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

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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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