The document discusses the concept of sustainability as defined by the Brundtland Commission, emphasizing the need for resources to be managed responsibly to benefit future generations. It outlines practical strategies for sustainable practices in parking technologies including waste elimination, renewable energy usage, and integration into corporate culture. Additionally, it highlights the mission of the GPC Sustainable Technologies Committee to identify and promote sustainable parking technologies and develop industry standards.

1. Sustainability
A Green Parking Primer
January 16, 2013 - 2pm EST
Presented by Jonas Broth
For discussion by the
GPC Sustainable Technologies Committee

2. Brundtland Commission
Sustainability means: “Meeting
the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their
own needs.”
Brundtland Commission report, “Our Common Future”
- 1987 UN WCED

3. Brundtland Definition
• Intentionally weak garnering the most chance
of acceptance
• Ambiguous, open to interpretation
• Does not address “carrying capacity”

4. Sustainability revised in Economic Terms
1. Harvest renewable resources only at the speed at
which they regenerate.
2. Limit wastes to the assimilative capacity of local
ecosystems.
3. Direct profits from the use of non-renewables
towards developing suitable renewable substitutes.
-Herman Daly

5. "Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the
question shall always be answered from the standpoint
of the greatest good of the greatest number over the
longest run."
Gifford Pinchot
"When the Gay Nineties began, the common
word for our forests was "inexhaustible."
To waste timber was a virtue and not a crime.
There would always be plenty of timber....
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation
as normal and second growth as a delusion of
fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea
had ever entered their heads.”

9. Universal Laws of Thermodynamics
• First Law: Energy can neither be created nor
destroyed:
– You can’t get something from nothing
• Second Law: Entropy
– All systems move towards disorder

12. Waste = food

13. Linear Production Model
Take – Make – Waste
Source: Un Food and Agriculture Organization

14. Cyclical Industrial Process
(Closed Loop)
Cradle to Cradle

15. Measuring Sustainability
• Triple Bottom Line Accounting (TBL)
– Social, Environmental and Financial Performance
People, Planet, Profit

16. Interface
Carpet Tile
“Mission Zero”

17. Seven Faces of Mount Sustainability
1. Eliminate waste.
2. Eliminate harmful emissions. (working up the supply chain)
3. Move towards 100% renewable energy.
4. Create closed loop processes.
5. Resource efficient transportation;
from commuting to logistics to plant siting.
6. Integrate Sustainability into our corporate culture.
7.Pioneer new business models of sustainability.

18. Profits Up, Emissions Down
• Net GHG Emissions
Down 82%
• Sales 66%
• Profits doubled
• Fossil Fuel Use 60%
• Costs $400M

19. • Saved $1M/yr by removing light bulbs from employee
soft drink machines
• Saved $2.6M/yr by putting LED lighting in freezers
• Installed 65 MW of solar on store rooftops
– Leading all other US retailers
• Installed APUs for overnight truckers
– Eliminated 100,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions,
– reduce diesel fuel consumption by 10 million gallons, and
– saved $25 million per year.
• Force of Nature, Edward Humes

20. Sustainable Technologies
• The search for greater efficiencies
• Find profit niches through improved
efficiencies
• Differentiate yourself from the competition

25. Green Parking…

26. Sustainable Technologies Product
Coverage Areas
• Less Hazardous Chemicals • Mechanical Systems & Controls
– Environmentally Responsible Cleaning – Energy Efficient CO Ventilation System
Products/Systems – Environmentally Responsible Office and Booth
HVAC System
– No or Low VOC Coatings, Paints, & – Indoor Air Monitoring/Healthy Office
Sealants Environment
• Decreased Idling Technologies – Environmentally Safe Fire Suppression System
– Automated/Cashierless Payment • Integrated Renewable Energy
System – Solar, Wind, Other
– Parking Guidance Systems – EV Charging Stations (Free and Pay Per Charge)
– External Parking Guidance and – EV Charging w/ Integrated Clean Energy
Wayfinding – Clean Energy Storage for Sustainable Power
– Sustainable Power- Net-Zero Energy Building
• Vehicle Technologies – Roofing Systems (Green roofs, Low albido
– Alternative Fuel, Hybrid and Alternative paints)
Drive Vehicles (Shuttles) • Comprehensive Water Mgmt
– Alternative Vehicle Rate Program (Small – Indoor Water Efficiency
Vehic, Alt Fuel, etc) – Rain Water Harvesting
– Tire Inflation Stations – Water Efficient Landscaping
• Lighting – Greywater Reuse
– Energy Efficient Lighting Systems
• Emerging Innovative Technologies
– Lighting Controls

27. GPC - Sustainable Technologies
Committee Mission Statement
• Identify sustainable parking technologies and products through an
objective, brand-neutral process. Focus particularly on those
technologies relevant to achieving Green Garage Certification.
• Identify existing industry-relevant standards to which quality
technologies must conform. Where such standards don’t
exist, develop alternative approaches to identifying quality
technologies.
• Produce written summaries of standards and existing technologies.
• Develop and maintain a public online clearinghouse / database of
sustainable parking products and technologies
• Develop a practical and effective process to document and share
industry experience with the technologies and products identified
by the Sustainable Technology committee.
– Our work will be ongoing and evolutionary as technologies evolve and
develop.