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October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Engineering and Sustainability
Engineering and Sustainability
Office of Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Why is Sustainability Important?
Why is Sustainability Important?
Or
Why Isn’t Engineering Sufficient?
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Mother Earth -- Our Home
It is has water, oxygen and a hospitable climate
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Human activities have changed the composition of the atmosphere since the pre- industrial era
Human activities have changed the composition of the atmosphere since the pre- industrial era
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Global mean surface temperature is projected to increase during the 21st century
Global mean surface temperature is projected to increase during the 21st century
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Ecological FootprintEcological Footprint
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Hard NumbersHard Numbers
• 400 wealthiest Americans with only 4% of their wealth could spend $50 billion to bring ALL people potable water.
• Average income of top 400 individuals in U.S. is $174 million or more than 1,600 times the income of a minimum wage worker
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Earth Day to 21st CenturyEarth Day to 21st Century
1970 3.7 Billion people
• 203 million U.S.
• 25 million U.S. live in poverty
• 1,100 sq. ft. ave. house
2007 6.6 billion people
• 303 million U.S.
• 36 million U.S. live in poverty
• 2,350 sq. ft ave. house
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Do we understand how wasteful we are?
10,000 kg
Raw Resourc
e
Manufacture
1000 kgFinished Product
(consumed)
6 months 100 kglong-termdurables
leftin home
EXTRACT CONVERT USE DISCARD
From Biffa, 2000
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Economics of Happiness
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
1992 Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.. Union of Concerned Scientists, Statement of 1,700 scientists, November, 1992
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
100 Nobel Laureates Statement, Dec. 7, 2001
100 Nobel Laureates Statement, Dec. 7, 2001
• The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of the world's dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming, not of their making but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their fragile ecologies most. Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust.
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
What IS Sustainability?What IS Sustainability?
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Definitions of SustainabilityDefinitions of Sustainability
Our Common Future
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."Page 8, World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future. (Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1987). (Frequently referred to as the Brundtland report after Gro Harlem Brundtland, Chairman of the Commission)
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Definition of SustainabilityDefinition of
Sustainability
We envision a sustainable community as one that provides for the social and economic needs of all its members for many generations to come, without compromising the health of our Biosphere.
MSU Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
A view of community as three separate, unrelated parts: an economic part, a social part and an environmental part.
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
A view of community as three concentric circles: the economy exists within society, and both the economy and society are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the environment.
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Prism of SustainabilityPrism of Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Design Question to Answer
Design Question to Answer
How Do We Love All the Children?
William McDonough
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Earth CharterEarth Charter
• Respect and Care for the Community of Life• Ecological Integrity• Social and Economic Justice• Democracy, Nonviolence, and Peace
www.earthcharter.org
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Time for a New LabelTime for a New Label
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Criteria for Fair TradeCriteria for Fair Trade
• Guaranteed minimum prices to producers, plus social development premium
• Advance credit or pre-payment• Democratically run producer organizations
or workplaces • Long-term contracts, trading relationships • Environmentally sustainable prod’n practices • Safe, non-exploitative working conditions
(Sources: Equal Exchange; Fair Trade Federation; FLO; Global Exchange; TransFair USA)
So What Does It Have to Do With Me?
So What Does It Have to Do With Me?
We’re All In This Together
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Spheres of InfluenceSpheres of Influence
• Self• Family• Workplace• Faith Community• Neighborhood• Marketplace• Governance
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
What to do on Campus?What to do on Campus?
• Turn things off• Use CFL’s in place
of incandescents• Use duplex
printing• Buy recycled
content• Get a department
bike
• Shop as Surplus, send unwanted items there
• Buy Energy Star equipment
• Set equipment to go to sleep
• Smile more• Share your gifts
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Things we can do anywhere
Things we can do anywhere
• Share your gifts• Drive less or drive
a more fuel efficient vehicle
• Eat more local/seasonal food
• Turn things off• Invest in your
values
• Raise thermostat in summer, and drop in winter
• Buy Energy Star appliances
• Use CFL’s• Smile more• Listen better
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Food ChoicesFood Choices
• Buy locally raised food
• Buy Fair Trade Coffee, tea, chocolate
• Eat less meat• Support locally
owned businesses
• Eat seasonally• Reduce
disposables• Have more
potlucks• Compost your
waste• Grow your own• Share the bounty
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
Green PurchasingGreen Purchasing
•Buy 100% post-consumer recycled copy paper at University Stores. It saves, energy, water, and reduces pollution.
•Ask for Fair-Trade coffee, it ensures a fair price to the farmer andIs usually grown organically in shady conditions which are environmentally more sustainable.
•When all else is equal support local merchants, not global giants.
October 9, 2008 Campus Sustainability
The Look and Sound of Sustainability
The Look and Sound of Sustainability
Video clipwww.ecofoot.msu.edu