One Planet Principles

DNA for sustainability

10 Principles

Society, economy and environment

DNA for sustainability

One Planet Principles are used to create

• a coherent approach • a common language for

sustainability

Everyone can easily understand the overall goals and ethos

Embedded at all levels to make things easy

• Design• Construction• Sales and marketing• Community Governance• Residents’ association & body

corporate• Property management • Green leases• Long term management

Opportunity for creativity!

Principles are flexible

Real opportunity to develop creative solutions within the framework

Zero Carbon (in buildings)

1. Promote energy efficiency

2. Supply remainder from renewables (by 2020 at the lastest) from generation

•On site• Off site

3. Fossil fuels on for back-up•

Sonoma Mountain Village One Planet Community in California by Codding Enterprises

2 MW photovoltaic array

Solar Laundromat

Zero Waste

Reduce waste

Then re-use, reclaim and recycle

Aim by 202o to send no more than 2% to landfill

Re-use

BedZED steel frame was almost completely made from reclaimed steel

Steel taken off a demolition site, cut to size, sand-blasted, repainted.

Benefits of Re-use

Major environmental savings even over recycled steel (ie melted down and reformed)

Sustainable Water

Promote water efficiencyConsider harvesting rainwater and

recycling subject to contextConsider water in the landscape – to

support biodiversity or mitigate flood or drought

Water treatment at Jinshan

Creates landscape feature and wildlife habitat

Sustainable Transport

1.Reducing the need to travel

2. Providing sustainable alternatives to private fossil-fuel based vehicles

‘5 minute living’

Housing

Work

Groceries

Restaurants

Services

Sports, gardens, gym

Shops, theater, hotel

Reducing the need to travel

Electric vehicles becoming mainstream

Local and Sustainable Materials

•Local

•Reclaimed

•Recycled

•Low embodied energy

•Low toxicity, ‘healthy’ materials

Construction materials and materials used during long term management

Natural clay block at One Brighton

•Low embodied energy – fired at low temperature

•60% less embodied carbon than concrete block

•Breathable - supports better internal air quality, so healthier than people

Local recycled paper

•85% ecological fooptrint compared to using virgin paper

•Set up office paper recycling scheme

Local and Sustainable Food

•Encourage local and low input food production

•Provide food growing opportunities on site to create local food culture

Roof top allotments at One Brighton Canada

Urban agriculture, Cuba

•Opportunities to bring food growing into our towns and cities

Edible landscape designed for Riverside One

Communal food growing area

• Westwyck village, Melbourne, Australia

Create space for farmers’ markets

•Great way to increase quality of life and development value

•Green caretaker can also receive deliveries from local farmers

Green Canteen at One Brighton

•Local, organic, seasonal and vegetarian options

•Workers taken on trip to catch local fish

Land Use and Wildlife

1. Protect existing flora and fauna2. Create new habitats and enhance

biodiversity3. Support projects to increase

biocapacity off-site

Green wall, hotel in Paris

Food and wildlife roof, Haringey, London

Increasing biocapacity off site

• Support a tree growing project off-site

• Purchase wood fuel from forestry which increases biological productivity such as traditional coppicing in the UK

•Support farming which increases rather than depletes soils

Mata de Sesimbra – land restoration

Master plan area 5.000 haPELICANO / ESPART area 700 ha

Mata de Sesimbra – Greenwoods/Pelican0

Culture and Community

1. Create sense of place - local culture & heritage

2. Create a new culture of sustainability through estates management and engagement

3. Design for community connectedness

Create sense of place

Build on local culture & heritage, for example:

-Vernacular architecture which might assist in passive design – eg narrow self shading streets at Masdar City

-Local building materials

- Arts and Cultural Facilities Events – Chinese Opera at Jinshan

Create New Culture of Sustainability •Welcome Packs for new residents to explain One Planet Living•Write principles into property management•Create a One Planet Centre

Governance and Estates management

Design for connectedness

•Car free areas and ‘home zones’ create space for children to play and neighbours to meet•Average person at BedZED knows 20 neighbours by name

1. Use investment for local economic development especially of disadvantaged groups

2. Attract mixed income groups

3. Promote social equity within the development

4. Promote fair trade products

Equity and Local Economy

Support green ‘bioregional’ economy

• What makes people healthy and happy?

• New science of happiness.

Health and Happiness

UK doubled GDP and ecological footprint over past 40 years, but if anything we are less happy

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Life Satisfaction

Other 10 principles come together to increase probability of people being happier for example:

• Walking and cycling increases health

• Green space increases psychological well-being

• Neighbourliness and community connectedness reduces isolation and mental ill-health

Healthier people are happier people

Summarising the Vision

One Planet Communities are

places where it is easy, attractive and affordable

for people to lead happy and healthy lives

within a fair share of the Earth’s resources.