Jim Merkel of Dartmouth College on Simplicity

1. Personal Planetoid We each get 4.4 acres Excluding the needs of the estimated 25 million other species

2. Footprints 4.4 Exists 6 Humans use 1 80% wild 0.75 Afghanistan 2 India 3 Global Living Project 4 China 6.25 Mexico 11.5 Spain 13.5 UK 24 USA Footprint – acres Nation or group

3. We are alive at a unique time! Exponential Growth of Population and Consumerism IPAT

4. What will we do about it?

5. 100 Year Plan 0.7 acres 9 Billion Two-child families 6 acres 1 Billion One-child families Footprint Goal with 80 % Wild Projected Population in 2100

8. Quantum Reductions

10. Zero Emission Vehicle

11. #2 Impact Item: Housing (sq-ft. & embodied energy) 1/5 area/person X 1/5 impact/area = Factor 25 $1,500

12. Leveling foundation

13. First bale

14. Peeling rafters from the land

15. Alaska Mill – clear-cut free lumber

16. 1 st of 3 coats of adobe

17. Adobe – clay, sand, lime and a pinch of concrete

18. Scavenger species in action

19. #3. Impact Item: Utilities One cord of Wood (R45 Walls)

20. Micro solar homestead – Vermont

21. Thermo-siphon solar hot water

22. A solar cooker or a UFO? Playing with renewables demystifies them.

25. Wood-fired cob bread oven

27. Hand washing clothes

28. #4 Impact Item: Diet Localvore Food Factor 25 Vegan 1/15 – 1/30 Local/Organic --¼ - ½ Organic -- ¼ -½ Veganic

29. WINTER Root Cellars Sprouting Grains Canned and Dried Syrup FALL Wild Edibles Garden Root Cellars Canning/Drying Fermenting SUMMER Wild Edibles Garden Canning/Drying SPRING Wild Edibles Root Cellars Purchasing (for Winter) Sprouting

30. Root cellar Stores vegetables for 6 months without energy

31. Rutabaga wrestling Sunday entertainment

32. Sometimes you just have too many carrots

33. Sprouting – live food all winter. Peas Lentils Alfalfa Fenugreek Sunflower seeds Mung beans Radish

35. Harvesting rye

36. The threshing floor

37. Winnowed winter rye

38. February’s Blueberries

39. Gathering wild foods

40. Wild Sandwich

44. Barbequed road kill deer

45. Sandy likes it!

48. The Global Living Project Medicinal plant workshop Making tinctures

49. Sustainability Must Become the Default Option Easier And Less Costly

50. Dartmouth College’s first Sustainability Coordinator

53. Dartmouth’s CO2 Emissions

54. Cash Flow for implementing Carbon Neutrality at UCSB $1 Million/yr. Positive Cash Flow

56. Learning from Nature

59. Tending the inner fire

60. Sustainability asks us to look at the world differently.

61. Can we take back some Proxies?

62. Is it possible to meet some of our needs without Corporations and Oil?

63. But… How will we get around?

64. Who will feed us?

65. How will we stay warm?

66. Where will the sweetness for life come from?

67. In 1939 Gandhi concluded, You cannot build non-violence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

68. The Winner? Most fun @ the smallest footprint.