The document summarizes a presentation given by Jack Spengler on re-envisioning health and sustainability. It discusses the mission of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard to improve health through research, engagement, and considering impacts on people, places, and the planet. It also outlines concepts for measuring sustainability through factors like materials, human capital, natural capital, social capital and knowledge capital. The presentation proposes that sustainable development is inclusive human well-being that does not decline across generations.

1. Center for Health and the
Global Environment
Re-envisioning Health
June 15, 2016 Siena, IT

2. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
JACK SPENGLER
YAMAGUCHI PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
AND HUMAN HABITATION
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND THE
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Jack_Spengler@Harvard.edu
www.CHGEharvard.org

4. The mission of the Center:
Research Evidence
Engaging the Practice
Improve Health of People.
Places and Planet

5. Center Retreat and Catlin’s Solar Cooker

6. Eight Corporate Council Members

7. Reframing Health and
Sustainable Development
Measuring material and energy flows
and
Reducing Environmental Footprint

8. Current Thinking

9. Measuring Up to our Common Future

10. Rethinking Sustainability
S = f(M H N )s*k
• Materials (manufacture capital)
• Human Capital (well-being)
• Natural Capital (eco-services +)
• Social (Integrity of Institutional structures)
• Knowledge (capacity to innovate)
ECON
SOCIETYENVR
After Prof Bill Clark, KSG

11. Core stocks of assets for sustainability:
Manufactured, natural, human, social, knowledge
• Manufactured capital (Materials)
– Housing stock, electrical generating capacity, transport net…
• Natural capital
– Biodiversity, soil quantity & quality, land cover
– Capacity to fix energy from sun, shield UV, regulate climate
• Human capital
– Population size and distribution; its health and education
• Social capital (s)
– Values, norms, laws, institutions… and trust in them
• Knowledge capital(k)
– “Social” knowledge in books, patents, culture;
– Capacity to innovate
After Prof. Bill Clark, KSG

12. How new concepts shape
CHGE’s Programs:
• Manufactured capital (Materials)
– Health and the Built Environment, Energy and Health
• Natural capital
– Health and Nature, Sustainable Tourism and Food
• Human capital
– SHINE---Net Positive Corporations, Ex Ed and Courses
• Social capital (s)
– Alternative Operating Systems for Organizations, Impact
Investing
• Knowledge capital(k)
– Innovation Eco Systems

13. Sustainable Development
is Health
Inclusive Human Well-being,
(ie. well-being across and within
generations that doesn’t decline)

14. Click to edit Master title style

15. Health Benefits of
Low Carbon Energy
Policy
August 2015
Health Co-Benefits of
Carbon Standards for
Existing Power Plants
May 2015
Jonathan Buonocore
Program Leader, Climate,
Energy & Health

16. ENERGY WATER
CLIMATE HEALTH
But Every Product Has Many
Footprints
B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) Flickr: Carvalho;Lourenco

17. ENERGY WATER
CLIMATE HEALTH
But Some Product Have
Benefits
B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) Flickr: Carvalho;Lourenco

18. Assessing impacts and benefits
of a pension fund portfolio
holdings
The Vision of a Net Positive
Perspective for Sustainability

19. • 1 billion international landings now
• 1.8 billion by 2030
• Domestic travel 4 times this number
• Asian market ~ 500 million
Tourism is 10% of the World Economy

21. Health and Well-being: A Business Imperative

23. The Cornerstone April 2016
Journal of Sustainable Finance and Banking
Enhanced Analytics
Well-Being Is Taking Business for a Run
By Eileen McNeely, RN, C., M.S., PhD, Co-Director, SHINE, Center for Health and
the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The business case for well-being
translates into avoiding
reputational risks and ensuring
that legal and regulatory
requirements are met.
We effectively skip over all the “good things” that
human well-being generates, like mastery,
autonomy, purpose, good health, safety, security,
trust, and belonging.

24. Positive Human Opportunities
Responsibility
Opportunities
Positive Environmental
Opportunities
Human
Responsibility Opportunities
Injury/
Illness
Well-Being
-
+
Health
Promotion
Work-Life
Experiences
This Impact AND That Impact

25. Amabile & Kramer 2011; Deci & Ryan 1992, etc.
Opportunities build & sustain engagement
Promoting Flourishing  Sustained Action

26. Progress on Meaningful Work
Business success vs. failure
← Motivated, Committed, Creative,
Collaborative workforce
← Strong “inner work life”
Positive emotions
Strong internal (intrinsic) motivation
Favorable towards colleagues and work
← Empowered to succeed at meaningful work

