This document discusses several topics related to sustainability including:
1. It provides definitions of shallow and deep sustainability, noting that deep sustainability involves radical redesign based on ecological principles rather than just efficiency improvements.
2. It discusses the perennial philosophy of an underlying unity across all life and wisdom traditions.
3. It summarizes key points from Pope Francis' encyclical on sustainability including its call for a new paradigm that addresses environmental, social, and economic issues together based on their interconnections.
Billion Dollar Proposal for Applied Cultural EvolutionJoe Brewer
Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for a 1 billion euro grant from the European Union nearly a decade ago was FuturICT with their vision for modeling complex social systems to avoid (or manage) future economic collapses. So I am not the first person to propose that a massive effort is needed to (a) integrate the social sciences; and (b) do so with motivation to apply what is learned to address extremely difficult problems in the world. With that said, let me now offer my billion dollar proposal that follows in FuturICT’s footsteps. At the time they were competing for substantial funding, I was working with the International Centre for Earth Simulation to build its billion dollar (over a decade) vision for a high-performance computing facility that models the entire Earth in its full complexity. It is from these projects that I draw inspiration for this essay.
Also, a fact that should cause you to sit up straight. The annual budget for CERN (the high-energy particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland) was roughly 1.2 billion dollars in 2017. So what I am calling for here is what the European Union spends every single year on the search for fundamental particles for all of humanity to instead address the global ecological crisis and safeguard the future of our species.
Think about this for a moment before you continue reading this essay. It really should cause you to pause and reflect about our current priorities as human beings.
What I propose now is a framework for guiding humanity through the sustainability bottleneck as we navigate the planetary-scale systemic collapse outlined in the previous two essays in this series. If you want to hear me talk through this proposal in a recorded talk, I invite you to watch the 90 minute video on YouTube for a version that I presented to the cognitive science department at the University of California, Merced earlier this year. This essay will go into more detail about the vision I’ve been cultivating for a global network of culture design labs that—as argued in previous essays—I no longer believe is possible to build in the world.
Why I Am No Longer Attempting to Build A Rigorous Science of Social ChangeJoe Brewer
Let me start by saying that literally every social problem humanity now confronts will benefit from taking a rigorous, evidence-based approach to developing interventions that work. If I believe this—you might wonder—why would I title an article this way?
The answer is simply that I have been trying to manifest into the world a science of large-scale social change for 18 years. During that time I have repeatedly found that almost no one gives preference to being effective over the feeling of “being right.” This has been true as I’ve interacted with academic researchers, the staff of numerous nonprofit organizations, program officers and boards of directors at foundations, government personnel providing public services, and among social-impact businesses of various kinds.
So I am shifting gears and no longer attempting to build this grand visionary work. I simply don’t see it as feasible anymore and am going to introspect deeply about what I might do that is of service in times as serious as these when in my heart I now accept that my life’s work cannot succeed. In the spirit of the foundational challenge named in the opening of this essay, I invite you to prove me wrong. Critique and analyze my assumptions. Gather your own data to confront and challenge the argument laid out here. See if you can find a way to birth such an ambitious vision where I have failed to do so.
I would much rather be wrong and see effective solutions emerge than to be right and feel the hollow gratification of saying “I told you so” as the world goes into full-scale systemic collapse in the next few decades.
Onward, fellow humans.
Billion Dollar Proposal for Applied Cultural EvolutionJoe Brewer
Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for a 1 billion euro grant from the European Union nearly a decade ago was FuturICT with their vision for modeling complex social systems to avoid (or manage) future economic collapses. So I am not the first person to propose that a massive effort is needed to (a) integrate the social sciences; and (b) do so with motivation to apply what is learned to address extremely difficult problems in the world. With that said, let me now offer my billion dollar proposal that follows in FuturICT’s footsteps. At the time they were competing for substantial funding, I was working with the International Centre for Earth Simulation to build its billion dollar (over a decade) vision for a high-performance computing facility that models the entire Earth in its full complexity. It is from these projects that I draw inspiration for this essay.
Also, a fact that should cause you to sit up straight. The annual budget for CERN (the high-energy particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland) was roughly 1.2 billion dollars in 2017. So what I am calling for here is what the European Union spends every single year on the search for fundamental particles for all of humanity to instead address the global ecological crisis and safeguard the future of our species.
