The Pele Isles Method

The secret behind Pele Isles’s 20-year rise to Canada’s greenest city is revealed to EARTH WATCH by 8 prominent citizens

Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………...3

Year-by-Year Environmental Record……………………….4

Breakdown of Environmental Record…………………..6-8

Health Council Report…………………………………….9

Civilian Report………………………………..………….10

Student Report………………………………..…………..11

Businessman Report…………………………..………….12

Scientist Report…………………………….………….14-17

How you can reduce your Ecological Foot-print………………………………………...………….18-21

BONUS: Why not all energy methods were not created equally efficient……………………….…………………..22

Image Credits………………………………………….….23

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Copyright © 2011 by Earth Watch, Inc.

LAYOUT AN D DESIGN: Lyndon Chan, former Mayor of Pele Isles

INTRODUCTION: Jorna Liszt

YEAR-BY-YEAR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD: Anna Liszt

BREAKDOWN OF ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD: Anna Liszt

HEALTH COUNCIL REPORT: Dr. Helen Phee, President of the Pele Isles Health Council

CIVILIAN REPORT: Norm “Al” Jane, Chairman of the Pele Isles Residents Council

STUDENT REPORT: Steward Pitt, President of the Pele Isles Middle School Council

BUSINESSMAN REPORT: Hugh Peyen, Chairman of the Pele Isles Business Council

SCIENTIST REPORT: Prof. S. Marty, Head of the Faculty of Science, University of Pele Isles

HOW YOU CAN REDUE YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT: Lyndon Chan, former Mayor of Pele Isles

Introduction by Jorna Liszt

Currently the fourth largest city in Ontario and the largest in South-western Ontario, the City of Pele Isles was founded in 1934 by a group of British, Italian, and Portuguese migrants from Toronto. The story goes that they searched the area for weeks for the perfect area to settle in until they found a beautiful group of four islands just off the coast of Lake Erie. Upon noting the local Natives skinning some beavers and mink, they agreed on a name for their new settlement. The Britons called it “Beaver Pelt Isles”, the Italians called it “ “Ilhas de Castor Pele”, and the Italians called it or “Isole di Castoro Pelle”. But as the years passed, the city became known as “Pele Isles” by most inhabitants.

Initially, the main industry of the Pele Isles was shipbuilding and forestry. But as the demand for oil grew, a massive deposit of crude oil was discovered almost next to Pele Isles. Soon, with money pouring in from all over Canada to develop the new deposit, the oil overtook the other industries within a few years and was able to make the city completely self-sufficient in terms of energy production. Pele Isles grew phenomenally during this period and was a major stop for trade along Lake Erie. Three state-of-the-art oil plants were built and Pele Isles was even able to export some excess to the United States by ship.

Then, Pele Isles entered the 1980s and its citizens began voicing its concerns at the adverse effects of its dependence on oil upon the environment at Pele Isles. The once pristine waters were polluted, the air had a linger-ing smell in it, and visitors began to nickname Pele Isles as “Pallid Isles”, referring to the unhealthily pale skin of the inhabitants caused by the poor air quality. From the year 1980 to 2010, an entire line of mayors came into office promising a stronger environmental record but were constantly voted out when they failed to keep their promises.

Then in 2010, a new mayor came into office with a new slogan: c In contrast to the laissez-faire approach of his predecessors, Mayor Lyndon Chan used a more interventionist strategy. He invested heavily in green energy technologies and conservation techniques while gradually cutting off all funding for non-renewable energy sources. Within the 20 years that he has been in office, Mayor Chan’s proactive strategies have allowed Pele Isles derive 100% of its energy from local and environmentally-friendly sources. As well, Pele Isles has one of the high-est GDP per capita in all of Canada. So, how did he do it?

