ENV 101

April 9

Policy Making , The Praxis-Laden Environmentalist and

Ecological Economics

 

 

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·         Oral Presentation Today

·         Third Environmental Project Due W 25 April

·         12 Noon Monday 16 April - EAT and Lloyd Beach

·         5-7pm Wed 14 April - Air Fest @ MC and http://stepitup2007.org/ 

·         330pm Monday 16 April - Energy Summit II

·         2pm Wed 18 April - Court Street Cleanup

·       Be Aware of the 3rd Project due in two weeks.

·       WHAT’S NEW AND GROOVY IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES?

                       

SCIENCE >> POLICY >> ETHICS

 

 

 

Þ    Accounting

Þ    Anthropogenic Economics

Þ    Environmental Economics - http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envAccounting/default.htm

Þ    Ecocentric Economics

 

Ecological Economics

 

Technology, Economics and the Planet

 

Classical Economics – Supply, Demand and the Market

 

Consumption – Production

Consumption Exchanges of capital for goods/services

$ to Labor + Land + Capital = products

The price of a product is determined by a balance between production at each price (supply) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand). The graph depicts an increase in demand from D1 to D2, along with a consequent increase in price and quantity sold of the product.The intersection of supply and demand determines equilibrium price and quantity.

 

Image:Supply-and-demand.svg

Political Economy – Moral philosophy and social structures

 

GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)

Conxumption + Investment + Govt + (exports – imports) = GDP

Period Ending

2006

Gross national product

11,059.3

Net U.S. income receipts from rest of the world

55.2

    U.S. income receipts

329.1

    U.S. income payments

273.9

Gross domestic product

11,004.1

Private consumption of fixed capital

1,135.9

Government consumption of fixed capital

218.1

Statistical discrepancy

25.6

National Income

9,679.

 

VS.

Neoclassical economics – modern science to economics

CBR or BCR

 

THEN

Ecological Economics

 

 

http://www.helsinginenergia.fi/en/sahko/consumption_figures.html

 

 

1)      Externalities Count – and are counted

2)      Value (neoclassical) is extended to values and ethics

3)      A “true cost” is associated with each good or service

4)      The Collective is aided more than the individual

5)      More Public Good Exist – all goods are public?

6)      Problems that cannot be solved by technical means…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_Commons   

7)      Garrett Hardin

 

 

Take one item from this bag – with a partner determine

 

The Costs and Benefits of purchasing this item

versus and similar item bought somewhere else…

 

 

http://www.transfairusa.org/

  - The Process

 

 

Ecological Economics and Pollution Credits

 

Cost Benefit Analysis and  Externatlities J Cap & Trade

 

2. 00 for Bag of Coffee ( or $2.00 for non-Venti Latte) =

Coffee = .40 + .40 +.80 + .20 + .20

OR 

An Environmental Accounting of all of the Externalities Associated with it…

Retailers, Processors, Wholesalers, Traders/shippers, Producing Countries, Growers

 

Environmental Accounting of ALL “Environmental Costs”

Coffee = .50 + .50 + .78 + 1.05 + 2.25

 

Chicago Climate Exchange

EmissionsTrading (Cantor Fitzgerald)

HDI V. GNP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org/

 

 

How about larger issues outside of grocery bag

 

How do we grow a community? 

 

http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/contrast/contrinx.asp

 

 

 

 

http://www.nobeltway.com/sprawl.html

 

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/sprawlindex/factsheet_knoxville.html

 

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/

 

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/whatissg.html