This document discusses various topics related to sustainability and climate change, including: - Human activities have come to dominate planetary processes, marking a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. - Wildlife populations have declined 60% globally since 1970 due to human factors like pollution, deforestation, and climate change. - Gases like carbon dioxide trap heat in the atmosphere and drive global warming, with impacts like rising sea levels and stronger extreme weather. - The UN's IPCC warns that keeping warming under 1.5°C will require global carbon pollution to be cut 45% by 2030 and reach zero by 2050.

1. Why Sam Always
Yells About
Sustainbility

2. Today’s Goal
Identifying the problem(s) Possible solutions

3. You Might Hear
the Word
“Anthropocene”
“The Anthropocene marks a new period in which our
collective activities dominate the planetary
machinery.”

4. 60% of world's wildlife
has been wiped out
since 1970

5. Factors of the
Anthropocene
• Radioactive material
• Plastic
• Concrete
• Nitrogen
• Deforestation
• Chicken bones
• CARBON!!!!

6. How Global Warming
Works
Certain gases in the atmosphere
block heat from escaping. Long-
lived gases that remain semi-
permanently in the atmosphere
and do not respond physically or
chemically to changes in
temperature are described as
“forcing” climate change.

7. A few scary charts…

10. Climate Change Victims Today

11. Environmentalism Is a
Social Justice Issue

12. Have you heard someone
say, “We have 12 years to
stop climate change”?

13. International Panel on
Climate Change
• A bunch of smart scientists,
commissioned by the UN to
write reports on climate
change
• Their report came out in
October, 2018
• They found that global
warming greater than 1.5
degrees Celsius will be
catastrophic for humans
• (It’s already really bad)

14. In order to keep global
warming under 1.5 degrees
Celsius…
Carbon pollution would have to be cut by 45% by 2030 and come down
to zero by 2050.

15. What Is
Sustainability?

16. Systems
Thinking

17. The Wedge
Model to
Drawdown

18. One Example of a
Sustainability Tool…

19. Tenets of Sustainable Thinking
1. Straight-line thinking  Systems-based thinking
2. Short-term, quick-fix thinking  Long-term thinking focused on
fundamental solutions
3. Technology can save us  Borrow-use-return systems can save us
4. More is better  Small, flexible, self-governing units are better
5. Cheaper is cheaper  Pay full costs now
6. Less bad is good enough  Totally sustainable is good
7. Away means gone  There is no away
8. My actions don’t matter  Every action matters
9. All for one, none for all  All for all, and all for one
10. Iron-cage thinking  Thinking can be changed at any time

20. A Model for Behavioral Change
1. Disinterest
2. Deliberation
3. Design
4. Doing
5. Defending

22. Individual Behavior

23. Direct Action

24. Political Action

25. Transportation

26. Pescetarianism

27. Vegetarianism

28. Why Compost?
● Lessen waste in landfills and
decomposition that leads to
increased emissions
● GrowNYC: Food is 21% of the
city’s waste stream
● Food becomes organic waste:
fertilizer, soil, nutrients
● What can I compost?
○ Generally, any food waste with
the exception of:
■ Meat, bones, oils
■ Dairy
■ Paper products with wax lining

29. How can I help?
● Compost where you
live
○ City collection
■ Brown buckets with
secure lids
○ City-
sponsored/independe
nt drop offs
■ Farmers markets, co-
ops
○ Your home!
■ Compost in your
backyard

30. The most affordable
means of
transportation
Healthy way
to start the day
Reliable, clean
and fast
Why bike?

31. When there is public and government initiative...
Sevilla, Spain
- 50 miles in 18 months
- 32 € million
- 5,000 parking spots
Since then...
- Bike share is part of the
culture
- 70,000 commuters
- 10% of transportation
- Still a lot to improve

33. What you can do...
Join RapidSauce in May for Bike to Work Month!

34. What you can do TODAY