A brief overview of how businesses can use The Natural Step to become more sustainable: energy & water conservation, land use, solid waste reduction, air quality, material sourcing, product stewardship, etc.
Sustainable Guelph is a presentation by Guelph Urban Forest Friends designed to stress the importance of trees in a healthy community, to outline the current development practices that harm trees in an urban environment and to show the benefits of Low Impact Development (LID)
Green Infrastructure Basic Principles & Tools nado-web
Brownfields are vacant, underutilized, or contaminated properties that threaten human and environmental health, depress local economies, and reduce local tax revenues. Integrating green storm water infrastructure (GSI) into brownfields redevelopment has emerged as a national best practice, pushing the boundaries of sustainability ever outward and dramatically increasing the economic, environmental, and social benefits that brownfields revitalization can generate. This session will review salient principles of green infrastructure and showcase a GSI Templates tool, a GSI Decision Tree tool, and a basic project pro-forma worksheet that work in both small and large cities to help plan GSI at brownfield sites.
Eugene Goldfarb, Technical Assistance Provider, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, Manhattan, KS
Elizabeth Limbrick, Project Manager, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Margaret Renas, Lead, Community and Brownfield Redevelopment, Delta Institute, Chicago, IL
Matt Ward, CEO, Sustainable Strategies DC, Washington, DC
Sustainable Guelph is a presentation by Guelph Urban Forest Friends designed to stress the importance of trees in a healthy community, to outline the current development practices that harm trees in an urban environment and to show the benefits of Low Impact Development (LID)
Green Infrastructure Basic Principles & Tools nado-web
Brownfields are vacant, underutilized, or contaminated properties that threaten human and environmental health, depress local economies, and reduce local tax revenues. Integrating green storm water infrastructure (GSI) into brownfields redevelopment has emerged as a national best practice, pushing the boundaries of sustainability ever outward and dramatically increasing the economic, environmental, and social benefits that brownfields revitalization can generate. This session will review salient principles of green infrastructure and showcase a GSI Templates tool, a GSI Decision Tree tool, and a basic project pro-forma worksheet that work in both small and large cities to help plan GSI at brownfield sites.
Eugene Goldfarb, Technical Assistance Provider, Center for Hazardous Substance Research, Manhattan, KS
Elizabeth Limbrick, Project Manager, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Margaret Renas, Lead, Community and Brownfield Redevelopment, Delta Institute, Chicago, IL
Matt Ward, CEO, Sustainable Strategies DC, Washington, DC
A presentation about protecting clean water during construction projects. Presented by Robert Roseen of Geosyntec Consulting during the Buzzards Bay Coalition's 2014 Decision Makers Workshop series. Learn more at www.savebuzzardsbay.org/DecisionMakers
"E-waste is not a problem that is going away any time soon. In fact it is only going to get worse. By 2017, the volume of our thrown away e-products throughout the world is expected to rise by 33 percent from 2012, and we can expect the weight of this garbage to equal eight of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. The amount of e-waste that we produce, including computers, DVD players, cellphones and global positioning products, could rise by a whopping 500% over the next decade in countries such as India. It is crucial to know the effects of e-waste on the environment, and what we can do to stop it.
This is from an article that appeared on All Green Website: http://www.allgreenrecycling.com/blog/effects-of-e-waste-on-our-environment/"
Health Benefits of Green InfrastructureAPA_Planning
Communities across the country can use green infrastructure to promote individual and community health. Featuring three eminent green infrastructure practitioners and researchers, this webinar will discuss the varying health benefits of green infrastructure and how to incorporate health considerations into green infrastructure plans and projects.
Introduction to Permaculture - FELC February 8th 2014Vince Kirchner
Basic of permaculture provided to a group of Master Gardeners, and environmentally aware citizens. Key concepts were presented with a discussion around each topic. This is a precursor to a full PDC class starting in April. www.greatlakespermaculture.com
the delicate topic of Sustainable Development through a
book which I have co-authored and give to the audience also a perspective on
how Education can sensitively provide support for this framework.
I will participate in my role of affiliate professor of management and behavior
for Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France ( www.ggsb.com)
by mark esposito (m.esposito@ht.umass.edu)
Systems-Based Approach to Support Sustainable and Gary Foley, PhD Senior Advisor, Montira Pongsiri, PhD, MPH Environmental Health Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Finance for #SDGs High Level Meeting – #financeforSDGs – Bellagio – 26 February 2015
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting 2011: CARBON Project Update (J. ...Colorado State University
An update on the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP CARBON Project (A cost-effectiveness framework for landscape rehabilitation and carbon sequestration in North Kenya) and the current status of the project. Presentation given by J. Belnap (USGS) at the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting, Golden, CO, April 26-27, 2011.
A presentation about protecting clean water during construction projects. Presented by Robert Roseen of Geosyntec Consulting during the Buzzards Bay Coalition's 2014 Decision Makers Workshop series. Learn more at www.savebuzzardsbay.org/DecisionMakers
"E-waste is not a problem that is going away any time soon. In fact it is only going to get worse. By 2017, the volume of our thrown away e-products throughout the world is expected to rise by 33 percent from 2012, and we can expect the weight of this garbage to equal eight of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. The amount of e-waste that we produce, including computers, DVD players, cellphones and global positioning products, could rise by a whopping 500% over the next decade in countries such as India. It is crucial to know the effects of e-waste on the environment, and what we can do to stop it.