Think about this for a moment before you continue reading this essay. It really should cause you to pause and reflect about our current priorities as human beings.
What I propose now is a framework for guiding humanity through the sustainability bottleneck as we navigate the planetary-scale systemic collapse outlined in the previous two essays in this series. If you want to hear me talk through this proposal in a recorded talk, I invite you to watch the 90 minute video on YouTube for a version that I presented to the cognitive science department at the University of California, Merced earlier this year. This essay will go into more detail about the vision I’ve been cultivating for a global network of culture design labs that—as argued in previous essays—I no longer believe is possible to build in the world.
Why I Am No Longer Attempting to Build A Rigorous Science of Social ChangeJoe Brewer
Let me start by saying that literally every social problem humanity now confronts will benefit from taking a rigorous, evidence-based approach to developing interventions that work. If I believe this—you might wonder—why would I title an article this way?
The answer is simply that I have been trying to manifest into the world a science of large-scale social change for 18 years. During that time I have repeatedly found that almost no one gives preference to being effective over the feeling of “being right.” This has been true as I’ve interacted with academic researchers, the staff of numerous nonprofit organizations, program officers and boards of directors at foundations, government personnel providing public services, and among social-impact businesses of various kinds.
So I am shifting gears and no longer attempting to build this grand visionary work. I simply don’t see it as feasible anymore and am going to introspect deeply about what I might do that is of service in times as serious as these when in my heart I now accept that my life’s work cannot succeed. In the spirit of the foundational challenge named in the opening of this essay, I invite you to prove me wrong. Critique and analyze my assumptions. Gather your own data to confront and challenge the argument laid out here. See if you can find a way to birth such an ambitious vision where I have failed to do so.
I would much rather be wrong and see effective solutions emerge than to be right and feel the hollow gratification of saying “I told you so” as the world goes into full-scale systemic collapse in the next few decades.
Onward, fellow humans.
sustainable development & the water, energy food security nexus is discussed. The content throws light on sustainable development : Effects on the livelihood of common man.
This is an overview report on a 2013 study we conducted of social media content about global warming. It shows that underlying psychological drivers can be discerned from large data sets to reveal implicit structures of a major social discourse.
Development, Environment and Sustainabilty–the triumvirate on Geographical FrameProf Ashis Sarkar
Development, Environment and Sustainability form the triumvirate of present day World. If human is to survive and development is to remain sustainable, the geographical issues and concerns should be the thrust of analysis.
Michael P Totten GreenATP: APPortunities to catalyze local to global positive...Michael P Totten
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy.
Sustainability and wise use of natural resources.. Are we compromisingTapas Ghatak
The anxiety is mounting about our process and ability to achieve sustainability, that is, our greed to meet our present needs while ensuring that future generations will be able to meet their needs.
Buildings produce half of all greenhouse gases and account for one-sixth of the world's
freshwater withdrawals, one-quarter of its wood harvest and two fifths of its material and
energy flows. One in three buildings in this country, according to the USEPA, has less
than healthy indoor air quality. By several estimates, we will double the size of the built
environment over the next twenty to forty years. For these reasons there is a critical and
immediate need to shift thinking on how the built environment is designed. To reduce
environmental impact, protect public health and improve environmental equity and
justice, we must change principles for building practice. Designers in general and
architects in particular should play a high profile leadership role in this transformation.
Collapse Scenarios, drawn from the Futures special issue on extinction scenar...Wendy Schultz
A prospective client asked for a presentation on societal collapse, with roughly a 400-year time horizon. As I had heard that Prof. Bruce Tonn was editing a special issue of Futures on extinction scenarios, I requested access to the essays ahead of publication. He kindly assented, and I drew on several of the essays to create this slidedeck of "collapse" scenarios (I wasn't asked to take the stories to complete extinction). Some of the stories I wanted to tell were not well-represented in the essays of the special edition, and so I drew on other resources as well. Finally, I chose to interpret "collapse" as "the end of the world as we know it," and thus also included a post-Singularity, nanotech, "mutable world" scenario. Please feel free to contact me (wendy@infinitefutures.com) if you have any questions.
