Sarah McLachlan produced a music video for her single "World On Fire" with the goal of donating the production costs to charities instead of spending it on the video. The $150,000 in expenses that would normally fund a video were donated to 11 charities to help over 1 million people. Examples given show how the money could fund things like girls' schooling in Afghanistan or meals for children in Calcutta. The document then discusses fair trade and focuses on exports from developing countries to developed countries for items like coffee, cocoa, and crafts. It advocates for higher prices and standards for producers. Black gold coffee is mentioned and alternative economic measures to GDP like the Genuine Progress Indicator are defined as

2. 1. Consume Less
and Donate
Money and Time
2. Fair Trade
3. Use Alternative
Economic
Measures

3. Bill Gates spends over $3
billion on charitable causes

4. Sarah McLachlan was determined to make a
statement with the new video for her single
"World On Fire."
It was McLachlan's
desire to assist those in
need by arranging for
the video's production
costs to be donated to
charities around the
globe instead of being
spent on the video.

5. Those expenses
that are
customary for a
video production
were sent to a list
of 11 charities
with total funds
equaling
$150,000.

6. Sarah could produce an average music video
for $150,000, or make a difference to over
1,000,000 people? Here are some of the ways
they did make a difference.
1. $5000 = cost of make up and hair for one
day, OR 1 years schooling for 145 girls in
Afghanistan
2. $10,200 = 2 hours of film stock, OR 6
wells built in six different countries

9. 3. $3,500 = one production supervisor, OR
schooling and support for 70 children of war
in Sierra Leone
4. In LA, catering for one day shoot = $3,000,
OR 10,950 meals for children in Calcutta
5. Schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania
= $2500 and Education for 200 students in
Ethiopia = $400

12. Fair trade is an
organized social
movement and market-
based approach that
aims to help producers
in developing countries
to make better trading
conditions and promote
sustainability.

13. The movement
advocates the
payment of a higher
price to exporters as
well as higher social,
workplace and
environmental
standards.

15. It focuses in particular on
exports from developing
countries to developed
countries, most notably
handicrafts, coffee, cocoa,
sugar, tea, bananas,
honey, cotton, wine,
fresh fruit, chocolate,
flowers, and gold

19. Black Gold Coffee
documentary- clip 3.5 min

24. 1. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
2. Environmental Accounting
3. Gross National Happiness

25. is an alternative system that is used in addition to gross
domestic product (GDP) as a measure of economic
growth.
The GPI is used in green
economics, sustainability
and more inclusive types
of economics commonly
known as "True Cost"
economics. It
distinguishes between
worthwhile growth and
uneconomic growth.

26. Certain "costs" of economic activity were not being
factored into GDP. These include the following
potential harmful effects of:
1. Resource depletion
2. Crime
3. Ozone depletion
4. Family breakdown
5. Air, water, and noise pollution
6. Loss of farmland
7. Loss of wetlands
However, GDP is held up as a value neutral measure. It is
relatively straightforward to measure compared to GPI.

27. Environmental accounting identifies resource use,
measures and communicates costs of the economic
impact on the environment.
Costs include costs to clean up or remediate
contaminated sites, environmental fines, penalties
and taxes,
purchase of
pollution
prevention
technologies
and waste
management
costs.

31.  You will be participating in a
opportunity cost analysis exercise to
identify the opportunity costs of a
decision in which environmental
quality is an issue in trade between
two states in the United States.
 Here is the situation ….

32. Despite an active recycling program and a
successful ongoing campaign to reduce per-
household garbage, the city of Bayview is facing a
trash problem. Its last remaining landfill is rapidly
reaching capacity and the city must decide what to
do about disposal of solid waste. The available
options are:
1. Build a new city-owned landfill
2. Build a city-owned waste energy incineration
facility
3. Pay to dump in landfills in neighboring counties
4. Contract to ship waste out of the state

33.  Distribute the student handout and
go through the instructions to make
sure that students understand the
task.
 You will be assigned a Bayview role.
Complete the grid and the 5 minute
presentation.

34. Direct the group reporter to read
aloud the group’s role description
before beginning the presentation.
Direct members of the class to
pretend that they are on the city
council and will have to vote on the
Bayview trash issue.

35. 1. How did you vote and why?
2. Which solution provides greatest
environmental quality?
Shipping the garbage to Flatland County
in the next state.

36. In which solution are the Bayview
residents most able to escape some
of the costs of their own garbage?
The incineration option, because it
won’t be possible to prevent any air
pollution that is generated from
blowing to other areas.

37. Which solution promises to generate
the most benefits for the greatest
number of people?
The Flatland County Landfill option,
which not only rids Bayview of its
garbage, but does so in the most
environmentally friendly way and also
generates income for the residents of
Flatland.

38. Should Bayview be allowed to pollute – that
is, to reduce the environmental quality – of
Flatland County?
1) the trash must go somewhere and 2) the
Flatlanders chose to accept lower environmental
quality. One pointed way to bring home the
trade-off is to turn the question around and ask if
it’s OK for Bayview to deny Flatland the chance
to move out of poverty.

39. In this exchange, or trade, between Bayview
and Flatland County, what is being bought
and sold? And who is the seller and who is
the buyer?
Flatland is selling, or exporting to Bayview the use
of one of its natural resources, the land used for the
disposal of trash. Bayview is purchasing, or
importing, the use of that natural resource. In this
case the resource is the land that is well suited to
use as a landfill, but it could be the natural resource
of timber, clean water, iron ore, or oil.

40. Economists point out that if an
exchange is voluntary, it creates
wealth. The Bayview – Flatland
exchange is voluntary, so it must
create wealth. That is, both sides
benefit. Should the residents of
Flatland County be allowed to
accept lower environmental quality
in return for higher income?

41. Help students to understand that decisions
about resources always involve trade-offs of
environmental quality and the benefits of
whatever is produced by using the
environment. Also help them to see that
questions of property rights are involved
here, too. How should people’s property
rights be defined or limited when
environmental quality is at stake?

42. This exercise is based on a real situation.
Bayview is the city of Seattle, and
Flatland is Gilliam County, Oregon.
Gilliam County lobbied actively for
Seattle’s trash and was awarded a
contract. Each day at 4:00 p.m. a fifty-car
container train leaves Seattle to make the
340-mile trip to Gilliam County, Oregon.
Each year more than 475,000 tons of
municipal solid waste is hauled.

43. The assessment of Gross National Happiness
was designed in an attempt to define an
indicator that measures quality of life or social
progress in more holistic and psychological
terms than only the
economic indicator
of gross domestic
product.(GDP)
Bhutan

44. Gross National Happiness value is proposed to
be an index function of the total average per
capita of the following measures:
1. Economic Wellness:
2. Environmental
Wellness:
3. Physical Wellness:
4. Mental Wellness
5. Workplace Wellness:
6. Social Wellness:
7. Political Wellness
GNH Explained

46. Bhutan

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