Delaware Green Business Program

Delaware Green Business Project

Sophie Kiendl, Amy Carr

Summary: The goal of the Delaware Green Business Project is to create a Green Business Challenge for the City of Delaware in order to help local businesses to become greener. Our main objective is to decrease energy usage, water consumption and waste and improve the performance of commercial and institutional buildings and their operations. We will work with Delaware business to increase the environmentally business practices will decrease their expenditures. The Green Business Project is a business friendly project and will in no way harm participating businesses. We encourage the entire business community to join us and help create a greener community.

Methods and Results:  At the beginning of the semester Dr. Krygier informed us that we would be doing class projects involving the environmental sustainability of Ohio Wesleyan University and Delaware County. We had to come up with ideas that both would add depth to the project and interested us. Amy came up with the idea of a Green Business Challenge for Delaware Businesses. The idea came from a previous project she worked on in Charleston, which had the same goal of increasing greener business practices in their community. Amy and I worked with Sean Kinghorn to come up with ideas of what we would like to have involved in our green business challenge to make it effective and applicable to the Delaware County business community. We met weekly to ensure that we could provide our participants with the best possible challenge and resources to complete the challenge. We adapted and came up with 37 questions for the participants to complete with 65 points possible. Participants will receive this message upon receiving the challenge. “We have sent you the Delaware Green Business Challenge survey. The survey is meant to give you a baseline of how green your business is and an idea of what areas you can improve in. It includes 50 actions that are necessary for a greener business. Once you have completed the survey your answers are collected and your score is generated. There are a 100 points total 4 tiers of achievements. Tier 1 being the highest level of achievement. See the chart below for a breakdown of points needed for each tier.” Along with the challenge businesses will receive an instruction and resource guide to follow as the complete the challenge. Once each business has finished the challenge we will compute their scores and personally work with them on ways to better their businesses. As well businesses will receive a plaque or certificate showing the public that they have participated (in no circumstances will the businesses scores be shared with the general public, we are here to help not harm!).

As of right now there are no results from our Green Business challenge. This is because we will not implement it until next year. Are first priority will be getting the downtown Delaware Businesses to participate as they are the most involved with the OWU community and then expand from there (below is an image of our target area). But we are glad to hear that there are businesses that want to participate.

Recommendations:

We feel that we have a good foundation for the project and it will be easy for those who will take on the project next semester. In order for the project to continue into next semester there are a few things that must be accomplished. The first is involving the city, possibly talking to the chamber of commerce. With the approval and backing of the program from the chamber of commerce it is possible that more business will want to participate. The next step would be to create educational programs on sustainable practices that are open to the public along with programs only for those that are participating in the program. The educational programs should be hosted by Ohio Wesleyan this opens the possibility to involve students in the programs. The involvement of both the city of Delaware along with Ohio Wesleyan in the program will lead to a stronger relationship between the city and the university. The final recommendation that we have is getting the word out about the program. Even if the program will not officially start until next year (possibly) spreading the word about the program will lead to more business that are interested in finding out what it is.

Chapters 13-20

Chapter 13 Projecting data in ArcMap: Albers equal area conic projection. Project middle latitudes. Used the define projection tool to add a projection. Spatial reference properties to find and select coordinate systems.

Chapter 14 Building geodatabases: converted spatial data to create a geodatabase. Created an all new geodatabase. In the final exercise I added information to the geodatabase that I had already created in the previous exercise.

Chapter 15 Creating features: created features to be added to a geodatabase. Use the snapping tool to select certain odd shapes. Used feature construction tools to create features.

Chapter 16 Editing features and attributes: edited features. Moved and deleted vertices. Changed property parcels within the attribute table.

Chapter 17 Geocoding addresses: created spatial data adding features with information of names and locations. Created an address locator.

Chapter 18 Making maps from templates: created a new map template. I used the layout zoom which is actual size. Added x, y, data to a map Added titles to map. Used grid and snap to grid tool

Chapter 19 Making maps for presentation: created a poster of three different maps. Used snap to grid tool again. Added titles, subtitles, and scales and compass.

Chapter 20 Creating models: used ModelBuilder to create a model. The diagrams that are created are the models. Models consist of a lot of processes. Each processes includes input data, a tool and the output data as a result.

Chapters 3-12

Chapter 3 Exploring ArcMap: This was my first introduction to using ArcGIS. The chapter is put together very simply was easy to follow. Learned how to hide and unhide layers and figure out different tools on the toolbar. As well as learning how to create new layers and use the table of contents.