The Relationship Between Natural Resources and Sustainable Development IJSRP Journal
The sustainable development aims at raising the societies' standard of living by means of fulfilling the basic needs from the product the economic resources generated, particularly; the natural resources. These resources, by its nature; is limited and scarce and fall short in meeting all human needs at the same time, accordingly; the importance of optimal and fair use of natural resources in a way that satisfies the needs of the current generation, without affecting the needs of the generation to come. This could be achieved by good and rationalized planning in using natural resources to realize the sustainable development, taking into account the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The most significant challenges the sustainable development encounters is the excessive exhaustion of using natural resources resultant out of lack of awareness in terms of scarcity of these resources and their importance in development. We recommend that the existing natural resources to be maintained, and other energy resourcesto be foundand usedusedduring the exceptional circumstance. Further, the awareness related to the rationalized use of natural resources should be outspread.
sustainable development & the water, energy food security nexus is discussed. The content throws light on sustainable development : Effects on the livelihood of common man.
This is an overview report on a 2013 study we conducted of social media content about global warming. It shows that underlying psychological drivers can be discerned from large data sets to reveal implicit structures of a major social discourse.
Development, Environment and Sustainabilty–the triumvirate on Geographical FrameProf Ashis Sarkar
Development, Environment and Sustainability form the triumvirate of present day World. If human is to survive and development is to remain sustainable, the geographical issues and concerns should be the thrust of analysis.
Michael P Totten GreenATP: APPortunities to catalyze local to global positive...Michael P Totten
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy.
Sustainability and wise use of natural resources.. Are we compromisingTapas Ghatak
The anxiety is mounting about our process and ability to achieve sustainability, that is, our greed to meet our present needs while ensuring that future generations will be able to meet their needs.
Buildings produce half of all greenhouse gases and account for one-sixth of the world's
freshwater withdrawals, one-quarter of its wood harvest and two fifths of its material and
energy flows. One in three buildings in this country, according to the USEPA, has less
than healthy indoor air quality. By several estimates, we will double the size of the built
environment over the next twenty to forty years. For these reasons there is a critical and
immediate need to shift thinking on how the built environment is designed. To reduce
environmental impact, protect public health and improve environmental equity and
justice, we must change principles for building practice. Designers in general and
architects in particular should play a high profile leadership role in this transformation.
Collapse Scenarios, drawn from the Futures special issue on extinction scenar...Wendy Schultz
A prospective client asked for a presentation on societal collapse, with roughly a 400-year time horizon. As I had heard that Prof. Bruce Tonn was editing a special issue of Futures on extinction scenarios, I requested access to the essays ahead of publication. He kindly assented, and I drew on several of the essays to create this slidedeck of "collapse" scenarios (I wasn't asked to take the stories to complete extinction). Some of the stories I wanted to tell were not well-represented in the essays of the special edition, and so I drew on other resources as well. Finally, I chose to interpret "collapse" as "the end of the world as we know it," and thus also included a post-Singularity, nanotech, "mutable world" scenario. Please feel free to contact me (wendy@infinitefutures.com) if you have any questions.
The Relationship Between Natural Resources and Sustainable Development IJSRP Journal
The sustainable development aims at raising the societies' standard of living by means of fulfilling the basic needs from the product the economic resources generated, particularly; the natural resources. These resources, by its nature; is limited and scarce and fall short in meeting all human needs at the same time, accordingly; the importance of optimal and fair use of natural resources in a way that satisfies the needs of the current generation, without affecting the needs of the generation to come. This could be achieved by good and rationalized planning in using natural resources to realize the sustainable development, taking into account the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The most significant challenges the sustainable development encounters is the excessive exhaustion of using natural resources resultant out of lack of awareness in terms of scarcity of these resources and their importance in development. We recommend that the existing natural resources to be maintained, and other energy resourcesto be foundand usedusedduring the exceptional circumstance. Further, the awareness related to the rationalized use of natural resources should be outspread.
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Part one of four of my slides from my two-night talk at Seattle's Town Hall. This evening was introduced by Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin, and is about the global context in which Seattle finds itself making decisions.
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harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
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1 introduction and overview - Energy 101 fall 2015
1. Add
Sustainability as Flourishing
Energy Descent, Plenitude as intro to making
list of objectives of the course
Video of Danish 100%
Compost heat video
Arduino video
Drawing of Iowa 100% Renewables
Pope Francis
Substiutabily
Flow vs stock
2. • Wind and Solar hockey stick graphs
The New Hockey Sticks
6. A Golden Thread
2500 years of solar architecture and technology
1939 MIT solar house
7. MIT House - Boston, 1939
Sun Alone Keeps Winter Temp Steady 72
Financed by wealthy Bostonian Godfrey Lowell Cabot, described by
Time Magazine as a man of 77 who in his old age “broods much about
The vast stores of energy in sunlight that man does not utilize”
8. Betz limit for wind energy
Thermal
Energy In
Maximum fraction of incoming wind energy that can be converted into useful wind generator
energy is 0.59. Range is .2-.4 for practical wind turbines.
