Plan C: Curtailment and Community

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Plan C Curtailment and Community

• Empire to Earth Community
• Columbus, Ohio
• March 31, 2007
• Presented by
• Pat Murphy
• Executive Director
• Community Solutions
• Producer The Power of Community

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Defining the Problem Peak Oil

• Peak Oil is a crisis that is very close
• Peak likely before 2010 oil consumption
  declines

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Defining the Problem Climate Change

• Worlds temperature hottest on record last year

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CO2 Concentrations Growing

• Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations highest in 400,000
  years

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Defining the Problem Record Inequity

• U.S. inequity growing 2005 top 20 took 50
  income

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Energy, CO2, Equity Correlation

• U.S. (5 of pop.), OECD (10 of pop.), ROW (85
  of pop.)
• 300 million people use 56 boe/capita yearly
• 1 billion people use 30.6 boe/capita yearly
• 5.4 billion people use 7.3 boe/capita yearly
• U.S. Ratio to ROW 8 to 1

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Energy/CO2 Strategies Technology!

• Plan A Business As Usual new fuels
• Clean coal bury CO2 for children
• Plan B Business as Usual green fuels
• Wind, solar, bio-fuels
• Fuel cells, PHEVs
• Both agree
• Dont have to consume less energy
• Fuels or new sources will save us
• A or B Technology

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Plan C Curtailment and Community

• Sufficiency vs. Abundance principle
• Cooperating and Conserving
• vs.
• Competing and Consuming
• Means Curtailment Cutting back
• Not token conservation
• Need 4-5 per year reduction
• Community Context for a different Way of Life
• Cooperation replaces Competition

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The Big Question Annual BOE

• Can we localize consuming 57 boe
• China 8 boe / India 4 boe
• Do we localize first or curtail first?
• Or do both at the same time?
• Must we measure our efforts in detail?
• You cant manage it
• if you dont measure it

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Community Solution Efforts

• Yellow Springs Village Very liberal
• Working with town council, citizens and
  developers
• Battle over new development
• Got commitment to Energy Star houses
• Council beginning to listen to Peak Oil and
  Climate Change
• Personal change reducing the 57 boe
• Honda Insight (50 mpg) and Bicycle (3 to 1)
• Garden and chickens (eggs) and vegetarian diet (3
  to 1)
• From 1800 sq. ft. house to 600 sq. ft. apartment
  (3 to 1)
• Home Energy Retrofit under way (23 to 1)

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Which Is More Important?

• Yellow Springs
• Have respect of town but little action
• Some movement from developers
• Changing council very slow
• Personal Change
• A much better sense of the difficulty of the
  change
• Like changing diet difficult physically and
  emotionally
• Conclusion
• Must walk the talk first. Modeling a new life
  style is vital
• Changes societal recommendations