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For Our Sustainable Future
David A. Bainbridge
Associate Professor
Alliant International University
2009
Our challenge
• How do we provide quality of life for 9
billion people on planet Earth in 2050?
• How will students find a good job?
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True cost accounting
Sustainable management
Sustainable agriculture
Green architecture and planning
True cost accounting
• Perhaps the most important factor is paying the
true cost--which favors sustainable practices
• Money influences human behavior more than
anything else
• The recent spike in gas prices led to changes in
driving and car buying
• The problem--taking away existing subsidies is
difficult!
Look for my new book Rebuilding the American Economy
Sustainable management
• True cost accounting enables business to do
what business does best - innovate!
• It enables companies to better manage their
value chain
• Better, faster, cheaper, more fun, more
sustainable
• Governments will play a role, but business
must shoulder the major work of transition
Underway
• In an Arthur
D. Little
survey of
95% of
responding
executives
counted
sustainable
development
as important
to their
business
future.
The tools
• Ecological footprints, material intensity per
service (MIPS), and material flow analysis (MFA)
enable us to count true costs
• New measures of progress such as the Genuine
Progress Indicator and National Happiness Index
will replace GDP
• Effective use of people and resources throughout
an organization involves strategic, sustainable
management
The Triple Bottom Line (3BL)
• The triple bottom line will become the
standard for measuring business and
government policy and operations
• Long term planning will replace the next
quarter
• The stakeholder perspective will replace the
shareholder perspective
People, Planet, Prosperity
Sustainable agriculture
• Food will be organic, local, and fair traded
• The global Slow Food movement is playing a
critical role
• Tasteless high response varieties that ship and
keep will disappear and be replaced with
scrumptious varieties bursting with flavor
• Community Supported Agriculture will become
more common
See my book Sustainable Agriculture for California: A Guide to
Information
The Joy of Slow Food
• Food will be local, seasonal, well prepared
and nutritious - even in schools and prisons
• Food shipment distances will drop from
1500 miles to 100 miles
• Net energy efficiency will increase from 10
in to 1 out to 1 in to 2 out--20 times better
• What we eat helps determine health, well being and satisfaction with life
Organic and Local
Environmental restoration
The first
Society for Ecological
Restoration workshop
Red Rock Canyon
State Park
• Restoration is needed almost everywhere you look-from
the deserts to the sea
• Hopefully the new president will get funding flowing
For deserts see my book, A Guide to Desert and Dryland
Restoration
Sustainable buildings
• Buildings will be solar, built of ecologically
responsible materials
• Daylighting will be universal
• Comfort and enjoyment of spaces will
increase, sick leave will decline by 20%
• Costs will decline
• All new buildings will be LEED platinum
plus!
Sustainable Buildings
Congregation Beth David, energy use 91% below title 24, San Luis
Obispo Sustainability Group--Architects
Green Building Materials
See my book: The Straw Bale House
Straw bale
buildings are:
• Superinsulated
• Carbon
sequestration
• Local,
• Quiet, fire
resistant
Better homes and gardens
• New homes will be super-insulated, solar - using
90% less energy to provide better comfort and
security
• All homes will have solar hot water, clotheslines
and rainwater harvesting systems
• Many will have solar electric systems as well
Look for my forthcoming book: Passive Solar Architecture 2011
Integrated Development
• Village Homes showed
what can be done
• In the 1970s this solar
subdivision cut energy use
50%
• Rainwater use, bicycles
and local farm and
commercial space
See my book Village Homes’ Solar
House Designs
Water conservation
• Native plant landscaping and improved irrigation
systems can reduce water use for irrigation 90%
• Gray water reuse for irrigation will be common
• Recycled water and rainwater will be used for
toilet flushing
• Many new homes in water poor areas will have at
least one waterless toilets
• Overall water use can be cut 50-70%
Look for my book Super Efficient Irrigation 2014
More Efficient Irrigation
Clay pot
Porous
capsule
Rainwater
Harvesting
Wick
Green cities
• Cities will be reengineered for walking and
biking See my book Bikeway Planning and
Design
• Obesity will be beaten!
• Transit will be cheap, efficient and privately
run
• The lessons of Curitiba, Brazil will be
applied to all cities
Green jobs
See my book Integral Passive
Solar Water Heaters
• In service and
manufacturing
• New buildings
• Retrofits
• Restoration
• Agriculture
• Community building
Green jobs
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Solar hot water
Solar clotheslines
Solar electricity
Passive solar for
natural heating,
cooling and ventilation
• Food, water, building
and energy efficiency