Nature's Role in Sustainability

Urbanism And The Land

Nature’s Role In Sustainability

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

- Albert Einstein

My Connection To Sustainability

To achieve a viable human-earth situation a new jurisprudence, Earth Jurisprudence, must articulate the conditions for the integral functioning of the Earth process.

Father Thomas Berry

The Earth Process

Why Rights Of Nature?

Problems vs. Predicaments

Problems Have Fixes Predicaments Require A Mindset Shift

Nature Deficit DisorderIs The Cause of the Earth

Community’s Predicament

Rights Come From Existence

Thomas Berry, “The Great Work”

“The most absurd thing in modern times is the idea that only humans

have rights.”

The Animals Have Rights

The Birds Have Rights

The Pollinators Have Rights

The Trees Have Rights

The River Has Rights

Beyond Ethics and Morality

Nature Will Restore Equilibrium With Us Or Without Us

Rights Of Nature Are Here Now

Ecuador’s ConstitutionNew Zealand Grants Rights To A River

Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature24+ U. S. Cities’ Rights of Nature OrdinancesU. N. Declaration on Rights of Mother Earth

Santa Monica Rights of Nature Ordinance

Pittsburgh Rights of Nature Ordinance

Cities Are Starting To Make The Connection

Sustainable Rights To Nature

Nature Is Our Habitat

Violate The Rights Of Nature

Some Uses Of Nature

Fracking Threatens Land Use Controls

Biophilia

Biophilia is the “connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.”

Harvard Biologist E. O. Wilson

What Is Biophilia?

What Are Biophilic Cities?

"Biophilic Cities contain abundant nature; they care about, seek to protect, restore and

grow this nature, and they strive to foster deep connections and daily contact with

the natural world.” www.biophiliccities.org

Green Everything

Emerging Biophilic Cities

What Would Nature Do?

Biomimicry

Green Infrastructure Is Biomimicry

The Basics: Rain Gardens

From Mushroom Communities

To Portland’s Eco-Districts

Cities Focused On Biodiversity

Chicago WildernessPortland Intertwine Alliance

Bay Area Biomimicry NetworkVancouver Greenest City 2020

U.N. Warns Of World Without Water

Quote from UN Secretary General on Urban Water Shortages

Preserving Biodiversity Is Key

"Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides are central to achieving the

vision of a water secure world."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Nature is a system based on cooperation, not competition. Cellular Biologist, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., Author of “Spontaneous Evolution”

Cooperation

“Nature has an inherent order, and we damage our communities and ourselves if we don’t learn to live

within it.” Jordan River Commission

Ecological coherence is an essential condition for healthy ecosystems. European Commission on Green Infrastructure

Ecological Coherence

When We Are In Nature We Experience Coherence

Challenges of Habitat Preservation

Reconnecting Habitat Zones

Public – Private Partnerships

Conservation Easements

Protect Habitat Wherever You Can

Daytime on Boulder’s Open Space

Nighttime on Boulder’s Open Space

Natural Resilience

Healing Nature Deficit Disorder

Biodiversity Is Nature’s Resilience

Serenity In Nature

SuddenlyNatureResets

Who’s Going To Clean Up This Mess?

Nature’s Volunteers Will

New Forests Emerge

Animals Return

Natural Happiness

The Pursuit Of

When Nature Is Happy

People Are Happy

Boulder Rated Happiest Community In The U.S.

Accountability

Synergy

Our Primary Task: Create The Conditions For

"The universe is a communion of subjects,not a collection of objects.”

Thomas Berry

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”Albert Einstein

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

Rumi