Overview
You have just been hired by the town/city nearest to campus as a community planner. Your
job is to design a sustainable community that will be built on a large section of the city that
was leveled in a massive urban renewal project. This new planned community will have
housing, places to eat and shop, light industry, a school, recreation center, and park. This
will be a complete neighborhood. Know that all of the infrastructure will also be replaced;
this means utilities (electricity, water, sewage) and roads.
Your job is to develop a plan (this could be a PowerPoint presentation, a video or some
other medium. Be creative!) for this sustainable community addressing the technologies
you learned about in the past two modules. For each technology you must:
1. State the technology. Use at least 6 technologies from these resources. Only
select resources that are applicable to Florida.
2. Determine why the technology is appropriate to use in your town/city. Again,
only select resources that are applicable to Florida. For example, geothermal
energy is NOT an applicable choice in Florida. There are no magma
pockets. Be sure to provide evidence to explain your conclusion and reference
data (like maps of solar and wind resources) to support your position.
3. Explain how the chosen technologies will be used to achieve a sustainable
community.
4. Describe the socioeconomic (e.g., costs/benefits, health effects) implications of
the technology.
Reflection
After completing the above, write a paragraph reflecting on how you think this course has
affected your views on either (a) your energy use, (b) community sustainability, or (c)
climate change. You may want to consider how this is relevant to you personally, or how
what you have learned conflicts with your prior understanding.