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Georges SeuratAfternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886

Chris Jordan

Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

"Our world has enough for each person's need, but not for his greed."- Mahandas

Gandhi

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.

Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.

Waste

• The average American produces about 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, or a total of 29 pounds (13 kg) per week and 1,600 pounds (726 kg) a year. (EPA)

• The United States produces approximately 220 million tons of garbage each year.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Albatross (September, 2009, on Midway Atoll)

Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute

from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).

Depicts 30,000 reams of office paper, or 15 million sheets, equal to the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes.

The US consumes 19,500,000 bbl/day

Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes.

UNITED STATES’ OIL DEPENDENCE

• 5% of the world population--consume approximately 25% of the world’s oil. • Oil imports: 60% of oil supply; 1/3 of national trade defecit.

$1 billion of trade deficit costs America 27,000 jobs.

• Loss of 828, 400 jobs

• $97 billion each year on oil imports.

• An average of 600,000 barrels of petroleum oil a year is accidently spilled from tankers transporting fuel.

• Death and disease caused by polluted coastal waters costs our global economy $12.8 billion a year.

Depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), theamount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.

On what could the US spend an extra $ 100 billion a year?

• The United States spends approximately $97 billion each year on oil imports.

• Aid to Israel and Egypt ($5 billion)

• Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (since 2001) $1,000,032,300,000

The Price of Oil

est. 100,000+ civilians; 4,693 Coalition Forces

Oil and our Industrial Food Industry

• 1909 Haber-Bosch Process– Heat (Electricity) / Hydrogen (Oil, coal, natural gas)—fossil fuels

• Germany’s supply of Nitrates from Chilean mines are cut off.– WWI: poison gases—ammonia and chlorine possible; WWII: Zyklon B

• 1947 Munitions plant in Muscle Shoals Alabama (Ammonium Nitrate)

• 400 gallons of oil are used to feed each American (fertilizer, field machinery, transportation, irrigation,...)—17% of US energy use

• 1,500 miles

• Why fossil fuel energy? – “Cheap” oil – Good economic sense (bad sustainable sense)

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. " - Thomas Edison

Monoculture• Mayan – “corn people”

• US--$5 billion /year subsidizing corn– BUYERS subsidy

(Cargill and Coca Cola)

• Modified / Unmodified starch, glucose syrup, maltodextrin, crystalline fructose, asorbic acid, lecithin, dextrose, lactic acid, lysine, malose, HFCS, MSG, polyols, caramel color, xanthan gum

“Dead Zones”

Food Waste

• More than 40 percent of all food produced in America is not eaten

• More than 29 million tons of food waste each year

• Food scraps make up 17 percent of landfills. • Wasted food costs America more than $100

billion annually (about $600 / household)

Oil Waste

• The US produces over 1.4 billion gallons of used cooking oil and animal fat each year.

• Approximately 74% of the inedible tallow and

grease produced in the US each year goes into animal feed.

Solutions• Reduce population– Malthusian Catastrophe• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

• Reduce Consumption• Reuse Waste• Recycle (???)

REVOLUTION

• Monumental Problems…Simple Solutions

• If every US citizen ate just one meal a week composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.

What Can I Do?Reuse our waste!

• Vermicompost: – Reuse Waste Paper, Food, Manure for Fertilizer• Examples: Bins, Trays, Trough, Wind Row

• WVO: – Reuse Waste Oil for Fuel• Examples: Single Tank and Dual Tank Conversions

Veggie Car

• Diesel Engines• Viscosity• Emissions• Existing

Technologies• Reuse Waste• Local, Awareness

and Perspective

Vermicompost

• E. fetida include: red wiggler

• 1/2 total worm weight in waste per day

• Microorganisms in Castings

• Reuse Waste

• Local, Awareness and Perspective

• “These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.