The document discusses the differences between an extractive economy based on fossil fuels versus a clean economy based on renewable energy sources. An extractive economy relies on depleting resources like oil, gas, and coal for energy, plastics, fertilizers, and transportation needs. In contrast, a clean economy utilizes replenishing resources like solar, wind, and biomass. The document argues that the extractive economy faces rising costs as supplies dwindle over time, while a clean economy based on renewable ideas and technologies could see increasing returns. It presents the growth of the clean energy economy through innovations in technologies, policies, and markets as a major market opportunity to fill the gap left by declining fossil fuel resources.
This document discusses natural resources and how they are used. It defines natural resources as things from the environment that can be used by people. Natural resources can be raw materials that are processed into products, or they can be renewable resources like wheat that are harvested, or nonrenewable resources that cannot be replaced. Key industries like manufacturing and agriculture utilize natural resources and capital resources to produce goods and services using human resources.
The document discusses researching renewable energy sources like solar power. It notes that the sun provides more energy to Earth in two hours than humanity uses in a year. It also mentions that converting to worldwide wind and solar power could save the world an average of $4,195 per person per year in avoided costs. The document proposes developing an energy efficiency cost calculator product that could sense different energy types, calculate amounts and costs, and compare to other energy options.
Este documento describe un proyecto llamado "La Pepa y Riego" que tiene como objetivo promover y difundir los vínculos entre la localidad de Las Cabezas de San Juan y la Constitución española de 1812 conocida como "La Pepa", a través de la figura del General Rafael del Riego. El proyecto involucra al centro Guadalinfo de Las Cabezas de San Juan y busca apoyar la formación de voluntarios, difundir el proyecto a través de medios digitales, y organizar eventos para conmemor
Twitter es una aplicación web gratuita de microblogging que permite a los usuarios enviar y recibir mensajes breves de texto, llamados tweets, para comunicarse en tiempo real con otras personas. Fue fundada en 2006 por Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams y Noah Glass con el objetivo de proporcionar una nueva forma de comunicación a través de preguntas y actualizaciones de hasta 140 caracteres compartidas vía web, teléfono, correo electrónico u otras aplicaciones. Los usuarios pueden utilizar Twitter para encontrar noticias, eventos e incluso trabajo, así como para fines de marketing
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The document discusses the differences between an extractive economy based on fossil fuels versus a clean economy based on renewable energy sources. An extractive economy relies on depleting resources like oil, gas, and coal for energy, plastics, fertilizers, and transportation needs. In contrast, a clean economy utilizes replenishing resources like solar, wind, and biomass. The document argues that the extractive economy faces rising costs as supplies dwindle over time, while a clean economy based on renewable ideas and technologies could see increasing returns. It presents the growth of the clean energy economy through innovations in technologies, policies, and markets as a major market opportunity to fill the gap left by declining fossil fuel resources.
This document discusses natural resources and how they are used. It defines natural resources as things from the environment that can be used by people. Natural resources can be raw materials that are processed into products, or they can be renewable resources like wheat that are harvested, or nonrenewable resources that cannot be replaced. Key industries like manufacturing and agriculture utilize natural resources and capital resources to produce goods and services using human resources.
The document discusses researching renewable energy sources like solar power. It notes that the sun provides more energy to Earth in two hours than humanity uses in a year. It also mentions that converting to worldwide wind and solar power could save the world an average of $4,195 per person per year in avoided costs. The document proposes developing an energy efficiency cost calculator product that could sense different energy types, calculate amounts and costs, and compare to other energy options.
Este documento describe un proyecto llamado "La Pepa y Riego" que tiene como objetivo promover y difundir los vínculos entre la localidad de Las Cabezas de San Juan y la Constitución española de 1812 conocida como "La Pepa", a través de la figura del General Rafael del Riego. El proyecto involucra al centro Guadalinfo de Las Cabezas de San Juan y busca apoyar la formación de voluntarios, difundir el proyecto a través de medios digitales, y organizar eventos para conmemor
Twitter es una aplicación web gratuita de microblogging que permite a los usuarios enviar y recibir mensajes breves de texto, llamados tweets, para comunicarse en tiempo real con otras personas. Fue fundada en 2006 por Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams y Noah Glass con el objetivo de proporcionar una nueva forma de comunicación a través de preguntas y actualizaciones de hasta 140 caracteres compartidas vía web, teléfono, correo electrónico u otras aplicaciones. Los usuarios pueden utilizar Twitter para encontrar noticias, eventos e incluso trabajo, así como para fines de marketing
A apresentação discute as vantagens de usar o CMS Joomla! para desenvolvimento de sites ao invés de programar do zero. Ele resume opiniões de terceiros que recomendam Joomla! por ter atualizações frequentes de uma grande comunidade, além de documentação, plugins e segurança. A apresentação também fornece recursos sobre Joomla! como sites oficial, de extensões, tutoriais e documentação.