Chapter 4 Exploring ArcCatalog: In this chapter I learned how to add data from an outside folder. The identify tool was used often in these exercises, to look at elevation and basic map information on a location.

Chapter 5 Symbolizing features and rasters: In this chapter I created an Africa atlas poster. Learned how to change symbols and colors on maps. Continued to work with multiple layers and use the Label features to add labels on the map.

Chapter 6 Classifying features and rasters: Looked at the attribute table for certain layers in the table of contents. Learned how to make quantities visible on the map by using different colors. Created a histogram with the information provided. Also in this chapter I learned how to classify things manually. In the third exercise learned how to map density by using dots to represent population. In the final exercise I used charts to show data in another format.

Chapter 7 Labeling features: Added and moved around labels on a map. I set rules for labeling positions that ArcMap follows. I changed the layer priorities to determine which feature to label. In the final exercise I learned how to convert label to annotation causing ArcMap to allow me to chose the label placement and appearance.

Chapter 8 Querying data: get information by using the identify tool. Used the selection tool in order to see information for certain aspects. Hyperlinks are used to store information that isn’t on the attribute table. Selecting features by attributes. Create a report using information on the attribute table.

Chapter 9 Joining and relating tables: Join tables with common attributes. Worked with tables that had more than one attribute in common instead of joining tables relate them.

Chapter 10 Selecting features by location: Using location queries to determine a spatial relationship. Combing attribute and location queries.

Chapter 11 Preparing data for analysis: Used to dissolve to create a new layer where all the features in an input layer had the same value and become a single feature. Using ArcGIS graph wizard create graphs that were added to a map. The clip tool allowed me to take information from one layer and feature it in another layer.

Chapter 12 Analyzing spatial data: buffering features using the buffer tool. Overlaying data to combine multiple features in input layer to create a new data set. Calculated attribute values for records in a table.

City of Delaware Green Business Challenge

Create a Green Business Challenge for the City of Delaware, helping local businesses to become more green.

1. Involve the Chamber of Commerce

2. create a score card for businesses to fill out to see their current green standings and see how things have improved in the future.

- outreach programs

- energy conservation

- waste reduction

- cleaner transportation

- property management engagement

3. at the end of the challenge recognize each business that improved or made efforts to improve

Chicago Green Office Challenge

Charleston Green Business Challenge

Port of San Diego Green Business Network

Project idea

For my project  I would like to do somehow create a green business program for the local businesses in Delaware.

Charleston Green Business Challenge

Chicago Green Office Challenge

Chapter 5: Finding What’s Inside (part 2)

Drawing Areas and Feature 

1. Making the Map 

A. Locations and Lines

- individual locations or linear features can be drawn using single symbol or symbolized by       category followed by boundary drawn on top–> thick line

- use labels if mapping several areas and or draw each in a different shade

B. Discrete Areas 

- depends if you want to emphasize features inside or area itself. several choices

- shade outer area with light color and draw boundaries on top –> emphasizes which features are inside

-  fill outer area with translucent color or pattern –> emphasizes outer area

-shading by category or class range? draw outer areas boundary with thick line and discrete area boundary with thin line in  different color or light shade

- If wanting to see which discrete areas features are inside several contiguous areas use contrasting shades or patterns to distinguish each area

- discrete areas symbolized by type or quantity map with out boundary to make pattern easier to see

2. Continuous features 

- continuous data — draw areas symbolized by category or quantity –> draw boundary on top

- continuous data is outlined with a thin gray line and areas top use a thicker black line

- single area– draw boundary with thick line or shaded area with translucent color or pattern

- easy way to highlight the area while still making it easy to see inside draw only a boundary

Selecting Features Inside an Area

- specify the features and the area

- GIS checks the location of each feature to see what is inside the area–flags the one that are

highlights selected features on map and selects corresponding rows in the data table for that feature

- data table–>use to get info about the features

summarize an attribute associated with them

- Method used to find whats inside a set of areas, being treated as one

- GIS only tells if a feature is in an area not distinguish which area each feature is in

- used to find out which features are within a given distance of another feature

       ex: list of resident within 500 ft. of a restaurant wanting a new liquor license. By specifying the location of the restaurant with layer   containing locations of residents and distance GIS then selects resident within that distance

- data that has been summarized by area can only be summarized using boundaries that fully enclose the areas

