Presentation on the environmental, social and economic challenges and opportunities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster in the Gulf Coast.

1. STORM SURGE
Presented
@
Shoreline Community College
Shoreline, Washington
Earth Day
April 22, 2011

3. Society Steeped in Core Sustainability Values

4. Experiential Education

6. Storm Surge

8. The planet is getting hot…
…and we are running out of time!

9. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
“If there is no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do
In the next two to three years will determine our future.”
RK Pachauri

10. There is new and stronger evidence
that most of the warming observed
over the past 50 years is attributable
to human activity.
Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

13. Hurricane Katrina

40. The Costs
• $200,000,000,000 Damage
• 400,000 Lost Jobs
• 60,000+ Residential Homes
• 1,200+ Deaths

41. The Great Recession

42. RX
Tax 2
Wars

43. Banking Policy

45. “Things are looking up, and that is coming
directly form the CEO’s, the owners of the
businesses that are seeing the bottom line.
They are telling us straight up, it is looking
better. I’m seeing an upswing. The end of
last year it really slowed down, and
December, January and February it keeps
going up. We had our biggest month in
February that we have ever had. So, so far
so good the first three months of this year.”
- Doug Vonn, MLS Direct Credit Processing, March 2010

46. Deepwater
Horizon

56. Road Trip
From Seattle to the Gulf & Back

57. Solomon Simone

58. Montrell Dickerson

60. Road Trip
 15 days
 16 states
 7K miles
 20 stories

61. Video

62. Call to Action

64. POWER SURGE!
Solar Biomass Medical
Plugging into Possibilities!
Restoration Housing

65. What’s in a Name?

67. Hope,
Optimism
&
Belief in Possibilities…
Huntsville, AL (aka Rocket City)

68. Check Us Out!!!
www.moontownfoundaiton.org

69. Thank you