This is from an article that appeared on All Green Website: http://www.allgreenrecycling.com/blog/effects-of-e-waste-on-our-environment/"
Health Benefits of Green InfrastructureAPA_Planning
Communities across the country can use green infrastructure to promote individual and community health. Featuring three eminent green infrastructure practitioners and researchers, this webinar will discuss the varying health benefits of green infrastructure and how to incorporate health considerations into green infrastructure plans and projects.
Introduction to Permaculture - FELC February 8th 2014Vince Kirchner
Basic of permaculture provided to a group of Master Gardeners, and environmentally aware citizens. Key concepts were presented with a discussion around each topic. This is a precursor to a full PDC class starting in April. www.greatlakespermaculture.com
the delicate topic of Sustainable Development through a
book which I have co-authored and give to the audience also a perspective on
how Education can sensitively provide support for this framework.
I will participate in my role of affiliate professor of management and behavior
for Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France ( www.ggsb.com)
by mark esposito (m.esposito@ht.umass.edu)
Systems-Based Approach to Support Sustainable and Gary Foley, PhD Senior Advisor, Montira Pongsiri, PhD, MPH Environmental Health Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Finance for #SDGs High Level Meeting – #financeforSDGs – Bellagio – 26 February 2015
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting 2011: CARBON Project Update (J. ...Colorado State University
An update on the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP CARBON Project (A cost-effectiveness framework for landscape rehabilitation and carbon sequestration in North Kenya) and the current status of the project. Presentation given by J. Belnap (USGS) at the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting, Golden, CO, April 26-27, 2011.
GreenATP ucla anderson business school mp totten 06 11Michael P Totten
Slides from seminar. See article for details: http://www.scribd.com/mtotten6756
Summary:
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 [Raford N. How to build a collective intelligence platform to crowdsource almost anything. Available at: http:news.noahraford.com.
6. Developed by Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt in 1989, the TNS
Framework builds on a basic understanding of what makes
life possible, how our biosphere functions and how we are
part of the earth’s natural systems.
7. Four System Conditions
1. Eliminate contribution to fossil fuel dependence and to
wasteful use of scarce metals and minerals.
Reduce mining and bringing into
use substances from earth’s crust:
• heavy metals such as
cadmium, lead, mercury,
• minerals such as phosphorus
• fossil fuels
These substances and their emissions (CO2 and NOx) are steadily
increasing in human society and nature.
8. 2. Eliminate contribution to dependence upon persistent
chemicals and wasteful use of synthetic substances.
• Humans are manufacturing
synthetic substances faster than
they can be broken down.
• EPA lists more than 70,000
chemicals that are in common use.
• Every U.S. citizen’s fatty tissue
contains at least 700 chemical
contaminants, according to EPA.
9. 3. Eliminate contribution to encroachment upon nature –
land, water, wildlife, forests, soil, ecosystems.
• Human activity is breaking down
natural systems faster than they can
renew themselves.
• Nearly one-half of the Earth’s original
forest cover has been lost.
• Demand for fresh water exceeds the
world’s supply by 17 percent.
10. 4. Meet human needs fairly and efficiently.
• If people around the world cannot meet their basic human needs
(air, water, food, shelter), the first three system conditions will not
be met.
• Within our businesses & communities, our needs include:
• a means of a livelihood
• mobility
• equal treatment
• equal access
• participation in decisions
• safety
• right to peaceful enjoyment of life
• connection with nature
12. Step One
Backcast: Determine
how your company
will look when it’s
completely
sustainable.
How are you going
to get there? What
will have to change?
13. Backcasting
Create Awareness
Develop Baseline
Envision the Future
Set and Manage Priorities
14. Priority Setting in D
Search for measures that respond
“yes” to these three questions:
1. Does this measure proceed in
the right direction with respect to
all system conditions?
2. Does this measure provide a
stepping-stone for future
improvements?
3. Is this measure likely to
produce a sufficient return on
investment to further catalyze
the process?
15. Step Two
Select an
implementation
structure/strategy
for incorporating
sustainable practices
into your operations.
16. Step Three
Create a
measurement tool
to track your
sustainability
initiatives.
17. Business
Applications
Energy Conservation
Material Sourcing
Land Use
Transportation
Water Conservation
Solid Waste Reduction
Air Quality
Storm Water Impact
Life Cycle/Cradle to Cradle
18. By Department
Landscaping Facilities Maintenance
Fleet Management Indoor/Outdoor Lighting
Purchasing Heating/Cooling
Shipping Toilets/Sinks
Cafeteria Janitorial
Human Resources Interiors
Manufacturing Carpet, Paint, Furniture
Upstream & Downstream
Responsibility for Sustainable
Materials
19. Questions?
Lori De La Cruz, ABC
Blue Marble Media, LLC & The Ecological Compass
Lori@BlueMarbleMedia.net
817-233-4093