Or, “We Don’t Do That Anymore” Our Route to Sustainability

Man Must Subdue Nature Manifest Destiny Get across the continent as fast as we can John Muir – “Blow away”

Kill(er) Whales? Whale Oil for Lamps, ? Right Whale, Bowhead, Baleen Liquid wax Peak Oil: 1845, 18 million gallons Cost more than camphene /blog/8.whaleoil.html

Horses 1,000 lb horse: 50 lbs/day, 10 tons/year, quart of urine “Crossing Sweepers” 1898 first urban planning conference: horse manure 1894 Times of London: 9ft deep by 1950 Conference quit after 3 days, not 10 Feeding: 1.4 tons of oats, 2.4 tons of hay per year 5 acres per horse 15 million acres: West Virginia Henry Ford saved us?

DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichl oroethane Mosquitoes-malaria Lice-typhus Nobel Prize, 1948 Rachel Carson Silent Spring, 1962 EDF, 1964 Banned, 1972

Granny’s Garage, 2005 DDTChlordane Malathion? Zineb

CFC – Chlorofluorocarbons Ozone hole

Ozone Hole

CD Long Box 25-30,000 US record stores $250m to redsign stores 5% theft rate David Byrne

Leaded Gas 1930s: Octane in 30s Lead: 87! Protected Valve seats Catalytic converter problems 1996 banned US $10,000 fine

Ocean Garbage NYC: 12 miles: since miles: Deepwater Municipal Disposal Site Sewage Sludge 1982: quit Now Garbage Patches

Acid rain Sulfur Dioxide SO2 Nitrogen Oxides NOx 1990 Clean Air Act US coal plants

, Feb 2, 1962 ad in Life magazine Humble merged with Standard to become Exxon

Percolate? Drycleaning chemical