Introduction to Sustainabliity: How we ensure we maintain to planet your children inherit.

1. Sustainability: How we
ensure we maintain to planet
your children inherit
August 1, 2017 by Tony
Green

2. Are you familiar with sustainability?
What does it mean to you?

3. 1. What are we
talking about?
2. How we are un-
sustainable ?
3. The Impact of
Sustainability
4. The Three
Pillars of
Sustainability
5. How do we get
to Sustainability
Agenda

4. Sustainability is nothing new

5. Sustainability is……………?
“the ability of something to maintain itself.”

7. o Planet
o People
o Profit
The Three Pillars of Sustainability

8. Pillars 1 - People

9. Pillar 2 - Profit

10. Pillar 3 - Planet

11. How did we get here?

12. Extracting
large
amount of
materials
from the
lithosphere

13. Creating substance that nature takes a longtime to
breakdown/produce materials already exist in large quantities

14. Inhibiting nature’s ability to run natural cycles

15. Creating barriers to people meeting human needs worldwide

16. What if the Impact of our non-sustainability?
Impact = P x A x T

17. Impacts of Climate Change

18. How do we get to Sustainability?

19. How We Live - The buildings we reside in
- At Home & at Work

20. How We Live – Energy Efficiency

21. How We Live – Energy Storage

22. How We Live – Wood Burning

23. How We Travel – Getting from place A to B

24. How We Travel – Development Near Transit

25. How We Travel – Zero Emission/Renewables

26. How We Travel – By Bike……On Foot

27. What we Produce -

28. What we Produce -

29. What we Produce -

30. What we Produce -

31. What we consume -
And where does it go when we are finished

32. What we consume - Low GHG Diet
Can you
Live
without
Meat??

33. What we consume – Food Waste

34. What we consume - Putting Organic
Materials to Use

36. For Homework -

37. Question and Answers