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The Sustainability Revolution Changes Everything:
Biodiversity and Regenerative Design
Sustainability Challenges
2 Degrees Safe Global Temp rise
It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the planetIt’s time to divest from fossil fuels
5 times more coal, oil, and gas in proven reserves than is safe to burn. We need to leave 80% of it in the ground.
The fossil fuel industry wakes up every day determined to burn it all.
575 Gigatons of carbon can safely be added to the atmosphere
2795 Gigatons of carbon in proven reserves
“We need a persuasive and visionary yes rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb 2015
“Although the problems are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”
- Bill Mollison developer of Permaculture Design Methodology
“We are charged with designing the future,
not being victims of it”- R Buckminster Fuller
If we get the design right, we get cascading side benefits
If we get the design wrong, we get cascading side effects
Sustainable Living: A New and Better Design for Living
The Renewable Energy Revolution is Here
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Notes
Every week in 2014, Taiwan brought on about twice as much solar power as they did in all of 2008.
1 MW Solar Stadium
GermanyOn Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.On Sunday, May 11, 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from
renewables.
Energiewende, the innovative public policy around renewables has created 400,000 jobs in Germany
Solar Potential Germany vs Taiwan
Germany (Berlin): 883 kwh per kwTotal Solar Installed in Germany: 38,359 mw
Tawian (Taipei): 1,169 kwh per kwTotal Solar installed capacity in Taiwan: 847 mw
(Iowa: 1310 kwh per kw)
Taiwan PV installation goals
2006 1.6 mw2007 2 mw2008 3.5 mw2013 175 mw2014 607 mw $690 million 2015 847 mw $790 million2030 6 gw (6,000 mw)
2014 Wind 814 mw onshore2015 15 mw offshore 2030 1200 mw onshore 3000 mw offshore
Costa Rica 100% Powered by Renewable Energy for the 1st 75 days of 2015
Pop: 4.8 Million Annual % Renewables: 88%
Renewables allowed a 12% reduction in energy prices
“We are declaring peace with nature,” Costa Rican ambassador Mario Fernández Silva
Portugal at 58% Renewable Energy for 2013(First half of 2013 was 75%)
Pop 10.4 million
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs
Kauai
On August 31, 2014, during daytime hours, 57% of power on Kauai was from renewable sources. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Hawaii)
Once Anahola goes on-line, solar will approach 80% of the energy demand on some days. At some times solar output may exceed demand. Kauai is a laboratory for the world on 100% renewable energy.
Mark Jacobson’s 100% Renewable Energy Plan
Mark Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/ Energy Program at Stanford University, has developed 100% renewable energy plans for all 50 US states. He is working on a plan for Taiwan, it will be done by the end of 2015.
From:http://thesolutionsproject.org/
PV 25 % Solar Thermal 3%
Wind 65%
Hydro 1%
Biomass 6%
Living Fully Rooted in the Abundant Flows of Natural Systems
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
Schwartz- Guich Sustainable Living Center Building that Teaches
Schwartz – Guich Sustainable Living Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAKfFldhkY
Vastu and Sustainability
Maharishi Sthapatya Ved:Buildings that create positive effects
for the occupant and the environment
SitingOrientationPlacement ProportionDaylightingMaterials Sustainability
HPA Science Building, Hawaii
“Sky courts” designed by Kuala Lumpur architect Ken Yeang are recesses in the walls of buildings that use breezes and shade to passively cool buildings in hotter climates.
Regenerative Design and Biodiversity
Ecological footprinting and the problem with minimizing our footprint.
Can the human presence be regenerative, give back more than it takes, like a tree?
Regenerative Design and Biodiversity
What if all the byproducts of human activity were wetlands, wildlands, and beauty?
Big Wet footprints
More connected communities
Regeneration and renewal
Regenerative design and biodiversity
Requires a new way of being and doing in the world, a new world view
Regenerative design has profound implications for biodiversity – creates habitat rather than destroys it
Biomimicry Living Machines
Living Machine at Omega Institute New York
Natural Swimming Pool
Ecocites
http://inhabitat.com/menis-architects-agora-garden-is-a-rock-like-residential-tower-
wrapped-in-vegetation/
Menis Architects Tower Proposal for Taipei
Bosco VerticaleMilan, Italy
Food and Agriculture
Can industrial agriculture feed the world?
It doesn’t feed the world now.
70% of the world is fed by peasant (small scale,
local) agriculture. We could double or triple their productivity with techniques of modern organic agriculture.
