Sustainability thinking Flashcards
Sustainability
The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Avoidance of natural resource depletion to maintain an ecological balance.
- the pursuit of global environmental sustainability’
- ‘A major step towards ecological sustainability is to stop our incessant shopping.
- We need to be able to be flexible and adapt.
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Economic development -> social development -> Sustainable Development
Companies need to rethink how they become profitable. Pre-conditions to be profitable: planet and society comes first, then comes profit.
Reuse, repair, recycle.
Tripple bottom line
Read the canvas page: Sustainability Thinking: Concepts and definitions.
Tripple bottom line
People Planet Profit
Seven elements (principles) of eco-efficiency
- Reduce the material intensity of goods and services
- Reduce the energy intensity of goods and services
- Reduce toxic dispersion
- Enhance material recyclability
- Maximize sustainable use of renewable resources
- Extend product durability
- Increase the service intensity of goods services
Industrial systems/flows
Linear flow
Quasi-cyclic flow
Cyclic flow
Regenerative flow
Major shifts for the journey to natural capitalism
Four system conditions of sustainable society
The top 8 practicle principles for sustainability
Assimilation: Reduce waste and pollution
Regeneration: reduce resource depletion
Restoration: Restore natural capital
Diversification: protect natural capital
Conservation: Improve use efficiency (relative)
Dissipation: Reduce resource use (absolute)
Circulation: Reuse and recycle waste
Perpetuation: Restore natural capital
Strategies and practices
Eco-efficiency applied to a process:
Strategies and practices for the Improvement Hierarchy
