Climate Action TeamTraining Series

Session #1:Introduction

Julio Magalhães, PhDGlobal Warming Program Coordinator

Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club

Participant Introductions

Name ?

City ?

Working for Low-Energy Practices

Human Energy

Behaviors

CO2

Fuel Demand

Climate Change

Energy Insecurity

“Simplicity & Scalability”

Curriculum HistoryJulio Magalhães, PhD

Global Warming Program CoordinatorLoma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club

Kakoli Banerjee, Brenda Eberle, Nicole Kemeny

CAT Program VolunteersLoma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club

Carrie Armel, PhDMarilyn CorneliusPrecourt Institute for Energy EfficiencyStanford University

Dr. Tom RobinsonStanford University School of Medicine

Developed a high school curriculum

Adapted Stanford Precourt Energy Institute high school curriculum to adult population and to groups

Overview of Today’s Session

1. Basic Information:

“Why Reduce Energy Use?”

2. Activity: “Visualizing CO2 & Impacts”

3. Observation Worksheet: “Cheers for what you are already doing”

4. Group Project: Impacting Others…

5. Conclusion / Action Items

6. Questions

Basic Information:Why reduce energy

use?

Reduce Climate Change

Arctic Polar Cap Change: 1979- 2002

Fort Point Sea Level Record

Wildfire increases

Sea Level Rise

Increase Energy Security

64% of crude oil (petroleum) is imported !

Becoming a National Security issue

U.S. Petroleum Production & Imports

Save Money

Increase Health

Using energy generated from fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal) means more air pollution…

Be “Just” to All

Climate change, energy prices, air pollution have bigger impacts on the poor….

“Environmental justice”

Activity #1:Balloon Exercise

How Many Balloons Equal 1 pound of CO2 ?

1 lb CO2 =

(weight)

230 1-liter balloons (volume)

CO2 Emissions Due to Human Activity

1850 1900 1950 2000

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Fossil fuels (GtC)(Mann et al, 1999)

Land-use change (GtC) (Houghton, 1996)

Atmospheric CO2 (rescaled)

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Projections of future CO2 levels

Source: Climate Change 2001, IPCC

Scenarios

A unique time…

Activity #2:Visualizing

the Effect of CO2

The Greenhouse Effect

“Atmospheric Physics 101” !

Balloons & Flashlight Activity

Forming Climate Action Teams

Form Climate Action Teams

1. CAT members will work together during the training series

2. CAT members will work together to adopt low-energy practices in their personal lives

3. CAT members will work together to have an impact beyond themselves

4. Team size: 3-5 people

5. Choose a name for your team

Observation Worksheet

Observation Worksheet

Write your name & CAT name

Observation Worksheet (backside)

Write team member

names on back-side

Observation Worksheet: Saving Balloons &

Dollars!

Compute group totals & report

Individuals Complete Worksheet

for the past week

Group Project: Expanding Your Impact…

A “Spectrum” of Options

Talking or posting to your social network

Passing along ideas

Showing a CAT video to a group

Doing a full blown training for a group

Other ?

Conclusion

Training Series Schedule

Action Items for Session 2

1. Monitor & record your “Observation Worksheet” behaviors during the coming week

2. Compute your individual & group totals of balloons & dollars saved for the week before Session #1 and for the week between Session #1 and Session #2

3. Please bring electricity bill to next session

Resources Slides and materials available on Google

group:http://groups.google.com/group/lp-climate-action-teams

Additional materials: Vocabulary list, supplementary reading….

Questions?

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