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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Last Edited on Wednesday, 17-Nov-2004