Ecological economics differs from mainstream economics in several key ways:
1) It views the economy as a subsystem of larger ecological systems, not separate from the environment.
2) It focuses on the throughput of resources and adheres to the laws of thermodynamics, concerned with resource depletion and waste assimilation.
3) It considers the scale of the economy relative to ecosystems and believes uneconomic growth can occur when scale becomes too large.
This document provides an outline of key concepts in ecological economics, including:
1) It compares classical, neoclassical, and ecological economic worldviews and their treatment of natural resources.
2) It discusses concepts like carrying capacity, limits to growth, and natural capital accounting.
3) It examines population issues, scarcity, and tools like cost-benefit analysis and emissions trading to incorporate environmental costs.
Meeting Consumers expectations for Natural and Organic products (NATURAL BEAU...Michel Gutsatz
The document discusses emerging trends in consumer expectations for natural and organic products. It outlines 3 main trends: 1) Growing health and safety concerns are driving demand for reassurance. 2) Health has become a greater priority due to longevity and social norms emphasizing self-control. 3) Consumers are more educated due to access to information, and now demand transparency from brands. The document also warns of potential pitfalls like greenwashing that brands must avoid to meet rising consumer standards for natural and organic claims.
This document discusses the rise of green living as a new positive collective ideal shaping consumer expectations and behavior in the 21st century. It outlines 5 major consumer trends, barriers to green living adoption, and strategies for companies to address changing consumer values around health, transparency, social responsibility and environmental protection. Specifically, companies must understand and respect 4 core values of green living: respect, transparency, commitment and education to build trust and meet rising consumer standards.
The document discusses the transition from an extractive economy based on declining energy resources to a clean economy based on renewable energy sources. It outlines how 21st century tools like information and communication technologies, social media, and innovations in finance can help develop clean economic growth. It also discusses how principles from biomimicry, which studies nature's designs to solve human problems, could provide a model for sustainable economic reform that fits within natural systems.
1) The linear economy model of produce, use, dispose, and pollute is unsustainable due to rising population, increased resource use, decreasing product lifecycles, consumption outpacing resource regeneration, and growing waste.
2) A circular economy aims to eliminate waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems through strategies like maintenance and sharing, reuse and redesign, refurbishment and remanufacturing, recycling, and cascading materials to different uses.
3) A circular economy distinguishes between technical and biological cycles and redefines consumerism as access over ownership, promising resource savings, job growth, and economic growth through increased circulation of materials and products.
Energy drives the economy, and high oil prices can lead to recessions as more money must be spent on fuel, leaving less to spend elsewhere. An extractive economy based on declining resources leads to shrinking jobs and prosperity, while a clean economy powered by renewable sources can create new jobs and increasing prosperity. Transitioning to a clean energy economy represents a huge market opportunity that can be realized through innovations in technology, policy, and markets.
Agriculture faces major challenges to feed the world's growing population with less resources due to climate change. Global food production will need to increase by 100% with reduced land and water usage. Possible interventions include innovative greenhouse technology, genetically modified crops, improved agronomy practices, and strengthened institutions. Collaboration between government, industry, and knowledge institutions through public-private partnerships will be key to developing sustainable solutions through international cooperation, education, and research programs. With the right approaches, agriculture has the potential to meet future global food demand.
Peter Victor: Managing without Growth - Slower by Design, not DisasterKasvu murroksessa
1. The document discusses moving away from prioritizing economic growth and instead managing economies with slower or no growth in a sustainable way.
2. It argues that the economy is a subsystem of the biosphere and that the current scale and intensity of the economy places an excessive burden on the environment.
3. While technology can help reduce this impact, changes are also needed to address the scale of resource use and production, as well as growing inequality between rich and poor countries. The document presents some scenarios and policies for managing economies without continuous growth.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in environmental economics. It discusses how the field views the relationship between the environment and the economy. The economy is seen as embedded within and dependent on ecosystem services from the environment. Neoclassical economics is critiqued for failing to account for environmental externalities and assuming infinite growth. Environmental economists aim to integrate environmental factors and sustainability into economic models and decision making.
