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Victoria Avi Manager, Center for Sustainable Business Practices Monte Ahuja College of Business

So What Kind of Future Do we Want? What do we want to sustain? For whom? For how long?

“ We can ’ t conserve our way to a more sustainable future, we have to redesign it. ” Holly Harlan

My Learning Continuum • Garden Rules • Biology class • Design thinking, AIGA • Policy, urban design • E4S, Biomimicry, Zero Waste • Teaching at CSU, Business College

Why Are You Here?

Definition of S. • Sus•tain•a•bil•i•ti , noun: The use of the term sustainability was popularized by the World Commission on Environment and Development (The Brundtland Commission), in its report “ Our Common Future, ” which defined the term, as “ meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs ” (Brundtland, 1987). • The definition by Gus Speth provides an economic perspective: “ living off nature ’ s income rather than consuming its capital ” (Speth, 2004)

NEO Orgs • CSU Corporate Roundtable • Conscious Capitalism NEO Chapter • Green City Blue Lake • Green Energy Ohio • NEO USGBC • Local Food Cleveland Mondays • Edible Cleveland • SC2019 • And many more

CRT Members • American Greetings Management • • BrownFlynn, Ltd Fathom Delivers • • Baldwin Wallace University FirstEnergy • • Case Western Reserve University Forest City Enterprises • • Cequent Group Hundredfold Holdings • • City of Cleveland Invacare • • COSE Kalman and Pabst Photo Group • • Cuyahoga County Planning Lincoln Electric Commission • Lubrizol • Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing • Parker Hannifin Authority • River’s Edge • Dakota Software • Tucker Ellis LLP • Diebold • University Hospitals • Dix & Eaton • Weber Murphy Fox • Eaton • Environmental Resources

Frameworks • Triple Bottom Line • Natural Capitalism • Cradle to Cradle • Biomimicry • Permaculture Principles • Map of frameworks

Triple Bottom Line

Natural Capitalism

The Living Principles

Biomimicry • Biomimicry Design Spiral • Life ’ s Principles • Ask Nature

Cradle to Cradle

A symptom of an un-sustainable system Waste Take - Make - Waste

What does zero waste mean? • Reduce consumption • Reuse materials • Recycle / Compost materials • Redesign products/services • Rethink… mindset shifts to whole systems thinking.

A symptom of an un-sustainable system Climate Change

The Climate Change Challenge https://www.planetseed.com/files/flash/science/features/earth/climate/en/challenge/index. htm?width=835&height=680&popup=true

Opportunities • Waste • Energy • Higher Efficiency • Water • ReDesign • Soil / Food • Change Behavior • Change Consumer • Transportation Habits • Materials • Carrot or Stick • Buildings • Organizations / Culture • Communication • Systems / Services

So What Kind of Future Do we Want? What do we want to sustain? For whom? For how long?

Q&A Victoria Avi Center for Sustainable Business Practices 216 687 9258 v.avi@csuohio.edu