Regardless of Materials or Technology!
Total energy in moving
air entering turbine
Converted to
useful wind
turbine energy
Energy in air
leaving turbine
9. Energy Flow in Human History
• Low energy societies – Hunter-gatherer – first
leisure society – great gains in energy
• Energy gains for hunter gathers:
– 30-40 for energy dense roots
– 10-20 for all gathering zero to net loss for small
mammals
– Net energy return for Alaska Inuit baleen whale:
2000
10. Lovins on Opportunity Cost
Fine Homebuilding, Spring 1991
Will you have a dead-end job because someone bought the wrong
light bulbs?
15. 15
How Much Oil is There Anyway…
2 Trillion barrels
is the equivalent
to 1.4% of the
volume of the
great lakes.
Less than the size of
Green Bay.
16. 16
How much is a gallon of ‘liquid carbon’ fuel really worth?
One Truck + 1 gal. of Diesel Fuel
80,000 lb. truck
5 miles (up a shallow grade)
By Hand
1 person with 1 garden cart
= 250 lbs/load/trip
1 person could manage 20 miles/day
or 4 loads/day (1,000 lbs.)
Conclusion:
5 Minutes by truck
80 Days by foot & cart
Powerful Oil – ‘Black Gold’
20. “The stone age didn’t end because we
ran out of stones….” - Saudi Oil
Minister
Economy of Scarcity Economy of Abundance
Nature’s Economy: Ecosystem Services
Man’s Economy
21. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with
your one wild and precious life.
Mary Oliver
23. Sustainability Challenges
2 Degrees Safe Global Temp rise
It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet
It’s time to divest from fossil fuels
5 times more coal, oil, and gas in proven reserves than is safe to burn. We need to leave 80% of
it in the ground.
The fossil fuel industry wakes up every day determined to burn it all.
575 Gigatons of carbon can safely be added to the atmosphere
2795 Gigatons of carbon in proven reserves
24. “We need a persuasive and visionary yes
rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb
2015
25. “Although the problems are
increasingly complex,
the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple”
- Bill Mollison
developer of Permaculture
Design Methodology
26. “We are charged with
designing the future,
not being victims of it”
- R Buckminster Fuller
27.
28. If we get the design right, we get cascading
side benefits
If we get the design wrong, we get cascading
side effects
Sustainable Living:
A New and Better Design for Living
29. Solving for Pattern
"There are all kinds of solutions to any problem. Some
solutions actually make the initial problem worse, and
some solutions actually create new problems. What
you really want to look for are solutions that by their
very nature wind up having cascading benefits.”
Wendell Berry, 2005
30.
31. Sustainability
Meet the needs of the present without diminishing
opportunities for the future
A world view with a set of supporting infrastructure,
technologies, institutions, ways of relating to each
other and to nature
32. John Ehrenfeld – Flourishing
Sustainability is the possibility that humans and
other life will flourish on Earth forever
Reducing unsustainability, although critical, will
not create sustainability.
Being less bad vs moving in the right direction
SUSTAINABILITY AS FLOURISHING
Being vs Having
33.
34. Shallow Vs Deep Sustainability
Shallow Sustainability - Using efficiency and
substitution to ameliorate the effects of the
existing system with doing much to change
the worldview the system is based on.
Motivated primarily by economic value.
35. Deep Sustainability
Efficiency and substitution are in service to
radical redesign based on a worldview that
uses ecology as a metaphor rather than the
machine, holism rather than reductionism,
compliments science with many ways of
knowing, and is grounded in an
experiential and intellectual understanding
of the unity that underlies the surface
diversity of life.
36. Deep Sust Cont’d
• This worldview leads to a society that has an
ethic of regeneration and renewal of human
society and nature. Deep sustainability gives
priority to ethical and social values while
recognizing the necessity of economic
viability.
