3. 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
4. “We need a persuasive and visionary yes
rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb
2015
5. “Although the problems are
increasingly complex,
the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple”
- Bill Mollison
developer of Permaculture
Design Methodology
6. “We are charged with
designing the future,
not being victims of it”
- R Buckminster Fuller
7.
8. 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
12. 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
13.
14. Solar Potential
Germany vs Taiwan
Germany (Berlin): 883 kwh per kw
Total Solar Installed in Germany: 38,359 mw
Tawian (Taipei): 1,169 kwh per kw
Total Solar installed capacity in Taiwan: 847 mw
(Iowa: 1310 kwh per kw)
16. 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
17. 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
18.
19. 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.
20.
21. Mark Jacobson’s 100% Renewable
Energy Plan
Mark Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/ Energy Program at Stanford
University, has developed 100% renewable energy plans for all 50 US states. He is
working on a plan for Taiwan, it will be done by the end of 2015.
33. Maharishi Sthapatya Ved:
Buildings that create positive effects
for the occupant and the environment
Siting
Orientation
Placement
Proportion
Daylighting
Materials
Sustainability
35. “Sky courts” designed by Kuala Lumpur architect Ken Yeang are
recesses in the walls of buildings that use breezes and shade to
passively cool buildings in hotter climates.
36. Regenerative Design and Biodiversity
Ecological footprinting and the problem with
minimizing our footprint.
Can the human presence be regenerative, give
back more than it takes, like a tree?
37. Regenerative Design and Biodiversity
What if all the byproducts of human activity were wetlands, wildlands, and beauty?
Big Wet footprints
More connected communities
Regeneration and renewal
Regenerative design and biodiversity
Requires a new way of being and doing in the world, a new world view
Regenerative design has profound implications for biodiversity –
creates habitat rather than destroys it
47. Food and Agriculture
Can industrial agriculture feed the world?
It doesn’t feed the world now.
70% of the world is fed by peasant (small scale,
local) agriculture. We could double or triple their
productivity with techniques of modern organic
agriculture.
48. Havana, Cuba
400,000 people employed in urban agriculture in Cuba
80% of the produce for Havana comes from farms in
the city
62. What Our Students are Doing
Director of Ecovillage in Fiji
Designing water purification systems for the billions without clean water
Work with the government of Mongolia developing Organic Standards
Started renewable energy company that employess 11 graduates
Solar engineer
Farmer
Urban agriculture coordinator, Chicago, NYC
Started another sustainable living program
Started farming non profit in Flint Michigan (Flintopia)
Graduate School:
Green MBA
Masters Graduates in Sustainable Agriculture, Community Development,
Architecture
Phd candidate in international development
65. Tracks
• Agriculture – soil food web and advanced
forms of organic agriculture like biodynamics
• Energy – renewable energy
• Fundamentals – core theory and philosophy of
sustainability
• Policy and changemaking
• Buildings and the built environment
66. Dr Thimmiah
PhD , Biodynamic Agriculture
Board Member, Demeter USA
Author of the Manual of Organic Agriculture for
Bhutan, Bhutan Organic Standards
67. Dr John Ikerd
PhD, Economics
Deep sustainability , sustainable economics
Recent work: Author of the chapter on Canada,
US and Mexico in the UNFAO book for the Year
of the Family Farm
68. Dr Elaine Ingham
BIODIVERSITY IN THE SOIL
Elaine is a world leader in the understanding
and practical application of the Soil Food Web
74. International Outreach
• Finca Luna Nueva, Costa Rica
• Angoon, Alaska
• Nepal
• Bhutan
• South Africa
• Uganda
• India
• Mongolia
• Hawaii
• Taiwan – Nanhua University
• China
89. 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
90.
91. 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.
92. 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.
93. 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.
94. Deep Ecology/Biodiversity
Organisms have a right to exist whether they
provide something of value to humans or not
That they are alive and sentient is enough
It’s all alive
It’s all intelligent
It’s all realtives
95. 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,
Taoism: nothingness Buddhism: emptiness
Higher states of consciousness
96. 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
97. ““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, from Science of Being and Art of Living p. 219-223
98. The most important characteristic of the Eastern
world view - one could almost say the essence
of it - is the awareness of the unity and mutual
interrelation of all things and events, the
experience of all phenomena in the world as
manifestations of a basic oneness. All things
are seen as interdependent and inseparable
parts of this cosmic whole; as different
manifestations of the same ultimate reality.
(Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, 1975)
99. Lao Tzu
The Great Tao flows everywhere ..
All things depend on it for life,
and it does not turn away from them.
One may think of it as the mother of all beneath
Heaven.
We do not know its name, but we call it Tao ...
Deep and still, it seems to have existed forever.
105. 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.
106. Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• Examples
– Coffee
– Car Engine
– Leaky tire
• Materials Cycle
• Energy flows from source to sink
107. 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
113. 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
114. “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
116. 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.
117. Sustainable Living for Taiwan ?
Taiwan has great physical resources – wind, wave
solar energy, geothermal energy, flowing water,
fertile land, wealth.
Taiwan has the strength and resolve of it’s peopl
Taiwan has a history of great accomplishments
What better accomplishment than a Sustainable
Taiwan?
118. How can we learn from each other
through collaboration with Maharishi
University of Management?
