Climate Change/Mitigation Strategies
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In this section, we assume anthropogenic climate change is well underway and examine what individuals and social structures can do to slow or reverse the trend.
[edit] Community contributions to mitigation
This section highlights some current thinking about how communities might deal with a changing climate. These include encouraging people to live closer to where they work, building up (not out), increasing use of public transportation, increasing recycling programs, more efficient use of water resources, more renewable energy sources, and even "green" urban planning.
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things
- Pacala S, Socolow R, 2004: Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies. Science, Vol. 305, No. 5686, pp. 968-972.LINK
[edit] Individual contributions to mitigation
Here we discuss how personal conservation can help to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
- In the office - computers, printers, windows, etc.
- In the kitchen - appliances, water use, etc.
- Transport - gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, hybrids, and even bikes/walking.
- Lighting - compact fluorescent bulbs, LEDs, OLEDs
- Heating & Cooling
- Alternative energy - Roof-mounted solar panels, personal wind turbines etc
- Alternative Propulsion - Plug-in hybrids.
- Carpooling
[edit] How societies/countries can reduce emissions
- Carbon Sinks - including sequestration
- Public Transport - efficient urban planning, trains, buses, and shared resources
- Renewable Energy - solar, wind, tidal, geothermal
- Nuclear Power - fission now, fusion later?
- Fossil Fuel Economics - Hubbert's peak and making it a plateau (maybe)
