorrow, just you wait and see,


There’ll be bike bells ringing, and Nature singing,

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Tomorrow,When the world is Green.

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