Define the difference between energy and power and give an example with kWhr and kW.

What is a negawatt? Why is this an important concept for environmental science?

Define the "rebound effect" and explain why this is essential to consider for energy efficiency effects. Give both a human behavior and economic perspective.

The purpose of accounting is to create a system to collect information needed to make decisions. Give an example of a type of envionmental decision you might want to make, the observations necessary, report or data made available, and how you would use that process to make a decision.

In lecture we discussed four example of accounting for enegy use. An important distinction in all of these3 examples was between higher embedded energy in a structure vs. lower operation energy (and vice verse). Explain the difference and give an example.

Would you rather have a house that was energy efficient or took less energy to build? How would you decide? What other factors might be important for your decision?

Aluminum production a good example of the trade-off between mining ore and recycling. What are the steps in aluminum production or recycling? Which steps take the most energy?

Describe the components of a ecological footprint for cars. Why is the role of the road, repair and land important to consider.

In ecological footprint or carbon footprint, what is the purpose of converting everything to the amount of arable land required to take up that amount of CO2 from the atmosphere?

In the controversy (or distorted news) between the cost of running a Prius or a Hummer, what were some of the critical assumptions that favored the Hummer?

What is a Life Cycle Analysis? What specific information is required to create an LCA for an automobile?

What is the "genuine progress indicator" and give one reason why this is preferable to GDP for making environmentally friendly decisions.

Give an example of how you would use the GPI to make a decision. What information would you need to make this decision?

Happiness (pretty much the same as life satisfaction or individual well-being) leads to optimism, trust and taking a longer time-scale view. Why are these important for the environmental, i.e. why are happier people likely to have a lower environmental impact.

Describe the steps in the accounting system and make up an example to illustrate each step.

Define "ecological footprint". Why is it given in area?

Why is "regenerated" energy a better name than "renewable" energy?

What are some costs that would be counted as part of the GDP but are not in the Genuine Progress Indicator?

List four forms of renewable energy and give an advantage and disadvantage of that particular form of power generation.

Nic Marks studies the Happy Planet Index. The HPI is the ratio of what other indicators.

What is the general relationship between HPI and effects on the planet? What is the goal for having an optimum HPI?

Describe, briefly, how Maryland uses the GPI.

The simulations are in the Maryland GPI link. Please explore what the individual effects of "green jobs", "clean energy" and "green jobs" and what is the advantage to the state if they invest in all of these?

Which of these factors gives the most return over the next 20 years?

How could you imagine using these simulations to argue for these investments?

Analysis and Synthesis questions:
These are the type of manipulations you should be able to perform; parse out the parts of the question, remember or find concepts that are useful, and then put those together into a coherent answer.

This is a 3 point question on the quiz, so it's worth thinking about.

What are some factors that you'd want to consider when deciding whether to invest in decreasing energy use in a factory? How could you use indicators such as GPI to help look at more than just direct monitary savings?

Compare three ways to account for energy: actual energy use, cost of energy in dollars, or equivalent land space (i.e. footprint). What are good and bad aspects of each form of tracking. Which do you think would be most valuable method for assessing loss of biodiversity from palm oil plantation (to create biofuel)?