1. Using the Results

-  GIS used to create a report of selected features

- create stat summaries 

count  total number of features inside the area

                 ex: number of businesses in a neighborhood 

frequency number of features with a given value or with in a range of values inside the area displayed as a table 

ex: number of business of each type with in a neighborhood

2. A Summary of a Numeric Attribute 

- along with stats report should create a map to which features

drawing all features and highlighting one inside

1. draw the features inside with one color and the outside features with a different lighter color

2.  draw features inside based on an attribute value and draw the features outside in a single color –> highlighting features inside while providing info about them

3. draw all features based on an attribute value draw ones outside in lighter shades–> provides most info about features both inside and outside

Overlaying Areas and Features 

- lets you find which discrete features are inside which areas and summarize them. calculate amount of continuous category or class

1. Overlaying areas with discrete features 

- GIS tags each feature with a code for the area it falls within and assigns the areas attributes to each feature.

- list of features of an attribute value

2. What the GIS does 

- checks to see which area each feature is in and assigns the areas ID and adds to the features record in the data table

- a new area in a new data set is used when a line or area features falls with in two or more values

3. Overlaying areas with continuous categories 

- GIS summarizes the amount of each category falling inside one or more areas

- uses vector or raster method to overlay continuous categories

• Vector Method 

              – GIS splits category where they cross areas and creates a new data set with areas that result 

-  the new areas have attributes of both input layers

- merge them into one of the adjacent larger areas

• Raster Method

               – combine raster layers GIS compares each cell on the areas layer to corresponding cell on the layer that has the categories 

- counts number of cells of each category with in each area calculates the areal extent by multiplying the number of cells and puts the results in a table

Vector vs. Raster 

- vector: provides more precise measure of areal extent; requires more processing and post processing

- raster: more efficient it calculates that areal extent for you automatically but less accurate

“Putting People in the Map”

- humans consume 1/3 of all terrestrial net primary production, move more earth and produce more nitrogen than all other terrestrial processes combined

- biomes- what ecologists use to describe global patterns of how ecosystem form, process and biodiversity

- human-dominated ecosystems now cover more of Earths land surface than do “wild” ecosystems

- existing descriptions of biomes ignore human influence

Human Interactions with Everyone

- human interactions with ecosystem range from light-extreme

light: mobile bands of hunter-gathers

extreme: complete replacement of pre-existing ecosystems with built structures

- population density indicator of form and intensity of interactions

- major differences in pop. density help to distinguish difference between humans being agents and those where they have a direct impact

- human-ecosystem 4 classes based on differences in pop. density

1. high      2. substantial      3. minor      4. inconsequential

A tour of the anthropogenic biomes 

- anthropogenic biomes dominate terrestrial biosphere covers 3/4 of Earths ice-free land

- 40% live in dense settlements

- 40% live in village biomes

- 15% live in cropland biomes

-15% live in rangeland biomes

Geospatial Analysis – A Comprehensive Guide Notes

Introduction & Terminology 

• ‘GIS’ Roger Tomlinson 1963 describe activities in building digital natural resource inventory system in Canada
• ArcGIS, Mapinfo, Manifold, TNTMips, and Geomedia types of GIS products
• surface analysis- analyze properties of physical surfaces
• 3D Physical GIS models
• intended for a wide range of readers

Conceptual Frameworks for Spatial Analysis 

• geospatial analysis concern with what happens where
• “spatial anlysis exists at the interface between the human and the computer, and both play important roles.”

Spatial Contextual Awareness 

spatial contextual awareness gathers  information of an individuals location, time of day at certain location, and activity along with the location of other individuals around them.

Spatial contextual awareness is also used in sensor devices to gather information on the environment they are placed in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_contextual_awareness

The information that is gathered on location and activity, and orientation is all put into one place

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5476629

GIS 

Geographical Information Systems

http://www.qgis.org/en/about-qgis.html

The Quantum GIS is an open source geographic information system is a free program available to a multitude of computing systems and allows volunteers add information to

 

Maps

Google Maps allows you to look at the Great Wall of China or Travel down the Amazon River from the comfort of your own chair. Google Maps has now added a new feature that allows individuals to see the directions either “via car” or “via public transportation”. Now giving the option to see train or bus routes on one website.

This new service will become very helpful to those traveling to London for the summer Olympics

Personal Introduction

 

Amy Carr 

• Junior 
• Charleston, South Carolina 
• Sociology major Geography minor 
• Interested in learning GIS and working in urban planning and community development. specifically sustainability in communities.