38. Perennial Philosophy:
Transcendentalist, Huxley, Houston Smith
World’s Wisdom Traditions
These is a unity that underlies the surface diversity of life
In addition to intellectually exploring this idea, people
can directly experience this unity
This experience is common across cultures and time
To reconnect with this unity is the ultimate purpose of
life
Names: Being, Source, Pure Consciousness,
Higher states of consciousness
39. Perennial Philosphy
The first peace, which is most important, is that
which comes from within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship, their
oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the
universe dwells the great spirit, and that this
center is really everywhere — it is within each
of us.” Black Elk
40. ““It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together
because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating
breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the
way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to
have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure
of all reality.” Martin Luther King
“Everything is so intimately connected with every other thing in creation that it is not
possible to distinguish completely the existence of one from the other. And the
influence of one thing on every other thing is so universal that nothing could be
considered in isolation. We have already mentioned that the universe reacts to an
individual action…Therefore, the great responsibility of right and wrong lies in the
individual him[or her]self on the level of his[or her] consciousness.”—Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi - Science of Being and Art of Living p. 219-223
42. Pope Francis
and Deep Sustainability
On Care For Our Common Home – Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si
A year in the making and informed by a large team of mostly secular scientists, philosophers, and theologians,
the encyclical offers a blueprint for an entirely new way of living in the world. The Pope applies a
comprehensive and sophisticated systems analysis to explore the root causes of environmental
degradation, linking it with corrupt social structures, human failures, injustice, and inequality. He calls for a
new paradigm to address these intertwined challenges.
"Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living
creatures are dependent on one another.”
Each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. ...The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be
found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of
arrival, which is God.”
The notion of the common good also extends to future generations... We can no longer speak of sustainable
development apart from intergenerational solidarity. We can no longer view reality in a purely utilitarian
way, in which efficiency and productivity are entirely geared to our individual benefit. Intergenerational
solidarity is not optional, but rather a basic question of justice, since the world we have received also
belongs to those who will follow us” (para. 159).
“Rivers, polluted for decades, have been cleaned up; native woodlands have been restored; landscapes have
been beautified… advances have been made in the production of non-polluting energy and in the
improvement of public transportation” (para. 58). “At the same time we can note the rise of a false or
superficial ecology which bolsters complacency and a cheerful recklessness.” These superficial ecologists
argue that “apart from a few obvious signs of pollution and deterioration, things do not look that serious,
and the planet could continue as it is for some time. Such evasiveness serves as a license to carrying on
with our present lifestyles and models of production and consumption” (Sec 59).
43. Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in
the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
Democracy
Education
Disease
Terrorism and War
Poverty
Environment
Food
Water
Energy
44. Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in
the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
9. Democracy
Disease
Terrorism and War
Poverty
Environment
Water
Education
45. Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in
the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
9. Democracy
8. Education
Democracy
Disease
Terrorism and War
Poverty
Environment
Water
46. Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in
the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
9. Democracy
8. Education
7. Disease Democracy
Poverty
Environment
Water
47. Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in
the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
9. Democracy
8. Education
7. Disease
6. Terrorism and War
5. Poverty
4. Environment
3. Food
2. Water
1. Energy
48. Why is Energy #1?
• Abundant, available, affordable, clean, efficient and secure energy
would enable the resolution of all of the other problems.
• We need energy for sustainability.
• We need energy to maintain order in the world’s systems because of
the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics:
– While energy is conserved, as it is transformed, it loses it’s usefulness, a concept
called Entropy. It takes energy from outside the system to overcome the effects
of entropy and continually recreate order and structure.
– Only through a flow of high quality energy into the system (and a corresponding
flow of less quality energy out) can order and structure be created. A constant
flow of energy is required to maintain complex structure.
– Nature and society on Earth are able to produce order and structure only through
their ability to acquire energy. Solar energy is the only place we can get this
outside source of high quality energy in the long term.
• Nature uses the plant photosynthesis to acquire energy for all living things.
• Society uses energy systems - mostly the stored fossil energy from those plants
millions of years ago to acquire energy for civilization.
50. Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• 1st law – energy is neither created nor
destroyed – it is eternally cycled from one
form to another
• 2nd law – energy loses useful each time it is
transformed – same quantity of energy but it
can no longer do the same kinds of work.
51. Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• Examples
– Coffee
– Car Engine
– Leaky tire
• Materials Cycle
• Energy flows from source to sink
52. Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• For Sustainability: We need a continuous
source of high quality energy to offset the
effects of entropy, we need solar energy
60. Germany
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.