FACT FILE:

PELE ISLES

Population (in 2030): 1,039,750

Population (in 2010): 591,300

GDP per capita (in 2030) US$ 81,900 (4th in Canada)

Mother Languages Spoken (in 2030): English (31%), Italian (19%), Portuguese (14%), Oth-ers (36%)

MAYOR LYNDON CHAN

Born and raised in Markham, Ontario

Has a B.Eng from Waterloo University and a M.Eng from University of Toronto

Moved to Pele Isles at age 21 and worked for 9 years as a Professional Energy Systems Engineer

Became Pele Isles’ youngest ever mayor at age 30

Re-elected four times between 2010 and 2030

Finally retired yesterday as mayor of Pele Isles on January 13, 2030

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Year-by-Year Environmental

Record by Anna Liszt

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Year # Actions & Events

1 Wind Farm Built; Hydroelectric Resources Researched

2 Tidal Resources Researched; Residential Planning Researched

3 Wind Farm completed and used; Transportation Planning Researched; < 50% Budget Spent

4 No research; Tidal Power Plant #1 Built; Political Rival Criticism

5 Wind Power Farm Upgraded and used; Bike Paths Built

6 Commercial Planning Researched; State legislature ends Gas-powered lawnmower tax credit

7 Tidal Power Plant #1 completed and used; Green Business Incentives Built; Unusually hot sum-mer

8 No Power Plant upgrades; Green Rooftops Built

9 Tidal Power Plant #2 Built; Fuel Cell Technology Researched; Good economy

10 No new power plants built; Solar Resources Researched; Federal Watershed Protection Grant

11 Fuel Cell Cars Built; No Tidal Power Plant Built; Local Nonprofit Wildlife Preserve established

12 Tidal Power Plant #2 completed and used; Commercial PV Panels Built; No investment in Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, or Biofuel; Industrial Facility Toxic Accident

13 Fuel Cell Buses Built; No new power plants built

14 Geothermal Resources Researched; > 40% Budget Spent

15 Residential PV Panels Built; Slow Job Growth

16 Oil Power Plant #1 Upgraded

17 Geothermal Heating Built

18 Bike to Work/School Program

19 Green Building Initiative Foundation Established

20 No research or strategy enacted that harms Global Environmental Health

Year-by-Year Environmental

Record by Anna Liszt

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SUMMARY: From the overall shape of the Local Air Quality graph above, we can see that Mayor Chan’s record here consists of a significant drop in the beginning, a slowing down period, and then a dramatic rise to 100%.

2010 to 2017: A linear downward trend occurs, coinciding to the times when Pele Isles was only running on Wind Power and Oil Burning

2018 to 2020: The falling steadies out , due to the inauguration of the Pele Isles Primary Tidal Power Plant (in 2017), the subsequent phasing out of oil burning, the building of Green Roof-tops (in 2018) and Fuel Cell Technology (in 2019).

2021 to 2024: The Local Air Quality climbs dramatically from 35% to 96% in 3 years, coinciding with the introduction of Fuel Cell Cars (in 2021), Fuel Cell Buses (in 2023), and the establish-ment of the Pele Isles Wildlife Reserve by a local non-profit organization (in 2021).

2025 to 2030: The Local Air Quality plateaus near the top, thanks to a combination of clean en-ergy production methods and excellent conservation methods

IN SHORT: Mayor Chan entered office with 80% Local Air Quality and brought it to 100% in just 14 years.

Breakdown of Environmental Record by Anna Liszt

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SUMMARY: Mayor Chan’s Global Environmental Health record is a lot more stable but still consisting of an early drop and then a dramatic rise back to the top.

2010 to 2016: A steady downward trend occurs, due to Pele Isles still generating energy from oil burning. Fortunately, the trend was slowed down by the construction of the first Wind Farm (in 2013) and its later upgrade (in 2015).

2017 to 2019: The Global Environmental Health begins to dramatically rise, supported by the completion of the 200-megawatt Pele Isles Primary Tidal Power Plant (in 2017) and the reduced reliance on oil burning.

2020 to 2021: The Global Environmental Health steadily rises, coinciding with the Federal Wa-tershed Protection Grant (in 2020)

2012 to 2013: The Global Environmental Health takes a small dip from the completion of the Pele Isles’ Secondary Power Plant (in 2022) but reaches 100% the following year

2014 to 2030: The Global Environmental Health remains stable and never drops below 90%, de-spite the notorious 2022 COTREX Industrial Mercury Leak and the introduction of Geothermal Heating (in 2027).

IN SHORT: Mayor Chan entered office with 100% Local Air Quality and returned it to 100% in just 13 years.

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SUMMARY: Mayor Chan’s budget record has been the riskiest of all—with at least four distinct drops. At least in the case of Pele Isles, a good environment only comes from risky spending.

