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Sustainable Mallorca (Sustainable World)

How can I get involved?

(A Story of Star Stuff)

Rialto Living Palma de Mallorca

March 30, 2017

1.  A world in disruption – looking at the cracks

2.  Global problems, local solutions, and community

3.  How can I get involved?

10 Home Countries - 50+ Homes - 40+ Visiting Countries 10+ Businesses, NGO’s, Associations - 16 Cities

4 Continents - 8 Languages

10 Home Countries - 50+ Homes - 40+ Visiting Countries 10+ Businesses, NGO’s, Associations - 16 Cities

4 Continents - 8 Languages

One Planet

“Jag är en främling i detta land men detta land är ingen främling i mig!

Jag är inte hemma i detta land men detta land beter sig som hemma i mig!“

-  Gunnar Ekelöf (Non Serviam, 1945) / Ernst Nordin (sculpture)

“I am a stranger in this land but this land is no stranger in me!

I am not at home in this land but this land behaves as if it where at home in me!“

-  Gunnar Ekelöf (Non Serviam, 1945) / Ernst Nordin (sculpture)

“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”

― Carl Sagan

Finiteplanet-Finiteisland

Other facts (plus): -  100% renewable energy (green certificates) in all government

and public buildings since 1.1.2017

-  New waste management system in Palma to collect organic waste.

-  More than 100 “green” businesses registered on Mallorca

-  More demand than supply of organic local produce

-  Energy efficient landscape, high biodiversity in “mosaic” agro-ecosystem

-  High resilience (low economical sustainability)

-  High local political awareness for environmental action

Sandra Espeja (Consell) Joan Groizard (Govern) Neus Truyol (Ajuntament) Toni Noguera (Urbanisme) (New Mayor)

Other facts (minus): -  26,254,000 (26 million) passengers in transit PMI 2016

-  197,639 flight operations (one airplane every 2 minutes)

-  13,000,000 (13 million) visitors in Baleares 2016

-  95% of all food consumed on the island is imported

-  0,69 kg of food per person per day is thrown away (ex. 100,000 kg /year /hotel with 200 rooms)

-  500,000 tons waste generated per year

-  97% Energy generated by coal fired plant (Alcudia) and waste incinerator (Son Reus)

-  Drought in 2016 required desalination to compensate for supply shortfall. (Flooding in December and January refilled reservoirs to capacity – from 37% to 70% in one week)

A simple road map for staying below 2°C 1.  Global CO2 emissions from energy and industry have to fall in

half each decade. That is, in the 2020s, the world cuts emissions in half. Then we do it again in the 2030s. Then we do it again in the 2040s. They dub this a “carbon law” (as in “Moores Law).

2.  Net emissions from land use — i.e., from agriculture and

deforestation — have to fall steadily to zero by 2050 3.  Technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere

have to start scaling up massively, until we’re artificially pulling 5 gigatons of CO2 per year out of the atmosphere by 2050 — nearly double what all the world’s trees and soils already do.

Authors: Johan Rockström1, Owen Gaffney1,2, Joeri Rogelj3,4, Malte Meinshausen5,6, Nebojsa Nakicenovic4, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber1,5 Sources: http://www.vox.com (March 24, 2017) http://science.sciencemag.org

Finiteplanet-Finiteisland

Sacred Valley Dialogues

Downtown Dinner Dialogues

EcoLab Mallorca / BioChar Balear

CineConCiencia

RadioConCiencia

www.sputnikradio.es

“Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” Season 1, Episode 1: “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”

“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” - “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, Season 1, Episode 1: “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” (1980) Host and co-writer Carl Sagan

Stop, (observe) Reflect, and Listen…

Allowing something old to die Is allowing something new to be born.

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Cracks let the light through

Is that starlight coming through the cracks?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

– Marianne Williamson

Thank you! Gràcies! Gracias!

Christer Söderberg +34 603 815 770 christer@soderberg.com