What to try and plant for Eliana’s future A Self-sustaining Environ visioned as a lineal, cooperative, rural environs with urban densities, capable of being ecologically and economically self-sustaining with the drawing power to attract at least 125,000 people… willing to participate in a new American project working and growing families while actively contributing to reducing global warming by the way they choose to live.

2. Why Seek Out New Self-Sustaining Environs ?
49% more Americans think they or,
56% of their family will be harmed by global warming.
65% more think global warming will harm people in the U.S.
Climate change in the
American mind: December 2018.
“Urban areas are at risk for large numbers of evacuated and
displaced populations…due to both extreme precipitation
events and recurrent flooding”(1)

3. “…wildfires, heat waves, and
rising sea levels, large tracts
of the earth are at risk of
becoming uninhabitable;”(2)
“..There is no shortage of evidence of chaos..”(2)

4. “This really is
the most
devastating
flooding we’ve
probably
ever had in our
state’s history,”
Nebraska’s gov.
Nebraska March 19. 2019
Do you think living & farming
near large rivers
is going to be
viable much longer if this
erratic weather continues ?
Midwest March 31, 2019

5. In the autumn of 2018, unusually heavy
rainfall — almost 8 inches above the
norm — interfered with harvests.
The year before, a late spring frost killed
off most of the strawberry crop.
And the year before that, farmers
experienced the worst drought
New York has seen since the 1960s.
More Locally in New York
Weathering change: Cornell CALS helps
New York farmers adapt

6. Her name is Eliana and she is 7
Where will Eliana find a safe place to live
in 21 years when she is 28?
By 2040 where will she find things, I take for
granted?
Affordable healthy food,
Clean drinking water,
Reliable energy, and reliable job opportunities,
and a society where people care
about one another and their planet.
WHY DO I CARE ?

7. I am fearful enough to believe Eliana’s survival might
“require changes in human behavior that have no
documented historical precedent” (5)
Each year erratic climate is becoming more and more of a reality

8. Where to plant a future good life for Eliana?
LOCATION! Location! LOCATION!
Even in the US that means starting with:
Right Kind of Land
Survivable temperatures
Good potential sources of food & water.
Flexible lineal approach to rural/urban
environs
Urban pioneers willing to participate
in a new American project.
Avoid
Unsustainable
fantasies

9. What to try and plant for Eliana’s future
A Self-sustaining Environ
visioned as a
lineal,
cooperative,
rural environs with urban densities,
capable of being ecologically and economically self-sustaining
with the drawing power to attract at least 125,000 people…
willing to participate in a new American project
working and growing families while actively contributing to
reducing global warming by the way they choose to live.

10. Why Chautauqua County?
with good drainage & not
adjacent to recurring river flooding
or rising oceans;
that has a potential for future
reliable rainfall with natural
catchment aquifers;
& a future livable climate with lots
of farms and undeveloped land
It makes common sense to locate new urban
Environs in hilly rather then flat lands :

11. Chautauqua County has a good supply of rain and snow now and predicted
The County gets 46 inches of rain, on average,
per year. The US average is 39 inches of rain.
THE County averages 129 inches of snow per
year. The US average is 26 inches (6)
“The recent dominant trend in precipitation
throughout the Northeast has been towards
increases in rainfall...
Further increases in total precipitation
expected during the winter and spring but
with little change in the summer.”(7)
(8)

12. Chautauqua County presently has good and reliable aquifers?
Cassadaga Creek Watershed is
Considered one of the principal
valley-filled aquifers in upstate NY
with a 34 square mile watershed area.(9)
Pollution might eventually be a
problem that needs a solution
A 2002 study stated all sites on
Cassadaga Creek were assessed as
slightly impacted. “Nonpoint nutrient
enrichment from…agricultural
runoff is the likely source.” (9)

13. • There are 235,858 acres in farms, 35% of
• the county’s total acreage.
• The average size of a farm is 142 acres.
• There are 1,648 farms.
• Livestock account for 58% of the total
agricultural sales. Crops account for 42%.
• The average sales per farm is $83,581 in
2009 .(10)
Chautauqua County has the most farms in NY State

14. Daily waste = is 1,883 tons per day.
County use = 500 tons per day+/- for its use.
Remainder comes from out of County.
$300,000 per year “tipping fees” pay for cost
of the Landfill.(11)
Could not handle an increase
population of 125,000 people +/- and
only has about a total of 20 +/- more
years of capacity at the rate it is going
.
Chautauqua County’s a centralized solid waste landfill is a Problem in Need of a
Solution!
Waste Management Landfill area in Ellery

15. 80 miles of shoreline running along Lake
Erie
The Arkright Summit is the first approved
and operating windfarm in New York State
with 48 high-capacity wind turbines.
installed capacity of 78.4 megawatts
(MW)—enough to power approximately
35,000 average New York homes with clean
energy each year.
Chautauqua County has a strong potential for large wind turbines

16. Chautauqua County is the home of the Chautauqua Institute
Famous foundation of culture,
arts, and learning for 145 years.
Could grow with Eliana’s
urbanized environs.

