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The Sustainability ImperativeExtension’s Call to Action
Jerry HembdUniversity of Wisconsin-Superior/Extension
Viviane Simon-BrownExtension ForestryOregon State University
Overview
• Systems thinking• Empty and full world model• Evolving community views• Seven big economic ideas• Six essential steps for Extension
Sustainability Basics
• Time (and change)• Relationships• Resilience
Systems Thinking
• Systems consist of individual but interrelated parts
• Systems depend on the relationships among the parts as much as the parts themselves
• These relationships make the whole greater than the sum of its parts
• When you dissect the system, you destroy the pattern of relationships
SolarEnergy
EnergySource
FunctionsSink
Functions
Resources
Finite Global Ecosystem
Waste Heat
Energy
Resources
RecycledMatter
Natural Capital (Ecosystem)
Manmade Capital (Economy)
Growing Economic Subsystem
HumanWelfare
Economic services
Ecosystem services
Source: Daly, Herman. Ecological Economics. Island Press, 2004
World Population, 10,000 BC to Present
World population from 1800 to 2100, based on UN 2004 projections and US Census Bureau historical estimates.
World Population Projections
Societal Pressure on Earth Systems
Source: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, 2004
Societal Pressure on Earth Systems
Source: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, 2004
SolarEnergy
GrowingEconomicSubsystem
Energy Energy
SourceFunctions
SinkFunctions
Resources Resources
Finite Global Ecosystem
Waste Heat
RecycledMatter
Natural Capital (Ecosystem)
Manmade Capital (Economy)
HumanWelfare
Economic services
Ecosystem services
Source: Daly, Herman. Ecological Economics. Island Press, 2004
Evolving Views of the Community
Unconnected or silos view Interconnected or linkages view
Interdependent, nested, or systems view
EnvironmentEconomy
Society
EnvironmentEconomy
Society
Environment
Society
Economy
Conceptual Reform in Economics: Seven Big Ideas
• Adjust economic scale• Shift from growth to development• Make prices tell the ecological truth• Account for nature’s contributions• Apply the precautionary principle• Revitalize commons management• Value women
Source: Gardner, Gary, and Prugh, Thomas, Project Directors. State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Framework for Planning111
1 Focus on 1 problem/1 solution: climate change & sustainable living education
2 Use existing in-situ distribution system3 Address the total lifestyle footprint4 Walk the talk 5 Help communities rethink municipal
systems6 Return to essential land-grant
institutional values
Conclusion
Preamble to the Earth Charter, June 2000 We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future.
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…Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.