Minimizing Impact-

• renewable resources-
  • power, water
• recycle/eliminate/minimize/reuse:
  • waste
• self-containment- isolation
  • minimize environmental footprint
  • city dependent solely on city and not effect anything else
• location must be optimized
• minimize impact of farming animals
  • why have livestock? eliminate need for it
    • get rid of the goats or go somewhere else
  • effects sources of food and income, livestyle
• but also remember political issues with any actions taken -> choose your battles wisely
  • ppl don't like change
• use effectively "inert" building materials
• educate the natives about environment
• make the natives part of the decision-making process
  • how to make this program succeed
• provide incentives to leave the galapagos and disincentives for moving to the galapagos
• move the tourism economy -> move tourism workers (give tax breaks if move)
  • but tourism = money = political power

Idealized Village:

• arguments against seperate island:
  • each island have specific species
  • concentrate pollution
  • consider their society already built there
    • use example of US nat'l parks, kicking out ppl
  • people would still go to non-populated islands
    • and will need transport
• for seperate island city
  • already airforce base
  • was once part of santa cruz so have same species
• or floating city
  • less environmental impact
    • more impact on water, less on land
  • but expansion problems
  • probs with el nino
  • waste distribution into the ocean?
  • if drown-> very bad impact on ocean
• limit increasing residents
  • and enforce it!
  • make less incentives (less subsidies, why are they there and what are they for anyways?)
• desalination facilities can be floating and can go from island to island

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This web page created by Jill A. Rowehl

Email the author at ig3@mit.edu

Last Edited on Wednesday, 20-Oct-2004