Sustainability Overview: Global & Island Challenges & Opportunities

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Sustainability Overview: Global and Island
Challenges and Opportunities
Youth Leadership Summit
Martha’s Vineyard June 22n...

Purpose
To build participant‟s capacity to
• Understand the value and benefits to moving toward sustainability
• Identify ...

Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Global Overview
3. Sustainability Science
4. Island Leaders in Sustainability
• Hawaii, USA
• Is...

Introduction – Who am I?
• Former Sustainability &
Resource Coordinator for
Hawaii County (7 years)
• Peace Corps Philippi...

People and Places

Global Overview

Public Awakening…

Seeing the Opportunities –
Business…
Walmart’s Goals
• To be supplied 100 %
by renewable energy
• To create zero waste
• T...

Global Ecological Footprint

Increasing Social/Human Pressure
on Earth Systems
(IGBP, 2004)

Overwhelming Ecosystem Services…

Metaphor of the funnel
Declining
resources and ecosystem
services
Increasing
demand for resources and
ecosystem services

Emerging Sustainability Issues
• Increased operational costs
– (energy, waste disposal, infrastructure & building maintena...

Emerging Opportunities
The metaphor of the funnel also suggests that:
those who find new ways to provide
services and prod...

Sustainability Science

What is Sustainability?
Sustainability: Sustainability can be scientifically defined as a dynamic
state in which global ec...

Cycles of nature
Slow geological cycles
(volcano eruptions and
weathering)
Slow geological cycles
(sedimentation and
miner...

How we influence cycles
Relatively large flows
of materials from the
Earth’s crust
Introduce persistent
compounds foreign ...

4 Sustainability Principles – An
operational definition
...concentrations of substances
extracted from the Earth’s crust,
...

Our Sustainability Situation
The problem is not that we mine, harvest and
consume resources and use ecosystem
services.
It...

4 Sustainability Principles – An
operational definition
...concentrations of substances
extracted from the Earth’s crust,
...

9 human needs
Subsistence Protection Participation
Idleness Affection Understanding
Creativity Identity Freedom

• There is a general belief that humans have all kinds of
needs that are constantly changing over time.
• A deeper look, h...

Example of Island Sustainability Challenge:
Hawai‘i Island

“Ola Na Moku”
“Living Island”
Ho’owaiwai is a Hawaiian
word meaning “to enrich”.
In old Hawai„i it was
everyone‟s responsi...

Island Sustainability Challenge
68%
Electricity
99.9%
Fuel
(transportation)
76%
Materials
85%
Food
Fossil Fuel
Dependence
...

Challenges for Sustainability in
Hawai„i & Islands in General
• Little local energy production
• Waste management
• Little...

Opportunities for Sustainability in
Hawai„i
• Creating local energy self sufficiency
• Creating local food security and di...

Renewable Island

Examples of Island Leaders in Sustainability

Isle of Wight, England

El Hierro, Canary Island, Spain

New Zealand

Iceland

Three Ideas to Explore
Conclusion

1
Live Energy Light

2
Support Local & Eat Fresh

3
What is my gift & purpose?
Learn & Engage!
Who am I?
What does it mean to be a human?
How do we
evolve?

Thank you

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