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Climate Change: A solution framework for the climate challenge
What sort of impact do each of us make on the environment? How much does the personal decisions about what we do, buy, and eat impact the world? If you’re curious about these things, you’ll want to check out the slides/notes of Saul Griffith who gave a talk on how to engineer solutions for climate change at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference . What was covered? Griffith explains it’s two stories:
The first is the impersonal story told in very big numbers about climate change, global energy consumption, and fossil fuels.The second is the personal story about how every decision you make in your life impacts everyone you share the planet with, and just how big the scale of the energy challenge is.
So the goal is to understand the role each of us play in changing the environment, or in Griffith’s words:
In laying out the logic of this document we hope to give you the tools to rebuild this story as it relates to you. If you disagree with any specific assumption or piece of information, you have the approach outlined here to return to. If you believe global warming isn’t happening at all, this logic is still valid for you. You will merely conclude that nothing needs to be done immediately, and you will walk away with a greater understanding of your own energy consumption, ways to save money, and ways to increase the security of energy supplies as fossil fuel supplies slowly dwindle.
To find out more, go look through the notes and slides (which are quite extensive and well done): The Game Plan: A solution framework for the climate challenge. You can also download the slides and notes (pdf), just the slides (pdf), or just the notes (pdf), or view them online (although it’s a little small online).
Just take a look at the impact of the way we eat, and further, the impact of changing the way we eat:
Go check out the rest: The Game Plan: A solution framework for the climate challenge.
— michael | March 27, 2008 09:41 AM | Something to think about