Havana, Cuba
400,000 people employed in urban agriculture in Cuba80% of the produce for Havana comes from farms in the city
Growing PowerMilwaukee Wisconsin
Water in the City Rain gardens, Permeable Paving, Living Roofs
Taipei Flora Expo Pavilion
Living Walls, Paris
Restoring hydrologically functional landscapes in cities
Rain gardensPermiable pavement
Infiltrates most rainfall Convey 25-yr.,24hr storm Enhance Water Quality Decrease Runoff By 98%
Shop, lab, and Microenterprise centerMaker space
Student Coop Makes Biodiesel from Waste Oil
Food at MUM
100% OrganicVegetarianLocal
What Our Students are DoingDirector of Ecovillage in FijiDesigning water purification systems for the billions without clean waterWork with the government of Mongolia developing Organic StandardsStarted renewable energy company that employess 11 graduatesSolar engineerFarmerUrban agriculture coordinator, Chicago, NYCStarted another sustainable living program Started farming non profit in Flint Michigan (Flintopia) Graduate School:
Green MBA Masters Graduates in Sustainable Agriculture, Community Development, ArchitecturePhd candidate in international development
Ideal energy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEi7wggkLs
Tracks
• Agriculture – soil food web and advanced forms of organic agriculture like biodynamics
• Energy – renewable energy • Fundamentals – core theory and philosophy of
sustainability • Policy and changemaking • Buildings and the built environment
Dr ThimmiahPhD , Biodynamic AgricultureBoard Member, Demeter USAAuthor of the Manual of Organic Agriculture for
Bhutan, Bhutan Organic Standards
Dr John Ikerd
PhD, EconomicsDeep sustainability , sustainable economicsRecent work: Author of the chapter on Canada,
US and Mexico in the UNFAO book for the Year of the Family Farm
Dr Elaine Ingham
BIODIVERSITY IN THE SOILElaine is a world leader in the understanding and
practical application of the Soil Food Web
Richard Register
Founder, Ecocity BuildersAuthor, Ecocities
Better U Foundation Actor Jim Carrey
Convening National and International Conversations
International Outreach
• Finca Luna Nueva, Costa Rica• Angoon, Alaska• Nepal • Bhutan• South Africa• Uganda• India• Mongolia• Hawaii• Taiwan – Nanhua University • China
Surya Nagar FarmClimate responsive buildings
Fresh Organic Food – Even in Winter
Rainwater Harvesting
Abundance Ecovillage
• Picture of sign
New photo with sunset
• Ecovillage Aerial view
Local Economy:Water
36 in rain = 1,000,000 gallons per acre
Ecovillage Constructed Wetland/Living Machine
BEDZED Project Beddington, England (2006)
SustainabilityMeet the needs of the present without diminishing
opportunities for the future
A world view with a set of supporting infrastructure, technologies, institutions, ways of relating to each
other and to nature
Shallow Vs Deep Sustainability
Shallow Sustainability - Using efficiency and substitution to ameliorate the effects of the existing system with doing much to change the worldview the system is based on. Motivated primarily by economic value.
Deep Sustainability
Efficiency and substitution are in service to radical redesign based on a worldview that uses ecology as a metaphor rather than the machine, holism rather than reductionism, compliments science with many ways of knowing, and is grounded in an experiential and intellectual understanding of the unity that underlies the surface diversity of life.
Deep Sust Cont’d
• This worldview leads to a society that has an ethic of regeneration and renewal of human society and nature. Deep sustainability gives priority to ethical and social values while recognizing the necessity of economic viability.
Deep Ecology/Biodiversity
Organisms have a right to exist whether they provide something of value to humans or not
That they are alive and sentient is enough
It’s all aliveIt’s all intelligent It’s all realtives
Perennial Philosophy: Transcendentalist, Huxley, Houston Smith
World’s Wisdom Traditions
These is a unity that underlies the surface diversity of life
In addition to intellectually exploring this idea, people can directly experience this unity
This experience is common across cultures and time
To reconnect with this unity is the ultimate purpose of life
Names: Being, Source, Pure Consciousness, Taoism: nothingness Buddhism: emptiness
Higher states of consciousness
Perennial Philosphy
• The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the great spirit, and that this center is really everywhere — it is within each of us.” Black Elk
““It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.” Martin Luther King
“Everything is so intimately connected with every other thing in creation that it is not possible to distinguish completely the existence of one from the other. And the influence of one thing on every other thing is so universal that nothing could be considered in isolation. We have already mentioned that the universe reacts to an individual action…Therefore, the great responsibility of right and wrong lies in the individual him[or her]self on the level of his[or her] consciousness.”—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, from Science of Being and Art of Living p. 219-223
The most important characteristic of the Eastern world view - one could almost say the essence of it - is the awareness of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things and events, the experience of all phenomena in the world as manifestations of a basic oneness. All things are seen as interdependent and inseparable parts of this cosmic whole; as different manifestations of the same ultimate reality. (Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, 1975)
Lao Tzu
The Great Tao flows everywhere ..All things depend on it for life,and it does not turn away from them.One may think of it as the mother of all beneath
Heaven.We do not know its name, but we call it Tao ...Deep and still, it seems to have existed forever.
Chang Tsai People are my siblings and I share the life of all
things
Confuscious
Chang Tsai People are my siblings and I share the life of all
things
Master Hsing Yun
All than exists in this universe is built upon emptiness. Only with emptiness is there existence.
Hydrological cycle
Sustainability, Entropy, Energy
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• 1st law – energy is neither created nor destroyed – it is eternally cycled from one form to another
• 2nd law – energy loses useful each time it is transformed – same quantity of energy but it can no longer do the same kinds of work.
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• Examples– Coffee– Car Engine– Leaky tire
• Materials Cycle • Energy flows from source to sink
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• For Sustainability: We need a continuous source of high quality energy to offset the effects of entropy, we need solar energy
Sustainability: Regeneration and Renewal
The human body and spirit are also subject to their own laws of entropy and are in need of renewal and regeneration
Parabola Video
The Economy of Nature
This
Can power this
Sustainable Economics
Four Season Harvest"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”- Thomas Edison (1931 in a letter to Henry Ford)
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” - Teilhard de Chardin
Snyder quote
A New Story
The changes we need to make for sustainability – stronger, more vibrant communities, rich social connections, a sense of purpose and meaning, less industrial work, renewable energy, ecocities, coproducing and making, organic local foods, connection to nature and to our own inner being - are also the changes we need to create a better world, the world of our best dreams and aspirations.
Sustainable Living for Taiwan ?Taiwan has great physical resources – wind, waves, solar energy, geothermal energy, flowing water, fertile land, wealth.
Taiwan has the strength and resolve of it’s people
Taiwan has a history of great accomplishments
What better accomplishment than a Sustainable Taiwan?
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How can we learn from each other through collaboration with Maharishi University of Management?
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