One 50 litre tank of tar sands gasoline would require:
150 litres of water (rendered toxic and stored in tailings ponds)
63.1 kg of airborne pollutants
53.8 kg of carbon dioxide
9.4 M3 of natural gas
1,258 kg of earth and forest removed
It's not "just another source" of oil.
Take this ecological footprint quiz: myfootprint.org (link will open in a separate window). While many of us here in Guelph may be below the national average for resource consumption and carbon output, we are still, most of us, way above where we need to be, for long term sustainability.
Be sure to read the "reduce your footprint" page at the end of the quiz.
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Transition Guelph is proud to be Canada's second official Transition Town initiative, joining Peterborough, Ontario, Canada's first, on May 14, 2009. The transition town movement is gaining a strong foothold in Canada and around the world, with over 275 official Transition Towns worldwide and, as of April, 2010, sixteen in Canada (for a complete list, see www.transitionnetwork.org.) Thousands more communities worldwide are in the initial stages of forming an initiative.
Transition Guelph is a group of concerned and active Guelph residents who have come together with the shared vision of building resilience and sustainability into our community in response to the challenges of peak oil, accelerating climate change, and global economic instability.
Our model, and the model of all Transition Towns, is described in The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins (below), which not only explains the challenges we face, but also provides a comprehensive blueprint for creating a richer, more vibrant community through the re-localization of all the services and resources that we need to survive and thrive in a world of depleting fossil fuels, global warming, and increasing instability in the world economy.
It is the aim of Transition Guelph, in collaboration with the other Transition Initiatives in Ontario and across Canada, to encourage our citizenry to become involved and empowered, to offer their own ideas and insights, and pitch in to help create a viable and sustainable future for ourselves, our children, and our children's children.
Thought for the Day
The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent. -- David Holmgrenmore...
We firmly believe that, with dedication and committment on the part of our community, its citizens, leaders and businesses, the serious challenges facing our society today can be met, and overcome, and that we can build a strong, resilient community that is significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.
We urge you to become involved, and bring your talents, your skills and your vision to help us build a better future for ourselves, and our descendants.
To anyone visiting for the first time, please take a few minutes to browse this site and learn more about the transition initiative, the challenges of peak oil and climate change, and about how to create and maintain local resilience and long-term sustainability in our community. Be sure to join our mailing list and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to keep informed of upcoming events, news, and other information of interest!
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