On Sunday, May 11, 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from renewables.
Energiewende, the innovative public policy around renewables has created 400,000 jobs in
Germany
“More people work in the solar industry in the US than work for Google, Facebook, Twitter and
Apple combined” Vice President Joe Biden, Sept 2015
61.
62. Solar Potential
Germany vs Iowa
Germany (Berlin): 883 kwh per kw
Total Solar Installed in Germany: 38,359 mw
Des Moines Iowa : 1300 kwh per kw
Total capacity Iowa Electric grid in Iowa: 10,000 mw
Hilo, Hawaii 1300 kwh/kw
Kauai 1469 kwh/kw
63.
64. Kauai
On August 31, 2014, during daytime hours, 57% of
power on Kauai was from renewable sources.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Hawaii)
Once Anahola goes on-line, solar will approach 80%
of the energy demand on some days. At some
times solar output may exceed demand. Kauai is a
laboratory for the world on 100% renewable
energy.
73. 2015 – 900 KW addition
We’ll see it on our field trip
Cost of energy from the latest array at Farmers Electric Coop:
7 cents for 10 years
0 for next 10 years
Ave cost for 20 years: 3.5 cents kwh (ignores time value of money)
Wind Power cost: 4 cents per kwh
What we pay retail: 15 cents
Ave cost of new coal plant electricity: 9.5 – 14 cents
From: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm
74. Iowa
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
From 5% to 25% in Just 6 Years!
Predictions call for 40% by 2020
% Iowa Electrical Energy
from Wind
5 Times Increase in Wind Energy Production in 6 years
78. Portugal at 58% Renewable Energy
for 2013
(First half of 2013 was 75%)
Pop 10.4 million
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs
CostaCostaCosta
79. Costa Rica 100% Powered by Renewable
Energy for the 1st 75 days of 2015
Pop: 4.8 Million Annual % Renewables: 88%
Renewables allowed a 12% reduction in energy prices
“We are declaring peace with nature,” Costa Rican ambassador Mario Fernández Silva
87. Electric Transportation: Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf Example
Assume 12,000 miles per year
Leaf gets 5.4 miles per kwh, 2300 kwh per year
Cost for electricity at 12 cents (40 cents on Kauai) /kwh:$271
Equivalent cost for gas @$3/gallon: $1200
Cost of PV panels to produce this much annual energy: $1600
Cost of system: $4600
Like having 70 cent per gallon gasoline
88. But Consider Design Again:
The better car makes the worse city
The surprising sustainability of city living
Going beyond individual initiative
Richard Register
Sustainable Living Department Distinguished Scholar
108. Storage in electric cars
Each Leaf has a 24 kwh battery and electronics
capable of producing a 80 kw.
20% of passenger vehicles were like the Leaf:
Capacity of those vehicles:
25,700 MW
Equivalent to 42 big coal plants
Iowa has 5 large coal plants and 15 smaller ones
109. Compressed air energy storage
270 MW project studied by
Iowa Association of
Municipal Utilities
Would be used 5-6 hours
per day, 5 days per week
Original site wasn’t
suitable
112. Can we do this?
What is the level of response
needed?
• WW II PREP STATISTCS
• 4 days after Pearl Harbor, auto industry ordered to stop
production of civilian vehicles
– Fuel rationed at 4 gallons per week per car, dropping to 2 gallons in
1944
– 35 mph speed limit, break it and loose your fuel and tire rations
– Backed by marketing campaign
• Military spending
– 1940: 1.9 % of GDP
– 1943: 32% of GDP
– GDP increased by 75%
• Campaigns to reduce meat consumption, for recycling, gardening
• Dramatic increases in the level of taxation
• England transition to feeding itself from backyard gardens in 1
year
116. News from the SL Department
• Building Update Systems operational this fall:
Net Zero energy for all energy use
(10 kw wind, 11 kw solar)
Passive Solar
Solar thermal (750 sq feet, 5,000
gallon tank)
Geothermal heating/cooling
Earth Plasters
Rain Garden
Rainwater harvesting
On site sewage treatment
Greenhouse plantings
Stepped Pyramids on Corners
(MSV)
Certifications applied for:
LEED: platinum (gold)
Living Building Challenge: 6 or 7 out of
8 petals
Maharishi Sthapatya Ved
Bau Biology
None obtained yet
122. Still to Come
Off grid energy
More aesthetic features (Veranda screens)
Edible landscaping/perennials planting
Finishing certificate process
123. Second Energy Course Next Block
Coming
– SL E-201 Energy Technology – Solar, Wind,
Flowing Water, Biomass, geothermal etc
Go deep into the details of the energy resource and
the technology
Learn System Design
Visit Boulder
National Renewable Energy Lab
National Wind Power Test Facility
138. Plentitude Fundamentals
Juliet Schor
1. A New Allocation of Time – less industrial work, more time for
working outside of the BAU economy and for social relations.