2010 to 2012: The first budget drop occurs, coinciding with the building of the first Wind Farm (23% budget), research in Hydroelectric Resources, Tidal Resources, and Residential Planning.

2013 to 2015: The second budget drop occurs, coinciding with the construction of the first Tidal Power Plant (costing 30% of the budget), Bike Paths, Wind Farm upgrades, and research in Transportation Planning

2016 to 2019: The budget appears to rise up due to spending on cheap conservation methods, such as Green Rooftops, Green Business Incentives, and Commercial Planning

2019: The greatest ever (and third) budget drop occurs when Mayor Chan builds the second Tidal Power Plant (30% budget) and researches Fuel Cell Technology (25% budget), leaving him 1% from bankruptcy. Luckily, he was saved by a 10% budget boost from the rising economy.

2020 to 2023: The budget rises again when Mayor Chan only invests in conservation strategies such as Fuel Cell Cars, Solar Resources, and Commercial PV Panels.

2024 to 2025: The budget takes a final dip (and fourth), coinciding with requests by local busi-nessmen urge to spend 40% of his budget—a challenge that is fulfilled by research in Geother-mal Resources (30% budget).

2026 to 2030: The budget rises dramatically when spending is focused on energy production.

IN SHORT: Mayor Chan entered office in 2010 with a 100% budget and left office with 81% budget in 2030.

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Health Council Report

by Dr. Helen Phee

As the President of the Pele Isles Health Council for the 20 years that Mr. Lyndon Chan has been Mayor of Pele Isles, I am happy to say that I have been absolutely thrilled with what he has done to this city. Initially, I had some misgivings his plans during the municipal elections of 2010. On the morning that he was declared the 28th Mayor of Pele Isles, he said:

It is inevitable that the quality of life in Pele Isles will continue to drop somewhat for the first 7 to 9 years of my term as mayor; but I assure you, it will rise to 100% in just 15 years. So I ask you all to keep in mind that, while our renewable energy power plants are being built, we will continue to depend on fossil fuels to power this city.

Well, let me restate that: I was very much against Mayor Lyndon Chan’s plan. The entire Health Council looked worriedly as the Local Air Quality dropped to 30% by 2017 and we would have been very unhappy indeed had he not fulfilled our every request.

When we asked him to invest in any technology that improved Local Air Quality in 2012, he re-searched Tidal Resources. When we asked him to research Transportation Planning in 2013, he did so. When we asked him not to invest in any polluting technologies, in 2022, he even went the extra mile and built Fuel Cell Cars.

The previous year—2021—the Local Air Quality had risen 22% up to 2012 levels. We were so happy that we decided to officially show our support for Mayor Chan’s policies. And this, I have been told, increased public participation in Mayor Chan’s conservation strategies so much that the Local Air Quality rose 15% in 2022.

Then, just six years ago, I heard that the Local Air Quality indeed had reached 100% for the first time in Pele Isles’ recorded history—even earlier than Mayor Chan had promised. I doubt that any of Mayor Chan’s successors will be able to exceed his amazing feats as Mayor of Pele Isles.

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Resident Report by Norm “Al” Jane

When I look back at the 20 years that Mayor Lyndon Chan has been Mayor of Pele Isles, I see an unparal-leled political term. Al-though I must admit that I, as the Chairman of the Pele Isles Resi-dents Council, was quite hesitant to trust his election slogan of “Being Green is Not Free” , there was no other candidate capa-ble enough.

Of course, he has now gone beyond his promises and succeeded where his predecessors failed (the 27th Mayor, James McKinley, both bankrupted the city’s budget and failed to slow down our environment’s demise). In addition, Mayor Chan also satisfied all of my demands and made Pele Isles’s environmental record envied by the rest of Canada.

While his predecessors always ignored almost all of the Council’s requests, Mayor Chan per-sonally made sure that every one of them was fulfilled. In total, the Council submitted 5 requests and he fulfilled them all. In 2013, he spent less than 50% of the budget as we asked. In 2014, he con-ducted no research as we asked (we rewarded him by endorsing his energy policies). In 2018, he put a stop on Power Plant Upgrades. In 2025, he built government incentives for Residential PV Panels in 2025. And finally, he upgraded the Pele Isles Primary Oil Plant in 2026.