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
1) The document discusses ecological footprints, which measure the resource consumption and waste production of individuals, populations, and economies. It examines the disparities between footprints of developed and developing nations.
2) A case study finds that an American claiming to be environmentally conscious has a footprint of 3.2 planets, larger than most developing nations. Saudi Arabia uses 4.07 hectares per person primarily for energy.
3) The large footprints of developed nations have global impacts like increased hunger in developing worlds with constrained resources and pollution affecting environments and living standards. Equity in resource distribution is an ethical issue addressed.
The document discusses how economic growth as currently defined cannot continue indefinitely due to finite resources and environmental limits. It outlines how factors both within and external to the financial system, such as declining EROI for energy sources, peak oil, and resource depletion, signal the end of economic growth as we have known it. The text advocates for reforming economic theories away from a growth-based model to an ecological economics framework that incorporates environmental impacts. It also presents strategies for communities to pursue such as transition initiatives, local currencies, and developing resilience and sustainability.
The document defines common economic terms related to allocation of resources, markets, efficiency, growth, and the relationship between the economy and the environment. Key terms include throughput, which refers to the flow of resources and energy through the economy and back to the environment, externalities which are unintended costs or benefits to third parties from economic activities, and scale which refers to the size of the economy relative to the environment that supports it.
The document discusses sustainability and the green economy from a historical perspective. It argues that we need to move from a quantitative focus on money and material accumulation to a qualitative focus on well-being and regeneration. A key aspect is redefining wealth and the economy to focus on human and environmental needs through approaches like extended producer responsibility, the service economy, and building community-based local economies.
Designed for a course exploring Global Challenges, this slideshow seeks to inform other about the implications of the food we eat, promote awareness of environmental concerns, and offer advice on how to get involved in this issue.
The document discusses sustainability and how societies can transition to more sustainable models. It notes that past societies were more sustainable out of necessity, as people had to repair and reuse due to limited income and resources. However, modern societies encourage overconsumption, short-term thinking, and wasteful practices. To regain sustainability, societies must reduce waste, only use resources as needed, embrace recycling and repair, and shift to a maintenance focus rather than constant consumption. Making this transition will require leadership, education, incentives, and collective action, but can lead to improved quality of life while respecting environmental limits.
This document discusses the concept of a circular economy through three main points:
1. Economic strategies for a circular economy focus on preserving resources and managing flows rather than maximizing production and consumption. This includes producer responsibility and addressing externalities.
2. The principles of a circular economy emphasize maintaining the value and usability of resources for as long as possible through reuse, repair, refurbishment and recycling. This decouples economic growth from finite resource use.
3. Transitioning to a circular economy could generate significant economic benefits including material savings, new business and investment opportunities, additional jobs, and improved trade balances for countries that adopt circular strategies.
This document provides an overview of key economic concepts related to scarcity and decision-making. It discusses that economics is the study of how people satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources. Scarcity means resources are limited and this creates opportunity costs when making choices. The circular flow model shows how households and businesses interact in markets for goods, services, and factors of production. Economics helps individuals and societies make rational decisions by understanding costs, benefits, and trade-offs.
Ecological economics differs from mainstream economics in several key ways:
1) It views the economy as a subsystem of larger ecological systems, not separate from the environment.
2) It focuses on the throughput of resources and adheres to the laws of thermodynamics, concerned with resource depletion and waste assimilation.
3) It considers the scale of the economy relative to ecosystems and believes uneconomic growth can occur when scale becomes too large.
This document provides an outline of key concepts in ecological economics, including:
1) It compares classical, neoclassical, and ecological economic worldviews and their treatment of natural resources.
2) It discusses concepts like carrying capacity, limits to growth, and natural capital accounting.
3) It examines population issues, scarcity, and tools like cost-benefit analysis and emissions trading to incorporate environmental costs.
Meeting Consumers expectations for Natural and Organic products (NATURAL BEAU...Michel Gutsatz
The document discusses emerging trends in consumer expectations for natural and organic products. It outlines 3 main trends: 1) Growing health and safety concerns are driving demand for reassurance. 2) Health has become a greater priority due to longevity and social norms emphasizing self-control. 3) Consumers are more educated due to access to information, and now demand transparency from brands. The document also warns of potential pitfalls like greenwashing that brands must avoid to meet rising consumer standards for natural and organic claims.
This document discusses the rise of green living as a new positive collective ideal shaping consumer expectations and behavior in the 21st century. It outlines 5 major consumer trends, barriers to green living adoption, and strategies for companies to address changing consumer values around health, transparency, social responsibility and environmental protection. Specifically, companies must understand and respect 4 core values of green living: respect, transparency, commitment and education to build trust and meet rising consumer standards.
