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Notes from class on
Wednesday, 17-Nov-2004
Obj. Updates:
Village:
- waste
- biomass- bacteria break down into methane = fuel
- solar aquatic sytem- clean aqueous waste to be reused as water
- ship out inorganic
- energy
- individual houses get solar power, save up in batteries (hydrongen cells)
- not much energy necessary
- extra power from windmills and biomass
- education
- fishermen, natives, tourists, farmers
- on environmentally safe processes
- through lectures and showing
- work around low literacy rate
- regulations
- fishermen- individual transferable quotas to regulate how many fish
caught
- get fishermen input on how many fish can be caught, how many give
to each fisher
- farming- fence in animals, education on how to treat environment well
- continue to kill goats and take out other invasive species
- need to talk to group 1 about implementing regulations
- find locations for facilities
- making a village that's practical to be implemented
Political:
- NGO's invest money into a big organization named ORGALA, controls the money
- 2 houses: Representative Board and Scientific Panel
- Representative Board- votes weighted by money contribution, most influence
can have is 10%, on a non-linear scale (maybe square-root)
- Scientific Panel- 1 vote, 1 scientist chosen by NGO
- will hold greater lobbying power, control all the money together, unified
policies
- still preserves internat'l sovereignty
- currently: NGOs put indiv pressure on govt through moneys
- fisherman regulations: transferable quotas, give a fraction at beginning
of season, pass out rest over the season based on how much catching and obeying
regulations
- executive director in charge of distributing money
- all NGOs must be non-profit, assumed to be environmentally friendly
- abuse of lobbying power?
- entry at beginning based on history of donations, entry of new NGOs to be
voted on by the congress
- also need policies to kick bad people out
- why would anyone big (ie. CDF) join in the first place?
Environmental Sensors:
- goal: monitor sustainability of the solution to mission 2008
- sensors underwater, relay info to boats passing over or to buoys, use transponders
- can keep track of boats, hopefully tell how long boat stayed in a place
(fishing)
- some sensors for environment and some for inorganic
- can go off of foodweb for more complicated issues
- collect pollen and analyze that
- monitor biodiversity? analyze type of pollens, tells plants
- base data- climate(rainfall, wind, temp)
- urban data- sewage leakage, heavy metal pollution, air pollutant, hydrocarbons,
soil acidity
- tiny battery operated sensors
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This web page created by Jill A. Rowehl
Email the author at jillar@mit.edu
Last Edited on
Wednesday, 17-Nov-2004