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Victoria Avi Manager, Center for Sustainable Business Practices - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Victoria Avi Manager, Center for Sustainable Business Practices - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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What do we want to sustain? For whom? For how long?
So What Kind of Future Do we Want?
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“We can’t conserve our way to a more sustainable future, we have to redesign it.”
Holly Harlan
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My Learning Continuum
- Garden Rules
- Biology class
- Design thinking, AIGA
- Policy, urban design
- E4S, Biomimicry, Zero Waste
- Teaching at CSU, Business College
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Why Are You Here?
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Definition of S.
- Sus•tain•a•bil•i•ti, noun: The use of the term
sustainability was popularized by the World Commission
- n 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)
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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
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CRT Members
- American Greetings
- BrownFlynn, Ltd
- Baldwin Wallace University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cequent Group
- City of Cleveland
- COSE
- Cuyahoga County Planning
Commission
- Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing
Authority
- Dakota Software
- Diebold
- Dix & Eaton
- Eaton
- Environmental Resources
Management
- Fathom Delivers
- FirstEnergy
- Forest City Enterprises
- Hundredfold Holdings
- Invacare
- Kalman and Pabst Photo Group
- Lincoln Electric
- Lubrizol
- Parker Hannifin
- River’s Edge
- Tucker Ellis LLP
- University Hospitals
- Weber Murphy Fox
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Frameworks
- Triple Bottom Line
- Natural Capitalism
- Cradle to Cradle
- Biomimicry
- Permaculture Principles
- Map of frameworks
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Triple Bottom Line
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Natural Capitalism
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The Living Principles
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Biomimicry
- Biomimicry Design Spiral
- Life’s Principles
- Ask Nature
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Cradle to Cradle
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A symptom of an un-sustainable system Waste
Take - Make - Waste
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What does zero waste mean?
- Reduce consumption
- Reuse materials
- Recycle / Compost materials
- Redesign products/services
- Rethink…mindset shifts to whole systems
thinking.
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A symptom of an un-sustainable system Climate Change
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The Climate Change Challenge
https://www.planetseed.com/files/flash/science/features/earth/climate/en/challenge/index. htm?width=835&height=680&popup=true
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Opportunities
- Waste
- Energy
- Water
- Soil / Food
- Transportation
- Materials
- Buildings
- Organizations /
Culture
- Communication
- Systems / Services
- Higher Efficiency
- ReDesign
- Change Behavior
- Change Consumer
Habits
- Carrot or Stick
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What do we want to sustain? For whom? For how long?
So What Kind of Future Do we Want?
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