Research by Clay Showalter and Arij BeebeSweet Energy Systems and Climate Change The Evergreen State College Olympia WA How sustainable is The Evergreen State College H1 Evergreen is sustainable ID: 539230
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2011 - 2012Research by Clay Showalter and Arij Beebe-SweetEnergy Systems and Climate Change,The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
How sustainable is The Evergreen State College?Slide2
H1: Evergreen is sustainable. H2: Evergreen is sustainable to some degree, but needs to improve certain elements to become truly sustainable.H3: Evergreen is not sustainable.Null: There is no way to measure Evergreen’s sustainability.
HypothesisSlide3
What is Sustainability?The capacity to
endure.PeoplePlanet
Profit
geo Logic Systems
http://geologicsystems.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/a-business-case-for-sustainability-attention-alberta-oil-sands-operations
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Why is sustainability important?Slide5
All living things are reliant on a healthy ecosystem.All creatures impose a load on their environment’s ability to supply what they need and absorb what they excrete.Carrying capacity is the maximum persistently feasible load for a given creature and way of life.Carrying CapacitySlide6
Technological advances can increase the Earth’s human carrying capacity.Phantom carrying capacity.Each enlargement of human carrying capacity means diverting some of Earth’s life supporting capacity away from other species.
Humans & Carrying CapacitySlide7
There are several established ways for measuring sustainabilityLife Cycle AnalysisEnvironmental Sustainability IndexEcological Footprint AnalysisAnthropologists Cultural ApproachAASHE STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, for Colleges and Universities)
Current system used and acknowledged by Evergreen.
How is sustainability measured?Slide8
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)The GRI framework is the most widely used standardized sustainability reporting framework in the world.Developed by NGO’s CERES and Tellus Institute (supported by UNEP) in 1997Has gone through several revisions as an understanding of the metric has evolved current standard G4 is in practice.
Choosing our MetricSlide9
EnvironmentalHuman RightsLabor Practices and Decent WorkSocietyProduct ResponsibilityEconomic
Six Performance IndicatorsSlide10
Materials EnergyWaterBiodiversityEmmissions, Effluents, and WasteProducts and ServicesEnvironmentalSlide11
Investment and Procurement PracticesNon-discriminationFreedom of Association and Collective BargainingSecurity PracticesIndigenous RightsAssessment/Remediation
Human RightsSlide12
EmploymentLabor/Management RelationsOccupational Health and SafetyTraining and EducationDiversity and Equal Opportunity Equal Renumeration for Women and Men
Labor Practices and Decent WorkSlide13
Community engagementOperations impacts on local communitiesCompliance with laws and regulationsSocietySlide14
Lifecycle stages of products with health and safety impactsPractices related to customer satisfaction, such as surveys and evaluationsProduct/Services ResponsibilitiesSlide15
Direct economic value generated and distributedPolicy and practices of spendingHiring procedures for administrationEconomicSlide16
Should Faculty and Student commuting practices be included in our GRI?BoundariesSlide17
GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelineshttp://www.globalreporting.org/NR/rdonlyres/D8B503A9-070C-43DB-AD0F-5C4ACB1EBF39/0/G31RefSheet.pdf
Decision TreeSlide18
Critical evaluation of metric (GRI) and its implementation.Global Reporting InitiativeSystems ThinkingVision of the FutureQuestion society faces: What impacts are we willing to absorb or endure?
Conclusion