17. Largest town in the County with a
pop. of 30,000+/-.
Former industrial/commercial city on
Chautauqua Lake.
Was famous for furniture building.
Has a SUNY Junior College
Eliana Environs could spread lineally
North and West outside of the city limits
Chautauqua County has Jamestown.

18. • Existing farms and fields are near
the roads.
• Most of the County has Large tracks
of undeveloped second-growth
trees between farmed areas.
• 4% of these wooded areas would be
adequate for housing, schools, &
commercial/lite industry for
125,000 people +/-
Chautauqua County Has a geographical potential for Lineal Urbanized Environs:
Recently
Harvested
house
field
Wooded area
Road House Field Woodlot Woodlot House-field Road

19. Chautauqua County Has Large lots of undeveloped non-farm land available for
lineal urbanization
125,000 people would need 13,000 acres+/-
for roads, housing, commercial & industrial
facilities, schools, medical facilities, etc.
• About the size of Lake Chautauqua.
• County =680,000 acres total;
• 235,858 acres in farms,
• At least 300,000 acres of woodlots.
Eliana environs would cover less then 4% of
woodlots.

20. • working to protect their aquifers,
• being open to growing more diverse foods
with enclosed vertical farming technology (35)
• staying open to renewable energy strategies
Chautauqua County could attract urban pioneers
seeking self-sustaining, lineal, cooperative,
rural/urbanized environs as havens against erratic
climate change.
These urban pioneers would bring with them a growing diversity of year-
round good paying jobs and businesses beyond seasonal farming and tourism.
Eliana will require a partnership with Chautauqua County Residents

21. Striving for Self-sustainability must start with people in Community
appeal to urban spirits willing to embark on a
great collective venture in a rural area who able to vision:
a future in migrating to an emerging
community of their own making;
to live out their daily vocations, be it childcare,
farming, carpentry, the arts, or engineering;
while simultaneously reducing the erratic chaos of global
warming by the way they live and interact with each other,

22. Striving for Self-sustainability will need energy conservation building:
By implementing PASSIVE HOUSE building codes, and contractor
training programs, any new construction for the Eliana environs
would reduce home, school and commercial heating and cooling
by about 80% compared to existing Chautauqua County housing stock
https://www.slideshare.net/richardpedranti/karpiak-mulhall-
passive-house?next_slideshow=1
https://passivehouse.com/index.html

23. Striving for Self-Sustaining cooperative communities will require:
Crop Diversification &
Extending the Growing Season:Balancing a
new world grid:
• Produce food crops year-round
• Sources of production closer to
the point of consumption
• Reduce input costs
• Control growing conditions
with precision

24. Solar and wind farms should constitute
about 50 % of the energy needs of Eliana
Toward the end of its grow out.
Solar farms could be built as part of each
residential / commercial development
on 10-acre tracks
Wind turbines to be located in
isolated area at highest possible
elevation and at least 1250 feet from
any existing or proposed residence.
Striving for Self-Sustainability will require local
renewable sources of energy:

25. Build infrastructure to support a synergy among three important clean
energy technologies: variable renewables (solar & wind) and electric cars
Create an EEC company to lease two-way charging electric cars to
act as MESU (Mobile Electric Storage Units) One car per household-
.
Striving for Self-Sustainability will require stabilizing variable renewable energy:
Average American car is only
driven about 30 miles per day
for a total of 1.4 hours

26. To promote local, year-round supply of varied food groups and farm
employment.
Create a year-round CO2 “sinks” linked to carbon recapture technology
To capture waste heat from waste-to-energy electric systems
https://www.wur.nl/en/wageningen-university.htm
Striving for Self-Sustainability will require symbiotic greenhouse farming:
Vertical greenhouses
growing with LED lighting
Aquaponics
cycle…

