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Sustainability

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What is Sustainability?

1987: “Our Common Future” (Brundtland report) tells us for the first time about “sustainable development”

2012: Heart Summit: a green sustainable economy

Aspects of environmental sustainability: The use of natural resources The emission of waste products into the

environment Limitating the natural resources of the planet Habits, behaviour and cultural aspects

Development that satisfies our present needs without putting at risk the capacity of future generations to satisfy their own needs

Development that satisfies our present needs without putting at risk the capacity of future generations to satisfy their own needs

What is Sustainability?

Inter-generational Sustainability Use responsable of resources Preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity Keeping of natural balances Role of science and technology.

Intra-generational Sustainability Access to resourses guaranteed to all people. Equitable distribution of wealth Responsability of treating of wastes and slags. Non-violent management in conflicts.

Sustainability: a definition

There isn't a definition of Sustainability accepted all over the world.

Sustainability can be read as a body of knowledge, behaviours and actions which- taken individually or collectively- allow humanity to live indefinitely in harmony with natural systems that host.

One World, many paths to Sustainability

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

AgricultureFishingIndustrySettlementsTrade

AgricultureFishingIndustrySettlementsTrade

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

One World, many paths to Sustainability

Fossil fuelsNuclear energyRenewable sourcesSavings on energy

Fossil fuelsNuclear energyRenewable sourcesSavings on energy

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

One World, many paths to Sustainability

EquityHuman Rights

Nonviolence

EquityHuman Rights

Nonviolence

ConsumptionsWastes

Green-thinkingPolicies

ConsumptionsWastes

Green-thinkingPolicies

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

One World, many paths to Sustainability

WaterSoil

ForestsBiodiversity

Climate

WaterSoil

ForestsBiodiversity

Climate

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

One World, many paths to Sustainability

WHAT is sustainable?Ecological footprintBiocapacity

WHAT is sustainable?Ecological footprintBiocapacity

Economy

Indicators ofSustainability

Naturalresources

Behaviours,Culture,

Lifestyles

Energyproduction

Sustainability

One World, many paths to Sustainability

An activity about natural resources!!!

How much water???

If all the water on the planet was contained in this acquarium which holds 100 litres…

…what would the volume of natural water corrispond to?…how much natural water is available?…and how much drinking water?

How much water???

If all the water on the planet was contained in this acquarium which holds 100 litres…

Natural water: 3 litresAvailable natural water: 0.5 litresDrinking water: 0,003 litres

Sustainable development - Nachhaltigkeit

How to learn and how to teach it?

There aren't enough new technologies or political measures to change the minds of the people.

It needs a decade of education towards sustainable development.

Wie lernt und wie lehrt man das?

Es ist nicht genug neue Technologien oder politische Massnahmen zu treffen um die Mentalität der Leute zu ändern.

Man braucht ein Jahrzehnt um die Leute der nachhaltigen Entwicklung zu bilden.

Sustainable development- Nachhaltigkeit

Spreading of sustainable culture, for example , in Italy and other countries, from '70s.

Verbreitung von dem Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit, zum Beispiel in Deutschland schon in den '70er Jahren.

At school Architecture

Experiences with nature for children

Education about Nuclear energy

Thinkingof Green economy

In der Schule

Kern der Bildung

In der Architektur

Grnes denken

Erfahrungenschon mit den kleinen Kindern in der Natur

Nuclear energy - Kernkraft

Advantages

Less CO2- Emission environmentally friendly

Decreased demand for oil the price of oil remains constant

Much energy is produced

Vorteile

Wenig CO2- Emission Umweltfreunlich.

Entlastung des Ol-Nachfrage Olpreis bleibt konstant

Hohere Produktion der Energie

Nuclear energy- Kernkraft

Disadvantages Radioactivity is

dangerous There aren't any places in

the world for all the radioactive waste.

The danger of nuclear energy stations being attacked by terrorists.

They cost a lot of money. If any accident happens

then it is a disaster.For example Cernobyl.

Nachteile Radioaktiv und gefärlich. Keine Platz fur die Abfall

auf den ganzen Welt. Kein Schutz gegen

Terrorismus Neuen Bauen sehr teuer. Wenn Unfall = Katastrofe

Tschernobyl

Ecological Footprint

An indicator of Sustainability

Ecological FootprintAn indicator of Sustainability

The Ecological Footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.

It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste.

Source: Wikipedia

Biocapacity refers to the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going supply of renewable resources and to absorb its spillover wastes.

Unsustainability occurs if the area’s ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity.

Human activities and Biocapacity

Global ecological footprint

Source: WWF, Living Planet Report 2008 – data related to year 2005

What about us?

Our journey emissions

Calculation of emissions due to our international journey from Italy to FinlandWe calculate emissions of:

Carbon dioxide (CO2)Nitrogen oxides (NOx)Particulate

Data are calculated for each traveler

Calculation tool:www.travelfootprint.org

Our journey

Milan – Oulu km: 2565.5

Milan – Riga km: 1637.7

Riga - Turku

km: 411.7Turku – Oulu

km: 516.1

Emissions: Milan - Riga

CO2: 387.7 kg

NOx + PM: 527.5 g

Emissions: Riga - Turku

CO2: 97.5 kg

NOx + PM: 132.6 g

Emissions: Turku - Oulu

CO2: 122.2 kg

NOx + PM: 166.2 g

Our journey emissions (per-capita)

1652.61214.8Total

826.3607.4MilanOulu

826.3607.4OuluMilan

NOx+PM (g) CO2 (Kg)

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulates

Our journey emissions

Italians (7 persons) are responsible for these total emissions:

CO2: 8.5 tons

NOx + PM: 11.5 kg

Grosses

ResultateErsparnisse

Veränderungen

Fangen klein an!

Ein einzelner Fels ist wie ein Tropfen auf heiβem Stein.Bitte! Mache etwas mit!

Was soll ich erwarten, wenn ich etwas schlechtes mach?Nicht Gutes! Mutter Natur.

Um einer Tisch zu bauen braucht man einen Baum.Um ein Buch zu drucken braucht man einen Baum?NEIN nicht mal ein BlettBenutze Altpapier!...

Do I consume wisely???

Einen Baumfällen als ein Biβchen Leben töten

Mache mit einem ”Baum” nichts,was er nicht auch mit dir machen soll.

Besser haute wieder verwenden als morgen nichts haben!

Do I consume wisely???

Save water... shower with a friend!

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight!

Do I consume wisely???

Modern technology owes ecology an apology!

Il n’y a pas de petits gestessi nous sommes 60 millions à les faire

Do I consume wisely???

Si tout le monde s’y meton aura moins de déchets

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