Today, I am a happy mother of 3 children living in an environmentally-friendly apartment in downtown and—thanks to Mayor Chan’s programs—I ride on the city’s bike paths to church, drive to work in my fuel cell car, take a fuel cell bus to yoga, grow organic food on my apartment’s rooftop, heat my apartment with geothermal energy, and produce energy for my apartment through my resi-dential PV panel. No longer do I live guilty of my impact on the environment. That, at least, is some-thing other Canadians cannot boast about.

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Student Report

by Steward Pitt

Although I have only been the President of the Pele Isles Mid-dle School Council for the past four years, I feel that I have the capacity to speak represent all of this middle school students who have studied here since the former Mayor Lyn-don Chan took office in 2010.

Through my experiences as a 9th grade Science student at Pele Isles Middle School, I know pre-cisely why it is important to keep Pele Isles green and environmen-tally friendly. After all, I am ex-tremely doubtful that Mayor Chan would like another nuclear disaster like the one in 1986 in Chernobyl, Soviet Union; another oil spill like the one in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, United States; or another smog attack like the one in 2013 in Chengdu, China.

But in Mayor Chan, I have seen no reason to be disappointed. In 2012, my predecessors asked him not to invest in any technology that lowered our Local Air Quality because we heard the kids in the neighbouring polluted town were suffering from asthma. He did as we asked. In 2016, we asked him to research any Conservation strategy because we heard that conserving energy was just as im-portant as making more of it. He researched Commercial Planning.

Six years later, in 2022, we asked him to invest in any strategy that improved Global Environ-mental Health. He built Commercial PV Panels. The next year, we asked him again to build Fuel Cell Buses so that we could ride to school on them. He was happy to do so.

As a matter of fact, Mayor Chan has done every single good move that he could have done to give Pele Isles the perfect environmental record that it has now. He abandoned the non-renewable energy sources, invested in renewable energy, and successfully promoted conservation. If only all politicians were like Mayor Chan!

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Businessman Report

by Hugh Peyen In business terminology, Mayor Chan would be classified as a “high-risk debtor” - and for good reason. Not only has his budget constantly swung up and down every four or five years, his budget also (for most of his 20-year term) never rose above the 30% mark.

As the chairman of the Pele Isles Business Council, I can personal attest that I was not the only one with the damp hands in our monthly meeting of January 2019, when Mayor Chan’s budget dropped to 1%. Since the Business Council had invested almost 30% of our budget into Mayor Chan’s environmental policies, I thought that our entire investments were done for!

Little did we know then (as we do now), that the budget would pop back above the 20% mark two years later. In-deed, had we sold all of our investments in Mayor Chan’s projects yesterday, the

Business Council would have made a sizable profit and not the enormous loss that we had predicted.

However, while we were initially quite sceptical about Mayor Chan’s financial record, he was superb when it came to responding to our requests. In the course of his 20-year term, we only made two requests. In 2017, we requested that he implement the Green Business Initiatives so that any business that was willing to fulfil a set of “environmentally-friendly targets” would get tax refunds.

Then, in 2024, we requested that Mayor Chan increase spend more than 40% of his budget that year in order to speed up environmental research and development.

Mayor Chan did as we asked in both situations and the returns for our investments were so satisfactory that we could not have even given him more requests if we wanted to.

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100% Green

100% Pele Isles.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PELE ISLES TOURISM BOARD

Scientist Report by Prof. S. Marty

“Tidal and Wind Plants. And, of course, the occasional household PV panels and geo-thermal generators.”

That was twenty years ago, when I—head of the Faculty of Science at the University of Pele Isles—interviewed Mayor Lyndon Chan on his plans for green energy.

“Really? That will reduce our city’s reli-ance on non-renewable energy sources?”

“Not only reduce, it will eliminate our re-liance on non-renewable energy. All we need is green energy production and conservation.”

“But tidal and wind are not even mature yet! Surely you can’t ignore nuclear, biofuel, natural gas, and clean coal!”

I was dumbfounded. Nuclear and biofuel were the fad in those days and so much depend-ence on tidal and wind sounded too risky to me. They’d never produce enough energy, I thought, and they’d cost way too much.

But now it is the year 2030 and Mayor Chan has retired. The City of Pele Isles is one of the greenest cities in Canada and the City’s wind farm and two tidal plants have produced enough energy to export to neighbouring cities.