The document discusses the transition from an extractive economy based on declining energy resources to a clean economy based on renewable energy sources. It outlines how 21st century tools like information and communication technologies, social media, and innovations in finance can help develop clean economic growth. It also discusses how principles from biomimicry, which studies nature's designs to solve human problems, could provide a model for sustainable economic reform that fits within natural systems.
1) The linear economy model of produce, use, dispose, and pollute is unsustainable due to rising population, increased resource use, decreasing product lifecycles, consumption outpacing resource regeneration, and growing waste.
2) A circular economy aims to eliminate waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems through strategies like maintenance and sharing, reuse and redesign, refurbishment and remanufacturing, recycling, and cascading materials to different uses.
3) A circular economy distinguishes between technical and biological cycles and redefines consumerism as access over ownership, promising resource savings, job growth, and economic growth through increased circulation of materials and products.
Energy drives the economy, and high oil prices can lead to recessions as more money must be spent on fuel, leaving less to spend elsewhere. An extractive economy based on declining resources leads to shrinking jobs and prosperity, while a clean economy powered by renewable sources can create new jobs and increasing prosperity. Transitioning to a clean energy economy represents a huge market opportunity that can be realized through innovations in technology, policy, and markets.
Agriculture faces major challenges to feed the world's growing population with less resources due to climate change. Global food production will need to increase by 100% with reduced land and water usage. Possible interventions include innovative greenhouse technology, genetically modified crops, improved agronomy practices, and strengthened institutions. Collaboration between government, industry, and knowledge institutions through public-private partnerships will be key to developing sustainable solutions through international cooperation, education, and research programs. With the right approaches, agriculture has the potential to meet future global food demand.
Peter Victor: Managing without Growth - Slower by Design, not DisasterKasvu murroksessa
1. The document discusses moving away from prioritizing economic growth and instead managing economies with slower or no growth in a sustainable way.
2. It argues that the economy is a subsystem of the biosphere and that the current scale and intensity of the economy places an excessive burden on the environment.
3. While technology can help reduce this impact, changes are also needed to address the scale of resource use and production, as well as growing inequality between rich and poor countries. The document presents some scenarios and policies for managing economies without continuous growth.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in environmental economics. It discusses how the field views the relationship between the environment and the economy. The economy is seen as embedded within and dependent on ecosystem services from the environment. Neoclassical economics is critiqued for failing to account for environmental externalities and assuming infinite growth. Environmental economists aim to integrate environmental factors and sustainability into economic models and decision making.
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
1) The document discusses ecological footprints, which measure the resource consumption and waste production of individuals, populations, and economies. It examines the disparities between footprints of developed and developing nations.
2) A case study finds that an American claiming to be environmentally conscious has a footprint of 3.2 planets, larger than most developing nations. Saudi Arabia uses 4.07 hectares per person primarily for energy.
3) The large footprints of developed nations have global impacts like increased hunger in developing worlds with constrained resources and pollution affecting environments and living standards. Equity in resource distribution is an ethical issue addressed.
The document discusses how economic growth as currently defined cannot continue indefinitely due to finite resources and environmental limits. It outlines how factors both within and external to the financial system, such as declining EROI for energy sources, peak oil, and resource depletion, signal the end of economic growth as we have known it. The text advocates for reforming economic theories away from a growth-based model to an ecological economics framework that incorporates environmental impacts. It also presents strategies for communities to pursue such as transition initiatives, local currencies, and developing resilience and sustainability.
The document defines common economic terms related to allocation of resources, markets, efficiency, growth, and the relationship between the economy and the environment. Key terms include throughput, which refers to the flow of resources and energy through the economy and back to the environment, externalities which are unintended costs or benefits to third parties from economic activities, and scale which refers to the size of the economy relative to the environment that supports it.
The document discusses sustainability and the green economy from a historical perspective. It argues that we need to move from a quantitative focus on money and material accumulation to a qualitative focus on well-being and regeneration. A key aspect is redefining wealth and the economy to focus on human and environmental needs through approaches like extended producer responsibility, the service economy, and building community-based local economies.
Designed for a course exploring Global Challenges, this slideshow seeks to inform other about the implications of the food we eat, promote awareness of environmental concerns, and offer advice on how to get involved in this issue.