27. Establish a member owned Electric Cooperative
(EEC) under the Consolidated Laws of New York,
Rural Cooperative for the benefit of future
members or their heirs.
Create an Eliana Cooperative Capital Fund(ECCF)
to leverage borrowing with long term muni loans.
To construct and maintain new physical
infrastructures to make the Eliana environs of
Chautauqua County as self-sufficient as possible.
Jump-Starting a self-sustaining environment will take:
an Eliana Electric Cooperative (EEC)
Eliana Cooperative Capital Fund (ECCF):

28. Self-sustainability via Eliana Electric Cooperative (EEC):
The Eliana Electric Cooperative (EEC)
would be structured like earlier rural
electric cooperatives with one difference;
• investors, or their heirs, in the ECCF
would be entitled to a first right of
refusal to directly benefit from the
facilities the EEC would build and
maintain. (within a 25 to 30 year
period)

29. To raise funds to enable the Eliana Electric
Cooperative (EEC) to build, maintain and, populate self-
sustaining environs in Chautauqua County.
To promote new cultures to facilitate the physical lineal
interweaving of rural/urban environs into Chautauqua
County
Affirm cooperative, self-sustaining, egalitarian
community, over disparities created by global capital
accumulators.
Accept that not all the residents of the County would
want to participate in the ECCF
The goal of the Eliana Cooperative Capital Fund (ECCF):

30. More pragmatically. ECCF Resources would be used to:
Finance land purchases, MESU’s, the creation new energy efficient codes
and planning standards for housing, commercial, educational
facilities, co-sign on development loans, etc.
Finance the stabilization of renewable-energy sources such as wind, solar,
using MESUs for members of the Eliana Electric Cooperative (EEC)
Finance Waste-to-Energy facilities in Chautauqua County with waste disposal
benefits for all residents and power benefits to bond holders of ECCF
shares.
Finance energy projects designed to protect the land, air, and water in
Chautauqua County from destructive pollutants with residual energy
benefits going to members of the Eliana Cooperative Capital
Fund(EECF)

31. Oakridge Condos Westchester, NY: a study in density
340 units ( about 850 people)on 43 areas +/- which included a 6 acre pond, pool
complex, tennis courts, common areas, preschool, sewage treatment plant and &
10 acres of retail/commercial office space.
Self–sustainability will require controlled growth.
EEC can control growth by “when and who ” they extend utilities
EEC can limit impact on the value of farm lands by only supporting development
in timber areas while preserving integrity and bucolic beauty of a
rural community
Oakridge 23 people per acre
Chautauqua 5 people per acre

32. Self-sustainability requires active regulated attention to reduce pollution
of the County’s land, air, and water and active infrastructure construction
such as:
ECCCF funded & EEC maintained Waste-to-Energy Plants
anaerobic digestion, which breaks down organic matter into
something called raw bio-gas. The bio-gas is then collected
and upgraded to RNG – at pipeline quality – and can be used
as electricity, heat or transportation fuel.
• Full cycle anaerobic digestion of
biowaste-to-energy facilities.
• Full cycle of human waste-to-energy plants
for all new housing and commercial
development .
• Full cycle solid waste-to-energy with carbon
recapture and greenhouse sinks to replace
existing landfill area.

33. Tampera, Finland population 236,000, Waste to
Energy Plant provides district heat (310 GWh) and
electricity (90 GWh) with a capacity of 150 000 tons/year
of waste
Leverage ECCF resources to finance Solid Waste-to-Energy Plant:
• Could process 400,000 tons per year of waste
(enough for 140,000 Chautauqua residents plus
Eliana’s 125,000 proposed population).
Cost $260,000,000+/-for building it, would be paid
with a 30-year muni bond.
• To offset this cost the plant would generate between
54.75 to 65.70 MWh of electricity: enough to
power 26,577 to 31,893 homes ( 66,442 to 79,732
people) or provide about 50% of the residential
needs of Eliana.
• It would be more environmentally friendly for
everybody than what presently exists.

34. Converting Chautauqua County’s Landfill into an Energy-Mountain:
262 ac. actively
used for Landfill
operations
Additional 1350 ac. in
square mostly wooded
owned by County and
private owners
Isolated area for Wind turbines;
area to collect farm and bio-waste for
Anaerobic Digestors to reduce aquifer pollution.
A Waste-to-Energy plant to handle all future solid waste needs of County and
Eliana. Greenhouses for sequestering CO2 and utilization of excess heat.