Evidently, Mayor Chan had proved me wrong.

But how could just using tidal and wind generators with household solar and geother-mal go so far? And what was wrong with nu-clear, biofuel, and the others in the first place?

First, let’s compare all the energy produc-tion methods available to Pele Isles:

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The Rejected Energy Methods Nuclear: Most efficient method, high initial costs and very high operating costs, abso-lutely no CO2 emissions, absolutely no pollution during use but very high levels of pollution dur-ing construction (also consider its health risks, security risks, and non-renewability)

Natural Gas (and Upgraded Natural Gas): Very inefficient method (3rd least efficient), extremely cheap, highest CO2 emissions during operation and construction, and enormous pol-lution (2nd most damage) (consider that Natural Gas is tied as the 2nd most expensive method to research and that an upgrade eliminates all CO2 emissions but pollution remains the same)

Geothermal: Least efficient method, somewhat expensive to build but cheap to operate, absolutely no CO2 emissions during operation and construction, and enormous pollution during construction (tied for 3rd) but absolutely no pollution during operation (consider that Geother-mal is tied as the 2nd most expensive method to research)

Oil Burning (and Upgraded Oil Burning): Average efficiency, quite cheap to build but ex-pensive to operate, high CO2 emissions during operation and construction, and most pollution during operation and construction (consider that there are already enough oil plants to support Pele Isles, but that an upgrade does not change oil burning’s environmental performance and barely increases efficiency)

Biofuel: Highly efficient method, low operating costs and low initial costs, no initial local air quality damage but high local air quality damage per use, no global environmental health damage whatsoever (consider that biofuel uses up more energy, water, and land overall to grow the biomass needed than oil or coal burning does)

The Accepted Energy Methods Tidal: Very efficient method (tied for 3rd), extremely expensive to build and to operate (the highest

for both), absolutely no CO2 emissions during operation and construction, and no pollution dur-ing operation but a bit of pollution during construction (consider that Tidal Plants often disrupt the fishing industry and that Tidal costs the most in total to research since Hydroelectric and Tidal Resources must be researched)

Wind (and Upgraded Wind): Highly inefficient method (tied for 2nd worst efficient), very expensive to build (2nd most) but cheap to operate, no CO2 emissions during operation and construction, and no pollution during operation but significant pollution during construction (consider that the turbines of wind farms often kill many flying wildlife, that there is only one suitable spot in Pele Isles and that an upgrade is quite costly but boosts efficiency to average levels)

So why did Mayor Chan choose only Tidal and Wind Power? Well, I suppose the main reason was because they were abundant in Pele Isles and they were the only feasible green options. In other places, I suppose that Tidal and Geothermal may have been good choices. On the other hand, Nuclear was clean but s non-renewable; Natural Gas was cheap but too polluting; Oil Burning was well established but neither cheap nor environmentally-friendly; and while Biofuel was efficient and cheap, it emitted too much CO2. Mean-while, Tidal was efficient and completely environmentally-friend (although very expensive) and Wind was cheap and completely environmentally-friendly (although very inefficient). It was the perfect combination.

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How to reduce your Eco-logical Footprint By Lyndon Chan As you probably already know, as of yesterday, I am no longer the Mayor of Pele Isles. I have enjoyed the 20 years that I have been your Mayor and I am proud to say that the City of Pele Isles has accomplished something that other Canadian cities will now look up to: our 100% environmentally friendly, renewable, and self-reliant energy profile.

As a matter of fact, the Statis-tics Board of Pele Isles just released the 2030 report of their famous National Environmental Report last week. If you get the chance to read it, notice that conservation reduced an entire 25% of our energy needs! That means that the City is 25% less vulnerable if one of our Tidal Plants or Wind Farms malfunc-tions. That means that we can sell 25% of our energy production to neighbouring cities like Toronto or Montreal. That means that we have the best conservation record in Canada, even trumping the long-time champion of Victoria, BC by 2%.

But don’t get me wrong. All this could not have been done without the support of you: the loyal and conscious Pele Islander. Had I not received your support for the Bike Paths, Fuel Cell Cars, Residential PV Panels, and other conservation initiatives, the City’s environmental record would surely be completely different. However, I must warn us all against complacency in our environmental mindset. While we lead Canada in environmental record, there is always something to improve on. That 25% can always get higher. Last night, I received dozens of let-ters concerning my resignation but not one of them was about how the average resident was to continue improving their environmentally-conscious lifestyle.