The document discusses sustainability and how societies can transition to more sustainable models. It notes that past societies were more sustainable out of necessity, as people had to repair and reuse due to limited income and resources. However, modern societies encourage overconsumption, short-term thinking, and wasteful practices. To regain sustainability, societies must reduce waste, only use resources as needed, embrace recycling and repair, and shift to a maintenance focus rather than constant consumption. Making this transition will require leadership, education, incentives, and collective action, but can lead to improved quality of life while respecting environmental limits.
This document discusses the concept of a circular economy through three main points:
1. Economic strategies for a circular economy focus on preserving resources and managing flows rather than maximizing production and consumption. This includes producer responsibility and addressing externalities.
2. The principles of a circular economy emphasize maintaining the value and usability of resources for as long as possible through reuse, repair, refurbishment and recycling. This decouples economic growth from finite resource use.
3. Transitioning to a circular economy could generate significant economic benefits including material savings, new business and investment opportunities, additional jobs, and improved trade balances for countries that adopt circular strategies.
This document provides an overview of key economic concepts related to scarcity and decision-making. It discusses that economics is the study of how people satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources. Scarcity means resources are limited and this creates opportunity costs when making choices. The circular flow model shows how households and businesses interact in markets for goods, services, and factors of production. Economics helps individuals and societies make rational decisions by understanding costs, benefits, and trade-offs.
3. Extractive Economy vs. Clean Economy Extractive Energy Economy Plastics, fertilizers, pesticides Transports all goods (including food) and people, “runs” the global economy
10. Clean Increasing returns, not diminishing returns Ideas as “base” for economy means a “sustainable” source; as the base increases, value and opportunity increase Clean
13. The Clean Economy: Huge Market Opportunity This “gap” can be “filled” by energy efficiency and clean energy solutions “Peak Oil” is not a question of “if” but “when…”
14. The Clean Energy Economy Innovations can occur in all three areas: Tech, Policy, & Markets Technologies Reducing Risk Mobilizing Capital Clean Energy Economic Growth Policies Markets Source: NREL
Editor's Notes
A bit academic and “wonky,” but this visual shows that as a percentage of our “budget” is spent on our energy needs, this impacts our ability to spend on other things. So, you see that when oil is expensive a bigger part of our budget goes for that necessity and we have less to spend on other things that drive our economy. Thus, you see recessions correlated with high oil prices.
You will most likely be a grandparent when oil runs out; we should be thinking about what our grandchildren’s life will be like if we are not building our clean economy now…The folks that will make more money as the extractive resources become more scarce will most likely be projecting more potential future reserves and/or greater timeframes for availability, but if we know a better way of doing things now, shouldn’t we be thinking about our kids and our grandkids now too?
The North Pacific gyre is a concentration of plastic waste in the ocean that is the size of Greenland. The beauty of a clean economy is that this waste can create a potential profit for a business that uses this as a feedstock for energy needs….Right now, in our extractive global economy, this mess is just a mess.
The visual in the bottom right-hand of the slide is the “core” principle in sustainability. Maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing waste creates increased product and thus increased profits. As an added “bonus,” waste itself can be converted into energy with the right systems and technology. The overall beauty of a cyclical approach to business production models is that they mirror the cyclical way that the earth “functions,” making us a responsible part of our planet.
Deutsche Bank is a pretty well respected global institution. They are very interested in the potential risks associated with rising oil prices as they are so tied to economic health.
We have a better way to do things…if you had the choice to ride across country in a horse and buggy or to ride across country in a horse-less carriage (what we called cars back when autos were the competition) which would you pick? “Alternative” energy is a recognition that clean, renewable sources of energy are the competition for extractive energy, but it is a choice that an informed person will likely make when given the options. This movement towards clean energy is so important when we realize that as oil and other extractive energy feedstocks decline, there will not be enough available to meet growing demand. This gap between available resources and need can be made up by providing other sources of non-extracted energy and energy efficiency measures (getting more “bang for our buck” from the energy we are using).
Technology: Innovation usually occurs in the lab, more efficient solar cells, better designs for wind power (jet stream), etc.Policies: Innovation example: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) where up front costs are paid for by the city, and paid back through property taxes (like property assessments that goes towards the public good of streetlights and sidewalks)Markets: Innovation example: Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) where a company (manufacturing factory, for example) would agree to purchase power from the solar company that installs the building’s solar system at a set rate for a set number of years, and the solar company finances the up-front costs of the system itself. WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR “TECHNOLOGY” DEVELOPMENTS TO ADDRESS THE “HIGH COST” ISSUE….Would you pay for your $250K house in cash up front? There is a better way to do things… All of these working in synergy together accelerates the development of the clean energy economy