35. Want to confront your sense of personal
powerlessness to change erratic weather??
Help lead the grounding of a faithful
vision in Chautauqua County as a safer
environ for the Eliana’s in your life
Help start the Eliana Cooperative Capital Fund (ECCF)

36. “Don't let this beautiful
weather fool you into
thinking everything’s fine”
The New Yorker (May 20, 2019) p 40.
Jeffrey vreeland
vreela1@yahoo.com
(914) 523-6664

37. Water treatment and distribution;
Small natural gas microturbines; limited to
viable available carbon recapturing
facilities and vertical greenhouses “sinks”
Reforestation and managed growth of owned
timber areas to increase carbon
sequestration.
Build and maintain a city-wide intra-net and
server farm to support the above goals,
and Internet/telecommunication fiber-
optic cable system.
Other ECCF investment projects:
https://www.wbdg.org/
resources/
microturbines#app

38. References and Resources
(1) Climate change in the American mind. (December 2018) https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/ p 671.
(2) 2018 U.S. Climate Report. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/ “the effects of a changing climate on the economy,
health, & environment of the US will be droughts & forest fires in the West and Southeast. Crop failures in the Midwest &
crumbling infrastructure in the South. Disruption of American exports and supply chains.Agricultural yields falling to 1980s
levels by midcentury.”
(3) UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates (2019) ‘Accelerating’
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
(4) Knight, S. (4/024/2019) The Uncanny Power of Greta Thunberg’s Climate-Change Rhetoric. The New Yorker
(5) Leonhardt, D. (4/14/2019) The Economist’s Dilemma. The New York Times Magazine.
(6) Aquifer data sourced from https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr82113
(7) https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/ (p 671)
(8) http://www.planningchautauqua.com/watershed/index.htm
(9) information sources about pollution https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr82113
(10) Information taken from website of the Cornell Extension. (original document published about 2009
http://chautauqua.cce.cornell.edu/resources /chautauqua-county-farm-facts-brochure

39. (11)data on landfill
(12) http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/faq.html
good source for cost of energy production
(13) https://www.electricchoice.com/blog/electricity-on-average-do-homes/
Average use of energy by state
(14) https://www.swa.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Renewable-Energy-Facility-2-11
Link to Tampera Finland data
(15) International energy Conservation code zone map puts Chautauqua in zone 5
https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IECC2015/chapter-3-ce-general-requirements?site_type=public
(16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMmFnP4PRs video on aquaponic growing
(17) https://www.lumigrow.com/superior-fresh/ lights for aquaponic growing

40. (18) Dealing with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from Anaerobic Digestors https://www.evoqua.com/en/brands/adi-systems/Pages/
biogas-treatment-and-utilization.aspx?stc=ppc300203&utm
_term=biogas%20from%20anaerobic%20digestion&utm_campaign=Industrial+-+ADI+Systems&utm_source=adwords&utm
_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=3118474098&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_cam=1475129676&hsa_ad=282841122867&has
_kw=biogas%20from%20anaerobic%20digestion&hsa_grp=60789078447&hsa_mt=b&hsa_ver=3&hsa_src=g&has
_tgt=kwd-298575830061&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo-mby8X_4QIVwiaGCh1iIgasEAAYAiAAEgLNQPD_BwE
Biogas treatment and Utilization removal of H2S before burning to create electricity ​BENEFITS OF UTILIZING BIOGAS:
​Reduce your plant’s energy costs; Replace conventional non-renewable energy sources; Improve your company’s carbon
footprint; Produce heat and/or electricity on-site under your control: Sell excess electrical power from gen-sets to the
local grid for profit: Create a reputation of being environmentally responsible: Potential to receive financial incentives
to produce green energy. BIOGAS TREATMENT APPLICATIONS: ​Internal combustion engines; Gen-sets; Microturbines;
Fuel cells; Boiler and steam generating systems; Sludge dryers​​​
(19) https://www.regenis.net/features/food-waste-digesters page has a good video on all cycles to compost and fertilizer
(20)Serverson, Kim. From Apples to Popcorn, Climate Change Is Altering the Foods America Grows (April 30, 2019)
New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dining/farming-climate-change.html?em_
pos=small&emc=edit_clim_20190501&nl=climate-fwd&nl_art=1&nlid=35152681c%3Dedit_clim
20190501&ref=headline&te=1

