Pata Azul Productions: February 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Katherine's Section

Problem Statement:

In the Galapagos, problems relative to human presence on the islands are placing the local ecology at risk. Our team hopes to promote awareness, potentially in association with the World Wildlife Fund, regarding the impacts of human activity on the islands. By promoting sustainable energy practices, we hope to educate those who care about the planet in order to encourage Ecuadorian government to support the development of clean energy alternatives in Galapagos.

Action and Strategy:

The intention of this project is to promote awareness of the projects outlined in the Clean Energy Accord of 2003. We would like individuals to become involved and request that the Ecuadorian government continue with its commitment to change the current energy situation on the Galapagos Islands. By switching to green energy sources such as wind and solar power in the Galapagos, we would prevent significant amounts of pollution from being dumped into the air and sea.

We hope to use our time on the islands to accomplish many goals. We want to gain a greater understanding of the local perceptions surrounding the development of clean energy solutions on the islands. We intend to interview locals in order to better comprehend the drawbacks of such an energy transition so that we may address potential solutions. By doing this, we intend to facilitate the progress of projects and organizations in the Galapagos. We also plan to document our activity on the islands by obtaining still images and video clips of the local ecosystem as a means to prove to individuals why such an energy transition is crucial to the health of the islands.

Before going to the Galapagos, we intend to research the progress of the Clean Energy Accord so that we can understand where and why certain programs have not been successful. Once we gain an extensive understanding of the many facets of the accord, we aim to expose the failures and highlight the achievements. By doing this, we hope to inspire those who are interested in the ecology of the islands to support and promote local projects. We also hope that our media project will rouse positive associations with environmental activism on the islands. If we are able to achieve these goals, we may be able to increase the probability that the goals of the accord are demanded by the people and upheld by the government’s funding and support.

Concerns for 'Action and Strategy' section

Hey guys,

I'm working on the Action and Strategy section of the paper and I'm worried that my outline of our goals may not line up with the other sections. I'm going to do my best to crank it out, but obviously it may need to be severely changed during tomorrow's editing session.

I plan to describe our goals as follows: We intend to provide information to interested individuals regarding clean energy solutions on the islands. By doing this, we hope to foster support for sustainable energy projects that could potentially influence future policy-making decisions.

Thoughts?

Part 1 of Policy Paper: Summary and Importance

Our goal is to display wind energy as an efficient, practical, and clean energy solution for the Islands of the Galapagos. While this media project will be created with Galapagueno viewers in mind, we hope it could ultimately gain a wider audience of people who can apply these same methods of clean energy to their own environments.

The Galapagos are treasured for being the cradle of evolution and well as the one of most unique ecosystems on our planet. This has lead to increasing population on the islands as well as sky-rocketing tourism. These large amounts of human activity are responsible for devastating effects on the marine and land ecosystems. In order to preserve these unique islands, it is necessary to find ways to promote positive human activity. It is important that the locals understand the importance of being sustainable and protecting the island. Perhaps with the knowledge of wind energy and how it will be beneficial in the long-term, Galapaguenos can be on board with these new solutions. With the people of the Galapagos adopting these new solutions, perhaps the visitors of the islands will be more willing to utilize these methods near their homes.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Mission Statement

Pollution is one the biggest threats facing the Galapagos today. Pollution is a multi-dimensional, multi-definitional issue which is the unifying thread that ties many interwoven problems. Pollution is everything from air contamination via fossil fuels to physical litter on the island and in the ocean. This not only threatens the endemic species of the islands but also the human populations as well. Many solutions have already been implemented while others have been proposed. These solutions are often just as complex as the problems themselves, if not more.