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Sustainable Building and How it Impacts Coastal Decision Makers

Sustainable Building and How it Impacts Coastal Decision Makers. Wally Peters University of South Carolina Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions. Or…Local Is Part of Global. First Principles for Earth. Systems Analysis. Basic science

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Sustainable Building and How it Impacts Coastal Decision Makers

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  1. Sustainable BuildingandHow it Impacts Coastal Decision Makers Wally Peters University of South Carolina Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions

  2. Or…Local Is Part of Global

  3. First Principles for Earth

  4. Systems Analysis • Basic science • Matter and energy cannot appear or disappear • Matter and energy tend to spread spontaneously • Material quality is concentration and structure of matter • Material quality on earth is net produced only by sun-driven processes Adapted from “The Natural Step”

  5. Playtime Sun--Orange Producers--Green Consumers--Pink Decomposers--Purple Abiotic Chemicals--Gray/Green Water—Blue

  6. Complexity and Ethics

  7. Continuous Improvement– The Shewhart/ Deming Cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)

  8. LEOPOLD’S LAND ETHIC A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY, STABILITY, AND BEAUTY OF THE BIOTIC COMMUNITY. IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS OTHERWISE.

  9. CALLICOTT’S MODIFIED LAND ETHIC A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO DISTURB THE BIOTIC COMMUNITY ONLY AT NORMAL SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES. IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS OTHERWISE.

  10. Technology as a means to achieve economic, social and environmental goals Dimensions of Sustainable Development focus on maximizing income while maintaining the stock of capital assets (human, natural and manufacturing capital) Economic issues of intra-generational equity issues of valuation in a global context Social Environmental issues of inter-generational equity focus on stability of social and cultural systems focus on stability of biological and physical systems Developed from the World Bank Presented by Dr. Jorge Vanegas at Building Energy 1997

  11. “The world that we have created with our way of thinking has problems that cannot be solved thinking the way we do now.” Albert Einstein

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