41. (21) Resnick, Brian & Amaria, Kainaz Updated 3/19/2019,
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/3/18/18271101/nebraska-flooding-photos
(20) Smith, Mitch & Schwartz, John. (March 31,2019 ‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees,
and Tough Questions Follow: NY TIMES. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/midwest-floods-levees.html?
action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
(21) https://www.regenis.net/features/ dairy-farm, biowaste anaerobic –digesters
(23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcYApKfHuY video from Bloomberg news on vertical farming and the kale-filled
facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions
-- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm.
Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever? This is the fourth
episode of Next Jobs, a series about careers of the future hosted by Bloomberg Technology's Aki Ito. Host, Producer: Aki Ito
Camera: Alan Jeffries, Brian Schildhorn Co-Producer: David Nicholson Editor: Victoria Daniell Writers: Aki Ito and Victoria
Daniell
(24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLbDOMgtcA Aquaponics is a system for farming fish and plants together in a
mutually beneficial cycle. It solves two major problems facing society, the increasing scarcity of farmland and fresh water.
The Lucky Clays farm in Norwood, NC is taking the science of aquaponics to an amazing new level. 7.55 minutes
(25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB7RYIlS6LQ Promotional video for Nature Fresh Farms in Leamington, Ontario.
This video shows the entire process, from sanitization, to planting, picking, and packing. It also shows some of the advanced
technologies used at Nature Fresh, as well as their high safety standards.

42. (26) https://soilwater.org/about-us/ good data on land use: responsible for erosion control: flood prevention; water
conservation and use; wetlands; ground water; water quality andquantity’; nonpoint source pollution; forestland
protection; wildlife; recreation; waste water management and community development
(27) Chautauqua County Land Area: has a total land area of 680,000 acres, or about 1,062 square miles. The New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation manages about 18,000 acres of land used for reforestation and wildlife
areas. Also, Chautauqua County manages about 1,500 acres as county reforestation areas and parks.
(28) Farming and crops grown in Chautauqua County. The County is in two contrasting physiographic provinces, the Erie-
Ontario Plain province and the Allegheny Plateau province, and thus it supports two different kinds of farming enterprises.
In the plateau province the principal agricultural enterprise is dairy farming. Corn and hay are the main crops, but some
small grain is grown. In 2004, about 38,700 acres was used for hay, 22,400 acres for corn, and 3,866 acres for small grain,
mainly oats. In 1945, contrast, 22,065 acres was used for small grain, 18,912 acres for corn and 104,642 acres for hay.
A moderate temperature, a long frost-free period, and good soils help to make the lake plain province and outstanding
agricultural area. The main agricultural enterprise in this region is growing grapes; however, substantial areas are used for
vegetables, orchard crops or small fruit. Chautauqua County is the leading grape-producing county in New York, with
19,166 acres of vineyards.
In addition to these products, maple syrup is an important commodity in the survey area. Chautauqua County currently is
rated eighth among the counties of New York in the production of maple syrup, with an average annual output of about
15,000 gallons.

43. More than 50 percent of Chautauqua County is woodland; therefore, commercial timber production is a viable industry.
Most of the natural stands are represented by mixed hardwoods dominated by sugar maple, red oak, black cherry, white
ash, and American beech. Many wooded areas have been harvested several times for timber production.
(29) Vertical farming video https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000005080478/aerofarm-vertical-newark.html
Also Aero farm self-promotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woo_kg43RVo 2.37minutes
(30) Alternative to cement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPzERdNh50 This cement alternative absorbs CO2
like a sponge. Also Dutch are using recycle plastic as prefab pavers for road for roads.
(31) Carbon cure entraps carbon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeKUlEOJ0p0 and makes concrete stronger with
less material
(32) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvh62AFYk9A Turning CO2 into oxygen: Scientists change carbon dioxide to
ethanol using the sun – TomoNews. would be good if edited down
(33) maps of Chautauqua Lake Waterfront Revitalization Areas ( WRA) https://docs.dos.ny.gov/opd-
lwrp/LWRP/Chautauqua_Lake/Original/Maps/Chautauqua%20LWRP%20Maps.pdf

44. (34) County planning information ( some good maps) http://www.planningchautauqua.com/index.html
(35) Climate Change Facts: Farming success in an uncertain Climate. ( 2011) Cornell Cooperative Extension.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.cce.cornell.edu/attachments/1173/climate_and_farming_copy.pdf?1405496387
(36) http://www.greenhouse.cornell.edu/crops/factsheets/hydroponic-recipes.pdf
(37) http://chautauqua.cce.cornell.edu/environment/climate-change/climate-change-agriculture
(38) Midwest changing attitudes about global warming
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/30/floods-and-storms-are-altering-american-attitudes-to-
climate-change