ENV 101

April 18

Sustainable Communities:

It is a people thing, not just an environmental thing.

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· Third Environmental Project Due W 25 April

· http://stepitup2007.org/

· 12 Noon Monday 16 April - EAT and Lloyd Beach

· 330pm Monday 16 April - Energy Summit II

· 2pm Wed 18 April - Court Street Cleanup

· Saturday - World's Fair Park in Knoxville - Earth Day Celebration

· Sunday 22 April 2007 - Earth Day 37

· Sat 28 April - Rain Date makeup for Air Fest @ MC (LRWA, and KBB) 

SCIENCE >> POLICY >> ETHICS

The Difficulties of Environmental Policy Making

The link (or gap) between hard data, strong conclusions, clear implications and sound policy.

§ Wrestling with increasingly solid data.

§ Speculating over the implications of such information.

§ Determining the impact of the environment based on this information.

§ Deciding what policy (policies) will be enacted as a reaction to this news.

§ Debating over what conditions and/or criteria will be used to make such policy choices.

§ How is the environment considered in such choices?

SCIENCE >> POLICY >> ETHICS

Ecological Economics

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

From our food discussion and tasting on Wednesday

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 + 1.15 + 0.75 + 0.85

Fair Coffee = $2.75

http://www.fairtradefederation.org/memcof.html

Þ How about larger issues outside of a grocery bag…

Þ How do we grow a community?

Þ A sustainable community?

Please list the two items you would most like in your home?

Please list the two items you would most desire in your community?

For either list – what one “sustainable” item would you add to your list, and why?

What if you had to take one of your original items off your list to add the sustainable item. Would you?

How do we grow a community?

SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Tangible	Intangible
GNP/ ECONOMICS/”Normal” Society	HDI/Ecol Econ/”Alternative” living
Progress! Population!!! Sprawl?	Brundtland Commission Population HDI v. GDP

Sustainable Development

Address the issue of the community's carrying capacity relative to the four types of community capital

· Natural

· Human

· Social

· Built

http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=199&section=2

Þ http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/

Þhttp://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Indicators/ChecklistItself.html

Þ http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

Sprawl…and its consequences

http://www.plannersweb.com/sprawl/place-tn.html#photo

March/April 2002 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.com/sprawlindex/sprawlreport.html

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.com/sprawlindex/chart.pdf

AND IF MAKING AN “Unsprawled” “Sustainable” home or town or society is possible, why not do it?

Environment – Economy – Equity

Source: http://www.sustainablemeasures.com

Sustainable Cities

Traditional v. Sustainable Indicators Sustainability Indicator Checklist Universal Living Wage Formula

http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/contrast/contr1.asp

www.newcolonist.com

www.earthday.net/footprint/info.asp

HDI V. GNP

Chicago Climate Exchange

EmissionsTrading (Cantor Fitzgerald)

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

and Pollution CreditsJ

Chicago Climate Exchange

EmissionsTrading (Cantor Fitzgerald)

HDI V. GNP

AIR POLLUTION

Garrett Hardin and “Tragedy of the Commons”

· SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and MAKING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT GREENER

· ENERGY ISSUES – Types, Environmental (and other) concerns of current USA use patterns, Options?