Other Paths to Wander
- Recent;
- The Khoisan our original hunter gathers
- Solarpower viewpoint provided by J. Hawthorne
- Impact of our consumption
- Iceland is the greatest energy user
- China’s use of energy and resources
- FIFA 2014 energy consumption equivalent to 306 million gallons of gasoline.
- Innovation thrives in cities
- Chernobyl; 40B Joules of energy released
- NOAAs satellite view of greenery
- Economic growth and energy efficieny
- Updating Earth’s energy budget
- Oilsands photos
1. Seeing to the Future
| Civilization’s Future | using math to plan the future |
| Live Science | end of oil |
| Seed vault | saving genes |
| Red List | threatened, endangered, extinct |
| World Watch | watching trends to a poor future |
| Die off | natural population cycling |
| Virunga | short term living at long term cost |
2. Autotrophs and the Environment
| Trophic Levels | pyramid of life |
| Earth’s Climatic History | global temperature |
| Primary Production | energy flow through the ecosystem |
| Human Appropriation | energy capture by humans |
| Ice Ages | global temperature |
| Old living life | oldest bacteria |
| Living Planet | global biodiversity |
| Malawi | 3200kg/ha of maize annually |
| ESA | Land Cover |
| Zero Extinction | biodiversity |
| Millenium Seedbank Project | betting against the future |
| Biomass Inventory | Good for people, but what about the current residents? |
3. Consumerism
| The Commons | greed wins |
| Japan’s Population | we exist to consume |
| Singapore’s Population | not enough at 6400 per square kilometre |
4. Infrastructure
| Alternate Lifestyles | a small impact |
| 20 year $60Bn capital cost energy procurement | a large impact |
| Tar sands | Energy to extract energy |
| Egyptian pyramids | Energy to build |
| Net zero | Home’s electrical consumption and production equals |
| Kuwait | Energy shortage |
| Canadian Energy Flow 2003 | Layous out human allocation of energy |
| Energy Supply-Demand 2003 (pdf) | Consumption up, reserves down, same story |
| American Housing Survey | More than simple shelter |
| Industrial energy allocation, Canada | Efficiency improves but baseload still high |
5.Renewables
| Pigs | following the energy trail |
| InterAcademy Council | sustainable energy demand, efficiency and supply |
| Renewables | energy for humans takes energy from others |
6. Technology
| Thin film solar | 19% efficient |
| Solar homes | a long way to self sufficiency |
| Ice Farming | freezers of the past |
| Splitting water | energy storage |
7. Trends to the Future
| Biological Efficiency | energy needed to civilization level |
| National Geographic | sources for future energy |
| Millenium Assessment a goal | a global direction |
| Kardashev | energy needed to civilization level |
| Hydrogen Fuel | cars and gas |
| Population growth | how many’s enough |
| World clock | watch the numbers change |
| Kuwait energy shortage | when the wells run dry |
8. Resources/Documents
| Energy Processes | wood cord – 1010 joules |
| Wood Density | spruce 450 kg/cu.m |
| Energy Bulletin | opinions |
| BP’s Review | raw numbers on annual primary consumption |
| Energy Density | energy content for some |
| FAO | Energy in food |
| Oil Crisis – Laherrere | a trend watcher |
| Contracting for power | home solution |
| Energy conversion | plants to joules |
| Ancient Egypt | 300 kg wheat per person annually |
| Growth is Madness | John Feeney |
| The Updside of Down | Thomas Homer Dixon |
| The Earth’s Carrying Capacity | Bruce Sundquist |
| Fertilizer | Natural gas becomes food |
| Life Expectancy | a cause for fewer people |
| Earth Trends | World Resource Institute |
| Earth Trends | Energy and Resources — Sudan (pdf) |
| Green Revolution | India’s gambit |
| DOE | Annual Energy Consumption |
| National Science Foundation | Weighing trees |
| National Park Service | Red brick school house |
| National Stone Centre | Limestone |
| Red Hill Vallely | Trees per hectare |
| Alberta | Forest Management |
| South Africa | Forestry |
| Alaska | Above ground tree biomass (pdf) |
| BTCV | firewood |
| Sugar Maple Tree | statistics |
| Tree Volume Estimation | Doyle’s Rule |
| Ohio State University | Measuring Standing Trees |
| Standing Biomass | NPP of Oak and Pine |
| NPP | Spruce |
| Jeff Brokaw | Tree Calculators |
| Virgiana Tech | Measuring Standing Trees and Logs |
| NRCan | Canada’s Forests by area |
| Industry Canada | Canada’s Land Area |
| Rosiere | Range lands |
| Senate Subcommittee | Boreal forest at risk |
| Canada | Annual area of tree harvest |
| Canada | National Forest Inventory |
| Food and Agriculture | Atlas |
| Food and Agriculture | Statistics |
| Globalis | Energy Consumption per Person |
| Predator-prey | Lynx and Hares |
| Falklands | Penguins |
| North Devon | Smelting |
| Cornwall | Iron furnace |
| Pennsylvania | Cornwall Iron furnace |
| Tyson | Making swords |
| Steel | Smelting temperatures through the ages |
| Open fire | 300 degrees |
| Switzerland | Statistical Data 2007 |
| Switzerland | Demographics |
| Environmental History | Forests through the ages |
| Williams | History of Deforestation |
| Mcneill | Woods and Warfare |
| DEFRA | Sustainability and statistics |
| Energy Consumption in the UK (Pdf) | space heating is 58% |
| Energy and Environment Basics | charcoal to coal replacement value |
| Energy in natural processes (pdf) | Washington U |
| University at Buffalo | Niagara Falls Energy |
| IDRC | The Responsiblity to Protect |
| Oil Drum | Energy in South Africa |
| New York Observer | $38B bonus |
| Public Accounts Canada | $48B non financial assets |
| Fertiliz Industry | statistics |
| YARA | Fertilizer benefits |
| Europe(pdf) | Energy allocation in farming |
| Home and Garden Bulletin Number 72(pdf) | Energy in food – USDA |
9. Newsworthy
| Near Zero Carbon Emissions | Carnegie Institute |
| Darfur to Chad | Mass human migration |
| Sudan | The environmental cost of charcoal |
| Tobacco (pdf) | Necessity or luxury |
| Land appropriation | Eye from space |
| Liberty | who decides |
| Equality | the sloth and the euridite |
| Lack of food energy (jpg) | Madras |
