Sustainability For You - Part 01
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This presentation is aimed at explaining the concept of 'Sustainability' through a short story. The narrative for each slide is there in the notes. Hope this helps!
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Sustainability For You - Part 01
- 2. This content is aimed at increasing awareness about the term ‘Sustainability’ through a short story. The audience for this content are people from all walks of life – students, employees, colleagues and anyone. This content can be used by instructors, sustainability professionals and advocates of the idea of sustainability. To use this presentation effectively please use the notes added to each slide. The slide. The notes sections has the ‘Narrative’ to be talked to the audience before before switching over to the next slide. Font requirement for optimum visibility - AR CENA & Maiandra GD
- 4. Story of Acies Area– 21sq.km. Population–9000 12nativetribes
- 5. Story of Acies Area– 21sq.km. Population–9000 12nativetribes
- 6. Story of Acies Area– 21sq.km. Population–9000 12nativetribes 200 years ago
- 7. Story of Acies Area – 21 sq. km. Population –9000 12 native tribes 200yearsago
- 8. Story of Acies Area – 21 sq. km. Population –9000 12 native tribes
- 10. Story of Acies
- 11. Story of Acies
- 12. Story of Acies
- 13. Story of Acies
- 14. Story of Acies Free / Govt.Sponsored/ Subsidized
- 15. Story of Acies Free / Govt.Sponsored/ Subsidized
- 16. Story of Acies Prosperity ↑ Free / Govt.Sponsored/ Subsidized
- 17. Story of Acies For150 years…Prosperity ↑ Free / Govt.Sponsored/ Subsidized
- 18. Story of Acies After 150years
- 19. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑
- 20. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs →
- 21. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑
- 22. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑ Crimerate ↑
- 23. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑ Crimerate ↑ GDP / Prosperity ↓
- 24. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑ Crimerate ↑ GDP ↓
- 25. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑ Crimerate ↑ GDP ↓
- 26. Story of Acies After 150years Exploration Cost ↑ MNCs → Unemployment ↑ Crimerate ↑ GDP ↓
- 27. One of thesmallest island nations Area – 21 sq. km. Population –9000 Independence – Jan 1968 Story of AciesStory of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation) Image Source: Wikipedia
- 28. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 29. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 30. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 31. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 32. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 33. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 34. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 35. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 36. Consumption Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 37. Consumption Production Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 38. Consumption TradeBalance Production Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 39. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 40. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation) Human CapitalManagement
- 41. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production FinancialCapitalManagement Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation) Human CapitalManagement
- 42. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production Human CapitalManagement NaturalCapitalManagement FinancialCapitalManagement Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 43. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production NaturalCapitalManagement FinancialCapitalManagement Development Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation) Human CapitalManagement
- 44. Consumption TradeBalance LifeStyle Production NaturalCapitalManagement FinancialCapitalManagement DevelopmentDevelopment Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation) Human CapitalManagement
- 45. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 46. Story of ‘TIL’ (TinyIslandNation)
- 47. Economic Growth Social Responsibility Socio -Economic Environmental Responsibility Eco-Efficiency Sustainability Increase Shareholder Value CSR Activities, Community Investments Job Creating, Training & Skill Development Responsible Procurement Socio- Enviro Paper Usage Reduction Resource Optimization, Green Products & Services The concept of ‘Sustainable Development’ is also referred to as ‘Triple Bottom Line’ or ‘People-Planet-Profit’ approach. SustainableDevelopment Sustainable development is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” - Our Common Future, Brundtland Commission Report, 1987
- 49. The author has tried to take utmost care to any avoid copyright infringes. Even so, if there are any objections, the author is willing to make changes to the content. Kindly inform the author regarding the objections. A lenient view is expected as the content is strictly for educational / awareness purpose. Author Vineet Shastry (vineet.shastry@gmail.com)
Editor's Notes
- <Narrative> I am going to talk to you about ‘Sustainability’. Trying to make sense of it in a non theoretical way, through a short story. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> The story is about a small island nation, lets call it ‘Acies’. Its 21 square kilometre in size, with a population of 9000 consisting of 12 native tribes. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> ‘Acies had fresh water, fresh food and a clean environment and is untouched from the external world. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> The island gets explored 200 years ago. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> And a very rich amount of phosphate is found on the island. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> As all natural resources are treated, ‘Acies’ signed a perfect contract for trading phosphate. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> They started exporting phosphate and started importing a lot of money. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> With this the growth story of ‘Acies’ started. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> With the inflow of cash, every house hold at Acies started reaping the benefits of growth. Every house could even afford two cars. The island even got a paved road built around it. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Everyone could afford all the modern amenities available around the world. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Acies and its residents we importing all the things they needed, to a stage where their food was also imported. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> All the requirements of the residents – education, housing, electricity, communication – were free or highly subsidised. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> This went on to the stage where their healthcare was also imported. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> This is what we all know is called ‘Prosperity’ or ‘Development’ or ‘GDP Growth’ <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> All of this continued very well for 150 years. Lets see what happens after that. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> After 150 years, Phosphate production starts declining – being a natural resource, limited in nature – it started exhausting. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> The immediate effect was – exploration cost going up - they had to dig deeper and wider. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Seeing this, MNCs / Mining Companies started exiting the island. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Unemployment rate started going up. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Crime rate also started increasing. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> And the GDP or Prosperity of the island nation started declining. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> The credit worthiness of the tiny island nation was in question and they could not import anymore. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> The stage was such that even the President’s house was put on sale to find more phosphate. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> And every one was confused as to what went wrong. We would all assume that this is a theoretical story and humans are way too smart - for anything like this to happen to them. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> But this is a real life case of one of the smallest island nations on the face of the earth, situated off the coast of Australia which achieved independence in 1968. I would refrain from spelling its name in goodwill, lets call it TIL (Tiny Little Island). <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> So, how did the TIL reach - from here. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> To here. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> From a perfect contract <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Which provided them with good life <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Where they could afford anything they wanted. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> To a place where even the President did not have a place to live. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Something somewhere had gone tribally wrong for TIL. There was one thing, one factor which consistently went wrong with TIL and its residents in all their aspects, that one factor was - <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> ‘Sustainable’ – Whatever TIL and its residents were doing was not sustainable. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Their - Consumption <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Production <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Trade Balance <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Life Style <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Human Capital Management <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Financial Capital Management <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Natural Capital Management <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Overall their ‘Development’ was not sustainable. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> These two terms linked together – ‘Sustainable Development’ – have been a topic for research for more than 2 decades now. Lets discuss this briefly at the end. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Now that we have discussed the term ‘Sustainable’, lets introduce the term ‘Sustainability’. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> ‘Sustainability’ is the property of being sustainable with is genesis in the word ‘Sustain’. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> Sustainable Development was first coined in 1987 by Brundtland commission in their report. Which says – Sustainable development is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Which means that if we are consuming 100 gallons of Oil per capita, our future generation should be able to consume at the same rate. If we are growing at a 6% GDP annually, the future generation should also be able to grow at the same rate. It implies that we are just custodians of the earth and not the owners. Exhausting resources, not investing in the right practices and mismanagement of assets will lead us to leaving a planet which is exploited and sub-standard for the future generations. So, Sustainable Development is an approach where we balance all the 3 responsibilities – economic, environmental and social – for a better future. <Switch Slide>
- <Narrative> With this I thank you for your time and undivided attention. <Switch Slide>