28. Handprints AND Footprints
Your footprint remains in the limelight and shares it with your
handprint

29. The Net Positive Project

30. To be Net-Positive, we need
to Give more than we Take

31. Harm Reduction AND Benefit Creation

32. Handprints Defined
Handprints are positive impacts
we cause to happen
relative to “business as usual.”

33. Handprints are defined
in relation to Footprints, so that:
[Handprint > Footprint]  NetPositive
• Built on LCA using the same metrics
as Footprints
• Same Impact Dimensions: Supply
Chains and Life Cycles

34. 3 ways to create
Handprints

35. Step 1: Reduce your own footprint:
Improve worker health and well-being in your own operations
Reduce risks, Improve working conditions, worker health and
well-being in supply chains

36. Humanity's
Footprint
We’ve constrained
The good we can do
by the harm we’re now causing
Your footprint

37. Step 2: Help anyone/everyone else
reduce their footprint
Promote adoption of practices and innovations that
Improve worker health and well-being and Reduce risks
to other operations outside your footprint
Engage customers and others in more effective use of goods and
services to increase health and well-being
Grow demand for / increase assess to
NetPositive goods and services

38. Step 3: Think outside the foot!
Take generative actions:
Increase well-being beyond “normal”
(beyond reduction in disability or “quality deficit”)
Promote human development and thriving
Generate public good spill-overs

39. HANDPRINTING EXAMPLES
Innovating around an Existing Product
Innovating Existing Product (demand unchanged)
Shifting Demand (product performance unchanged)
Innovating in ways that also change demand

40. Catalyzing Systemic Handprints
We’ve come to realize that
“Just doing our own bit” won’t cut it.

41. I can check and properly inflate my tires.
This will reduce my carbon footprint by 1%.

42. Scale by 100
Get 5 friends to join me with gauges and
pumps at a supermarket parking lot one
afternoon.

43. Scale by… 1000?
Hand the lucky drivers a card about handprinting,
encouraging them to do their own “pump day.”

44. Scale by a mind-boggling amount
If Handprinter.org has a crowd-sourced, crowd-
assessed database of action ideas, and humanity is
striving for NetPositive.

45. Design for Ripple Effects
Harness the abundance you create
to create more abundance.

46. Use 9 months savings from 1
donated blanket to:
Buy and give 2 more blankets.
Support a school activity.

47. Free Download on LPC
Website
Detailed explanation of
Handprinting Imperatives
Case Studies
Updates / expansions

50. BUREO SKATEBOARDS | BOARD + SHADES
LIVING PRODUCT PILOT
HANDPRINTING EXAMPLE
New Product, Start-up

51. Photo Courtesy Gridam..com
Humans dump 8
MILLION tons of
plastic in the
ocean each
year.
Fishing nets =
10% of that
waste
News.NationalGeographic.com

52. Photo Courtesy of Flickr user Marc Lagneau
EVERY
BOARD ≈
300 FT OF
FISH NETS
49,620sf
recycled so far

55. Two Handprinting
Actions:
100% Recycled Content
Energy Efficient Manufacturing

56. Municipality of Laje, Bahia, Brazil
Context: Marginal Cassava Farming

57. Project Opportunity
Biopolymer film based on Cassava Starch
Engage:
Strengthen Cooperative engaged with
farmers
Create Shared Value:
Introduce Stable Market, Stable Prices,
for starch
Introduce local production of
Starch, and Biopolymer from starch

58. Context for a Biopolymer:
High Social Risks in Cassava Farming in Brazil
Social theme Level of risk from
Social Hotspots Database,
in Cassava prod.
Child labor Very High
Forced labor High
Sanitation Medium
Non-Fatal Injuries High
Fatal injuries Very High
Wage being lower than country's
non-poverty guidelines
Very High
Wage being lower than country
minimum wage: low
Very High
Wage being lower than $2/day Medium

60. Five Responses to an
Initial Assessment of Social Risks
Collect actual data from Hot Spots
Audit
“Cut and Run”
Engage
Create Shared Value

61. Actual Risks in Cassava Farming in Laje
with Operation of Healthy Cooperative

62. Positive Impacts
300,000 worker-hours per year
200 Families
5-10% of total cradle-to-gate risk-hours impacted

63. More from you

64. Learn more:
www.CHGEHarvard.org
facebook.com/CHGEHarvard
@CHGEHarvard
CHGEHarvard
Center for Health and the Global Environment
at Harvard Chan School

65. SHINE & ILFI have jointly released the
Handprint Calculator
Free, Web-based; downloadable available
Upload/enter pieces, explore/see the whole
Interactive, what-if, sensitivity/uncertainty
Compare handprints of multiple innovations
Bring Handprinting to life, for yourself and others