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Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning

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Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of ReckoningJim Wilson/The New York Times

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is tunneling under Lake Mead to install an intake valve that could continue operating until water levels dropped below 1,000 feet.

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Ton of CO2

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Ton of CO2
CommentaryWhat Does a Ton of CO2 Look Like?

March 10th, 2008 by jayb

Dave Ames, a science teacher at Cohasset High School in Cohasset, Massachusetts built a large cube that represents the size of 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Take a look.

OK, yes.  CO2 (carbon dioxide) is invisible.  But it's still interesting to see how much space a ton of CO2 would take up if it were sitting in front of you. 

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Day 15 - Top 5 Options For Energy Sustainability - A Grapical Synthesis

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Top 5 Options For Energy Sustainability - A Grapical Synthesis

  • How are these strategies sustainable?
  • How are these strategies not sustainable?
  • What are the assumptions? Implications? Biases?
  • How is this a consumer pull? A government push? A producer profit-driven strategy?

 

  • Iterating your work and incorporating questions raised
  • Crystallizing your point of view
  • Documenting it all
     

Day 14 - A comprehensive integrated platform for local and region-wide energy and water policies for the next 20-30 years.

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A comprehensive integrated platform for local and region-wide energy and water policies for the next 20-30 years

  • How are these options sustainable?
  • How are they not sustainable?
  • What are the assumptions? Implications? Biases?
  • How is this a consumer pull? A government push? A producer profit-driven strategy?
  • How are different Personality Styles addressed? Different Communities? Different Cultures?

 

  • Working the gaps revealed in the dialogue
  • Developing the draft Synthesis for the Day

Day 14 - Apply Metrics to Energy options

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Apply Metrics to Energy options

  • How are they sustainable?
  • How are they not sustainable?
  • What are the assumptions? Implications? Biases?
  • How is this a consumer pull? A government push? A producer profit-driven strategy?
  • How does this address the human element? Political realities?

 

  • Teams Report Out

Day 14 - Apply Metrics to Water options

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Apply Metrics to Water options

  • How are they sustainable?
  • How are they not sustainable?
  • What are the assumptions? Implications? Biases?
  • How is this a consumer pull? A government push? A producer profit-driven strategy?
  • How does this address the human element? Political realities?

 

  • Teams Report Out

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