Carbon is Crime

The environmental movement is gaining unprecedented momentum. Individuals and governments are identifying the resolution of environmental issues as a panacea for all social ills. Corporations are recognizing the emergence of a new currency in Carbon, and those that are ?future ready? have begun to optimize value chains to reflect the new environmental priorities. With corporations starting to back the movement, the industrialized world is on its way to developing ?banks? of carbon-credit surplus which will only increase access to the already elite, and continue to shift the burden to the BOP.

Imani Sabana Cadenza

Adopting a 3 year old boy from Nigeria named Osaze

Sensing that we were on the tipping point of environmental myopia in 2010, Imani already lived a sustainable life in many ways. However, the greatest change in her lifestyle has been caused by the limitations placed on international travel. Air Travel, although considerably more environmentally friendly, is now reserved only for the elite. She now saves a sizable amount of her paycheque to travel within the country in order to assess and improve social services. It should be noted that as a social/environmental sustainability Consultant, she has built significant equity in one of the most popular, and lucrative industries. Although she is making a fair amount of money, the costs associated with education and healthcare for her child are not insignificant.

She continues to eat locally produced foods and strives to reduce her global footprint.

She spends less time doing several, multifaceted projects and instead focuses on doing one thing at a time. In the past 10 years, she suffered form some near-breakdowns as she tried to change the world in one big swoop before realizing that the better method would be to take small steps.

She lives in one of the new urban developments on the outskirts of downtown Toronto. A multidisciplinary firm called Peace by Piece Architects created revolutionary new homes that are not only carbon neutral, but are affordable and generate their own electricity through a combination of solar and wind technology. Owners of these homes receive a significant tax break from the government and make up the majority of housing outside the downtown core of Toronto.

Her husband Aurelio (Italian name meaning Golden) and her five year old Son, Osaze.

She is now Director of Social Responsibility; the need for the environmental push has dwindled since 2010 so she focuses her time on trying to improve social welfare without sacrificing the environment. The scale of her work has increased immensely.Along with her impressive list of corporate clients, she also works remotely with the House of Saud in the Emirates, the government of Nigeria and the UN.

She wakes up and walks downstairs -- home offices have increasingly become the trend to discourage driving and congestion. Meeting spaces are virtual.

For the most part, Imani still relies on the Toronto Transit Commission. However, her and her husband are members of the government-sponsored hydrogen vehicle sharing program ? a vehicle sharing program amongst municipalities.

Not as much as she used to. She ended up going to Jerusalem, where she met and fell in love with her husband, who was doing a documentary there. For the first two years of marriage they travelled together extensively but as the new carbon legislation came in, their travel significantly decreased.

Madagascar

The native Canadian reserves in Calgary. Their situation has become worse over the years.

Moi Moi - a popular Nigerian dish made of steamed beans that her son Osaze and her love making together on Sunday afternoons.

She would still like to try that dish in Thailand, but hasn?t been able to due to tight travel restrictions.

Biodegradable batteries, for clean technologies such as the personal carbon usage meters that everyone in her family has. She buys these along with most of her other household purchases online.

After she got married her husband got her into videography so she recently purchased a extreme high definition (EHD) professional video camera to assist her husband on his projects with and also use to capture Osaze at his soccer practices.

Imani is still unequivocally reliant on the internet. The internet is no longer talked about as something one has access to; it is assumed that you are connected. It is weaved into clothes, built into homes and hardwired into roads and city infrastructure.

The last book that she downloaded on her Kindle was:



Yes We Did - A memoire of the Former President of the United States Barack Obama

Social media has now usurped person-to-person contact as the primary form of communication. Social interaction is largely virtual with everyone except a few close friends and her family.

Imani, her husband and their son, have a weekly ritual of sharing a meal, thoughts and ideas over a dinner table, a tradition which has become virtually non-existent for many Torontonian familes.

Imani just found out she is pregnant and will be having a baby in 8 months

Her children, and the future that she can provide for them.

Pope sits down with new President of the Democratic Republic of Walmart (DRW) to discuss political and economic strategies.

Imani wakes up at 5am to start her day with stretching followed by a time of reflection, praying and reading. She likes this early morning hour as it allows her to focus for the day and get organized before her son and husband wake up. She then takes pride in preparing a organic and wholesome breakfast for her family and packs lunch for her son to take to school. By 7am everyone is up and ready to go and then the three of them walk to Osaze's school to drop him off. Her husband and her then take a jog around the neighbourhood and get back and ready to start their work day at 8:30am. They both set up their offices in the house and work fairly indepenently throughout the day. They break for lunch and a couple snacks throughout the day but are fairly engrossed with their work and meetings until their son comes home. Sometimes their work will be offsite but most of the time it is at home. After her son comes home and after dinner, dpepending o n the evening they will sometimes attend a course or skill training session together as a family. They like to try things theyve nevered tried before such as an artistic, music, or language course. By 9pm Osaze is ready for bed and her and her husband usually spend the last hour relaxing to some music and herbal tea before going to bed themselves. For the most part its much more routine than she's used to but she is embracing this new era of her life and is looking forward to the new addition in 8months.