PowerPoint PresentationSustainability Summit, City University of Hong Kong
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability / School of Sustainability
Prevention
Anthropocene Era
“The period in the Earth’s history when human activity is having a significant impact on global ecological and social systems.”
“Meeting the needs of present generations, while not compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs.” Brundtland Commission
Sustainability has many meanings
number for the longest time.” Gifford Pinchot
“Treating the Earth as though we intend to stay.” Sir Crispin Tickell
Next Generation
greater than the power in the Earth to produce
subsistence for man.”
Thomas Malthus, 1798
According to Malthus…
Social transformation
International development
Economic stability
Challenges to our future
Why ASU established the
Global Institute of Sustainability
“…sustainability, like democracy, is not a problem to be solved but rather a challenge that requires constant vigilance.”
Vision statement:
Sustainability @ ASU
all, while protecting and enhancing the earth’s
life support systems.
ASU units and work with external partners to
educate, discover solutions and implement
practices that will help drive the transition to a
sustainable world.
• Embed concepts of sustainability throughout the curriculum
• Focus research on major challenges of sustainability (“use-inspired research”)
• Operate sustainably
Global Institute of Sustainability
ASU’s means of stipulating, stimulating and supporting its commitment to sustainability
Principles
• Practice what we preach
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G I O S I S H O R I Z O N TA L GIOS CONNECTS ASU ASSETS IN SUSTAINABILITY
Develop solutions
sustainability?
• discover solutions to global sustainability problems
• operate sustainably and share best practices
Educating future leaders: ASU School of Sustainability (established 2006)
• 28 appointed faculty, 82 graduate faculty
– BA in Sustainability
– PhD
• concentrations in “traditional” fields; custom trainings
Students chose a challenge area
Energy and Technology
Major employment sector: private Industry (71%)
Total BA/BS alumni: 499
* 74% of employed undergrad alums have jobs with sustainability in the title or work for a sustainability-focused organization.
SOS employment data-grad students
Main employment sector: academia (70%)
*87% of employed masters alums have jobs with sustainability in the title or work for a sustainability-focused organization.
**20% enrolled in additional graduate education
Focus research on solutions,
• State-of-the-art facilities
• Technical capabilities
• Events assistance
• Scheduling help
• Seed funding
• Proposal expertise
• Professional communications
Purpose: Increase competitiveness of multi- disciplinary proposals in sustainability science. Enable faculty PI’s to focus on ideas, not technicalities.
Technical services: Writing, editing, budgeting, forms submission, graphics
Intellectual services: Convening, innovation, faculty team identification
Current Research
Completely climate neutral by 2035 (including transportation emissions)
Key Activities
• Non-auto transportation incentive programs
Key Activities
Sustainability must be achieved through the actions of campus users.
Key Activities
• Farmers Market
• Campus Harvest
Principled practice
Key Activities
• LEED silver+ building standard
What we’ve learned
Student Enrollment in Sustainability Sustainability Research Funding
Education and research
has been affected
Students are interested
Certificates & Concentrations Sustainability Related Bachelors Sustainability Related Masters Sustainability Minors
SOS Graduate
SOS Undergraduate
Rooting for success
‘wait and see’
promotion and tenure
student’s education
• Sustainability is mission-consistent
Key success factors
• Service provision (proposal support, special facilities, great coffee)
• Cost-savings from sustainable operations
Sustainability Science
“a field defined by the problems it addresses rather than by the disciplines it employs,
it advances both knowledge and action.”
Adapted from Clark, 2007
• secure affordable energy for a growing world population?
• make the best use of natural resources?
• ensure access to clean water?
• adapt to climate change?
• create sustainable global development?
• balance prosperity with social and environmental justice?
“Learn how to manage and guide
the transition.”
costs to the institution?
traditional at the same time?
Do external constituencies think sustainability
is just a “passing fad”?
Who will be the “champion”?
sustainability.asu.edu
40 LEED BUILDINGS
No cost to ASU for solar
(Power Purchase Agreements)
• 14 tons composted per day
• 22% food purchased in 150 miles
• Print used 100% recycled papers
• Green Purchasing Policy
• Meet Energy Star, or in upper 25%
• Suppliers take back packaging
Green purchasing
• Compost instead of fertilizer
Down 15.3% despite adding 29% more space and 33% more students
Down 24.3% despite adding 29% more space and 33% more students
Up only 3.7% despite adding 29% more space and 33% more students
Achieving Climate Neutrality
• Natural lighting
• Smart windows
• HVAC innovations
• LED lighting
Adaptation: becoming able to live in a
set of circumstances
after something bad happens” Merriam-Webster Online 2014
“Living together well.”
Provost
for Sustainability
Research Projects
and Supproit
Board of Directors for Sustainability@ASU
DIRECTORS TIM ALBINSON Executive Chairman, Aravo Solutions, Inc. BRAD CASPER Former President, The Dial Corporation WILLIAM C. CLARK Harvey Brooks Professor, Harvard University SUE CLARK-JOHNSON President (Retired), Gannett Newspaper CRAIG COGUT Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. JOHN DE FRIES President and CEO, Native Sun Business Group CURTIS FRASIER General Counsel (Retired), Shell Oil Company
ROBERT KATES Sustainability Solutions Advisory Board Chair, University of Maine ROBERT LITTERMAN Executive Editor, Financial Analysts Journal; Former Chairman, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Goldman Sachs Asset Management JULIA MARTON-LEFÈVRE Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature PAMELA MATSON Chester Naramore Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University WILLIAM MCDONOUGH Founding Partner, William McDonough + Partners ANTHONY MICHAELS Managing Director, Proteus Environmental Technologies, LLC; Chief Scientist, Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P.
WILLIAM POST Chairman of the Board and CEO (Retired), Pinnacle West Capital Corporation R. F. SHANGRAW, JR. CEO and President, ASU Foundation JACKIE PRINCE ROBERTS Chief Sustainability Officer, The Carlyle Group LISA STEVENS President, Pacific Midwest Region Wells Fargo & Company BRIAN SWETTE President, Sweet Earth Natural Foods SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Former Director, Policy Foresight Progamme, University of Oxford Advisory Council Member, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford SANDER VAN DER LEEUW Co-Chair, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative Arizona State University
CO-CHAIRS JULIE WRIGLEY President and CEO, Wrigley Investments, LLC
S. ROBSON “ROB” WALTON Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart
MICHAEL M. CROW President, Arizona State University
Capability
• Community Outreach Coordinator