Stabilization Wedges/game

http://www.wri.org/chart/wedges-concept

This site offers an introduction to the concept of wedges and the game. There are great visuals that depict the idea of the concept, and the different strategies to complete the stabilization triangle.

http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/concept.htm

This website is informative about ways to practice agriculturally sustainable habits. It focuses on ways to increase sustainability when using certain methods. Also it shows that if certain crops are harvested the sustainability of the agriculture will increase. Additionally different types of animals on a farm can increase sustainability.

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

This site offers a great introduction to carbon capture and storage which is one of the possible wedges that can be used to complete the triangle. It gives a run down of places that have used this for experimentation and what they came up with for results. It also explains the process of carbon capture in a detailed matter.

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=LB

This site gives a description of compact fluorescent light bulbs that account for the consumer efficiency wedge. It turns out that when changing to a CFL you will save about $50 on each lifetime of the bulb compared to a regular filament light bulb. There are some disadvantages when changing them; you must make sure that 2 bulbs in a fixture are of the same wattage.

http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/uses_eletrical.asp

This site also covers one of the wedges in the stabilization triangle which is gas fired power plants. The site discusses the advantages of gas fired plant compared to a coal fired plant. It also discusses gas fired reciprocating engines which was new to me.

Articles:

Christiansen, Jen. "Managing The Climate Problem." Scientific America (2006): 52-57. Print.

This article gives an overview of the idea of the stabilization wedges and how they can be used to keep a cap on our emissions for the future. It shows figures of what the projection of the wedge idea will be outputted. It gives detailed information on most of the options for wedges that would cap our emissions. It also shows the distribution of wealth around the world and relates it to the amount of emissions outputted.

Hotinski, Roberta. "Stabilzation Wedges." Carbon Mitigation Institute (2009). Print.

This article comes with complete directions on how to play the stabilization wedge game in which we played in class. Also it gives a detailed account of all of the possible wedges that would be used to complete the stabilization triangle. It is the most collective and informative information that we got on the topic. There are so many ways that you can complete the triangle so there are endless combinations of alternative energy uses.

Figures:

The process of carbon capture and storage. (http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v33_2_00/research.htm)

The projection for stabilization wedges. (http://www.wri.org/chart/wedges-concept)