2. Self-provision - or make, grow, or do things for oneself. Includes new
forms of hi-tech making.
3. True Materialism – it is only when we take the materiality of the
world seriously that we can appreciate and preserve the resources on
which spending depends.
4. restore investments in one another and our communities. While
social bonds are not typically thought of in economic terms, these
connections, which scholars call social capital, are a form of wealth
that is every bit as important as money or material goods.
Work and spend less, create and connect more.
141. Course Objectives
1. Argue for widespread adoption of renewables
2. Evaluate the viability of proposed energy technologies and programs
3. Describe the range of renewable energy technology
4. Describe the characteristics of the major renewable energy resources
(sun, wind, flowing water, biomass, geothermal)
5. Evaluate feasibility of meeting energy needs with renewable energy
6. Calculate quantities of energy available from renewable sources
7. Evaluate energy requirements
8. Evaluate suitability of renewable energy technology to meet energy
demands
9. Understand the the importance of policy in the adoption of renewable
energy.
10. Understand the fundamental role that energy plays in the
sustainability revolution
143. Field Trip
Friday, November 13
Iowa City Area
Yoderville Biodiesel Coop
Farmers Electric Coop
Coal/Biomass boiler at UI
Huge wind turbine and training program at
Kirkwood Community College
Meet with David Osterberg
Iowa City Coop
144. Daily Schedule
• FLIP Classroom – review lecture in the evening, projects and
exercises in the classroom
• Classroom– projects, labs, guest speakers, calculation exercises
• Basic Electricity Lab
• Real projects in the community
• Saturday – Team work, review
We’ll be going on a field trip to the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area (Friday
November 13)
145. Lateness Policy
• We are allocating a lot of time to hands on
projects, so classroom time is especially valuable.
Everyone’s contribution is important.
• Unexcused absences, lateness
– 1 point from your final grade for each 20 cumulative
minutes late for class. Maximum of 2 points per
session, 3 points per day.
– Be sure Molly logs your attendance every day.
• Arrange your appointments etc after or before
class
146. Four Season Harvest
"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a
source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and
coal run out before we tackle that.”
- Thomas Edison (1931 in a letter to Henry Ford)
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
153. “Someday, after we have mastered the
winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we
shall harness for God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in the history of the
world, man will have discovered fire.”
- Teilhard de Chardin
155. A New Story
The changes we need to make for sustainability
– stronger, more vibrant communities, rich
social connections, a sense of purpose and
meaning, less industrial work, renewable
energy, ecocities, coproducing and making,
organic local foods, connection to nature and
to our own inner being - are also the changes
we need to create a better world, the world of
our best dreams and aspirations.
159. Hampden, Maine 1982-1997
Elements Power Company/Maine Energy Partner
Souadabsacook Stream Hydro Plant
Generated 700,000 - 1,000,000 kwh per year
Passive Solar/Superinsulated * Composting Toilet * Rainwater harvesting * solar hot water * Interior
constructed wetland to treat waste water * Local Lumber * Captured waste heat from generator
*
186. Ideal Energy
MUM Graduates and Students – Founded by Troy Van Beek
Design and Consulting
Equipment Installation
Energy Audits and Efficiency Work
Construction and Project Development/Management
Media Production
Successfully executed Sustain Angoon project in Angoon, Alaska
Over$1,000,000 in PV panels sold in last 8 months in Fairfield
204. Today
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.
On Sunday, May 11 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from
renewable.
IOWA is at 25% wind, up from 0 in 2004
In 2014, 75% of all new energy added to the grid was solar
Solar in US is up 120 times since 2003
205. Portugal at 58% Renewables for 2013
(First half of 2013 was 75%)
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs
206. Energy and Sustainability
SL E-101
Maharishi University of Management
Fall 2015
WELCOME BACK!
