"Opportunities for Common and Balanced Sustainability"

Sustainability Water Energy Nexus Third National Climate Assessment Draft Heat Bioremediation Fossil with Renewable Collaboration

Signal HillGreen City ReportThe Sustainable City Committee

Land use in Signal Hill is broken down into the following

categories:

Commercial - 21% Industrial - 39%

Open space - 2% Public / institutional - 3%

Residential - 35%

SCC

The City of Signal Hill Sustainability Committee is committed to striking a balance between economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental well being by partnering with our neighbors, business, and the community

to provide a healthy and enduring environment for future generations.The purpose of the committee is to develop and recommend a sustainable

framework to the City of Signal Hill City Council that promotes environmentally friendly practical objectives

Pragmatic sustainable value

Sustainability factors

http://biomass.ucdavis.edu/files/events/2010-cbc-forum/mckinney.pdf

Water Energy Nexus

Draft Third National Climate Assessment Regional Demo

Graphics

http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-fulldraft.pdf

1,445,400 kWh impact

Heat

Description of a “vicious spiral” of warming in Southwest cities that could lead 7 to serious increases in illness and death due to heat stress. This spiral shows how more 8 heat waves can lead to increased occurrence of electric power brownouts and outages, 9 which in turn reduce the availability of life-saving air conditioning. Shown in green 10 above are various response options, such as increased use of more efficient architectural 11 practices, more reflective building and paving materials, low water-use landscaping for 12 shading, alternative energy, smart electric grid technologies, and improved public 13 awareness, which can reduce vulnerability.

http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-chap20-southwest.pdf

Islands in the Sky

Urban Heat Islands- Hot Cities

An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities. The temperature difference usually is larger at night than during the day, and is most apparent when winds are weak. Seasonally, UHI is seen during both summer and winter. The main cause of the urban heat island is modification of the land surface by urban development which uses materials which effectively retain heat. Waste heat generated by energy usage is a secondary contributor. As a population center grows, it tends to expand its area, and increase in its average temperature. The less-used term heat island refers to any area, populated or not, which is consistently hotter than the surrounding area.

http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-chap28-adaptation.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_islands

Reflective surfaces (geoengineering)If all urban, flat roofs in warm climates were whitened, the resulting 10% increase in global reflectivity would offset the warming effect of 24 Gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, or equivalent to taking 300 million cars off the road for 20 years. This is based on the fact that a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) white roof will offset 10 tons of carbon dioxide over its 20 year lifetime.

Reflective surfaces are artificially-altered surfaces that can deliver high solar reflectance (the ability to reflect the visible, infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun, reducing heat transfer to the surface) and high thermal emittance (the ability to radiate absorbed, or non-reflected solar energy Reflective surfaces are a form of geoengineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roof-albedo.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_roof

Biomass-Bio Remediation Brown to Green

http://www.thefuelfilm.com/learn.php

http://curriculumhub.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Members

Brown into Green

Value Integration of Biomass

http://www.biomassconnections.com/resources.asp

Fossil Fuel with Renewable Adaptation

http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/

Balanced economic value moving towards Neutral CO2 value on oil land

http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/docs/repowering_trackingmatrix_oct12.pdf

Collaborations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signal_Hill_California_1923.jpg

"Opportunities for Common and Balanced Sustainability"

Sustainability Water Energy Nexus Third National Climate Assessment Draft Heat Bioremediation Fossil with Renewable Collaboration

Sustainable communities occur

when individuals adopt a mindset of

stewardship and collaboration in the

pursuit to move beyond what is and transform

what is into what it should be.

The City of Signal Hill Sustainability Committee is committed to striking a balance between economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental well being by partnering with our neighbors, business, and the community