And that’s precisely the reason why I am writing this article. If every single human on this earth followed the lifestyle that I will describe in the following pages, then statistics show us a very positive image: we could live on only 0.34 Earths. Of course, I highly doubt humanity will ever get to this point, as it is a very demanding plan.

But, as you will see, it is a plan well worth trying to follow...

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If humanity lived on only

0.34 Earths,

then...

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Housing

Live in a Temperate or Mediterranean climate

Live in the Inner City (since dense urban life places less strain on public infrastructure)

Live in a home of 50-100 square metres

Live in a home built with recycled materials, sus-tainably-harvested wood, and green design fea-tures

Have second-hand, recycled, or sustainably-produced material home furnishings

Install compact fluorescent light bulbs, energy efficient appliances, extra insulation, and other energy saving features

Install low flow toilets, low flow shower heads and faucets, Instant sink heaters, Rainwater re-taining system, and other water saving features

Transportation

Travel a total of 16,000 kilome-tres per year (10,000 in Automo-biles and 6,000 by bus; avoid un-necessarily flying in airplanes)

Travel by carpooling in a hybrid car

Lifestyle Habits

Turn off the lights when leaving rooms, use power strip lights, turn off computers when not in use, dry clothes outdoors, and other energy saving habits

Compost our organic waste, minimize shower time and toilet flushing, run clothes and dish washers only when full, and other water saving habits (since saving water lowers environmental strain on agricultural irri-gation and freshwater wildlife)

Recycle almost all of our Paper, Aluminum, Glass, Plastic, and Electronic Waste

Fill less than one garbage bin per week for our house-hold

If we all lived perfect

ecologically conscious lifestyles, we would have to ...

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Spending

Always use biodegradable or non-toxic cleaning products (using toxic products contaminate water supplies and marine wildlife when improperly disposed of)

Use things until you actually need to replace them

Always buy recycled, natural, and organic paper and clothes

Food

Be a Vegan if you can (a vegan diet strains the environ-ment less than a carnivorous diet)

Obtain your food from local markets (this re-quires less packaging and fewer transportation emis-sions)

Select organic and sustainably-produced foods

Eat one large meal and a few light snacks each day

Have a 25 square metre garden to grow your own food (this reduces the environmental impact of industrial agriculture and creates fewer transporta-tion emissions)

Other

Have an annual household income of US$60,000 - 89,000 (having an enormous salary generally means you will have a larger ecological footprint)

Have a household of 4 members (a larger family generally means a larger ecological footprint)

Purchase Carbon Emission offsets from either: At-mosfair, Climate Care, Native Energy, or Sustainable En-ergy/My Climate (Carbon offsets fund ecological projects like forest protection that help reduce carbon emissions elsewhere)

Live in a Large Apartment Building (i.e. 20 or more units)

Derive 100% of electricity from renewable sources

If we all lived perfect

ecologically conscious lifestyles, we would have to ...

BONUS: Why not all energy methods were not created equally efficient (Note: EG stands for “Gravitational Energy”, EK stands for “Kinetic Energy, EM stands for “Magnetic Energy”, ER

stands for “Radiant Energy”, EE stands for “Electrical Energy”, and EC stands for “Chemical Energy”

Tidal: EG from the Moon → EK of Seawater → EK of

Turbine → EM of Generator Coil → EE in Generator

Wind: ER from the Sun →

ET in the atmosphere → EK of Wind → EK of Turbine → EM of Generator Coil → EE in

Generator

Fossil Fuel Burning & Biofuel: ER from the Sun → EC in Ancient Life form (energy is lost through life processes) → ET from Combustion → EK of Turbine → EM of Generator Coil → EE in Generator

Nuclear: Ebinding in reactant particles

→ EK of particles → ET of particles → ET of water → EK of water → EK of Turbine

→ EM of Generator Coil → EE in Generator

Geothermal: ET

from Earth’s Core → ET of Water → EK of Water → EK of Turbine → EM of Generator Coil → EE in Generator

IN SHORT: Because some methods have more steps than others and this results in lost energy

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