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
208. “To the best of our knowledge, the sun is
the only star proven to grow vegetables”
-Phillip Scherer. 1973
209. Energy for Regeneration and Renewal
Wholeness of the Course
NATURE AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES ARE POWERED BY SOLAR
ENERGY IN ALL ITS FORMS
210. Introduction and Overview
Add nature of paradigm shifts
Start with potato clock
Future Scenarios Exercise – people move around Dave Jacke
Energy flowing everywhere
Demos
Thermoelectric
Piezio
Solar/fuel cell
It’s why anything happens
Neither created or destroyed, it changes form in a particular and peculiar direction
Intimate link between the expression/development of order and intelligence and energy
Entropy, anti-entropy – primacy of sunlight
Limits to efficency and perpetual motion machines – give carnot example
Energy flows in nature
Nature’s Economy Poster
Trophic level
Atmispheric electricity
Energy flows in =the human economy
Efficiency
Primacy of design
Energy and Sustainbaility
Primacy of renewable energy for sustainability
Tour of technologies and demos
Solar electric
211.
212.
213.
214. The Need to Change
(aka the obligatory hockey stick graph)
215.
216. Electric Transportation: Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf Example
Assume 12,000 miles per year
Leaf gets 5.4 miles per kwh, 2300 kwh per year
Cost for electrictity at 12 cents/kwh:$271
Equivalent cost for gas @$3/gallon: $1200
Like having 70 cent per gallon gasoline
225. Perennial Philosophy
• The first peace, which is most important, is
that which comes from within the souls of
people when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its
powers, and when they realize that at the
center of the universe dwells the great spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere — it
is within each of us.” Black Elk
230. Price Per Watt of Solar Electric (PV) Panels
August 2013 Cost: 80 cents per watt…
be careful what you wish for!
231. Main Points
Energy is essential for sustainability
There is a deep, fundamental, and somewhat
mysterious connection between energy and the
development of order, structure, and intelligence.
It’s how Intelligence becomes intelligent.
Solar Energy is the source of high quality energy for
creating and maintaining order and structure on
Earth.
Solar energy (and all its forms) is abundant and
delivered wirelessly, democratically, and for free
everywhere on earth.
239. Course Structure
• Theory
• Application
• Team projects
• Labs
• Field trip
• Guest speakers
• Career Skills/ Citizenship skills
– Collaborative work using the internet
– Teamwork
– Public speaking
– Digital media
– Writing
240. Course Objectives
Energy and Sustainability Fundamentals
• Understand the physics of energy and power. Be able to perform simple
calculations and to convert units of energy from one measure to another -
ex convert British Thermal Units (BTU) to kilowatt-hours (kwh)
• Understand the laws of thermodynamics, with emphasis on the wide
ranging practical consequences of the second law.
• Get an introduction through selected readings, video, and audio to some of
the leading thinkers and doers in energy and beyond-sustainable,
regenerative design.
• Understand and be able to discuss ecosystem services and the flows of
energy involved in the provision of ecosystem services.
• Understand the broad outlines of the flow of energy in the human
economy, including typical efficiencies of conversion, transport, and end
use.
• Understand and be able to discuss the role of energy in the natural world.
• Understand the primary role of solar energy in the support of life and the
development of form, complexity, and intelligence on Earth
241. Objectives cont’d
Energy Technology
• Understand the concept of energy efficiency.
• Understand the concept of eco-effectiveness and contrast with
efficiency.
• Understand the primacy of design in energy use.
• Understand energy flow in buildings.
• Understand the basic technologies for using renewable energy in
the human economy and their theoretical upper limit efficiencies.
• Be able to design simple solar and wind energy systems
• Get hands-on experience in a variety of renewable energy
technologies, including photovoltaics, wind power, and more.
.
242. Objectives cont’d
Policy, Equity and Justice Issues
• Be able to discuss the social, cultural, political, and
economic aspects (including justice issues)
regarding the widespread implementation of
renewables.
• Introduction to public policy regarding renewable
energy.
• Discuss the effect of patterns of human settlement
on energy use
243. Objectives cont’d
General Education Objectives
• Get experience in digital media and open-
source collaboration through the
development of wikis that document
your group projects and individual work.
• Writing with blogs
• Working in Teams