AASHE Conference Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The Hows and the Whys: Connecting Career Technical Programs to their Social Contexts.

Framing Career Technical

Programs within Social Frameworks

AASHE ConferenceTuesday, October 12, 2010

The Hows and the Whys:

Connecting Career Technical Programs to their Social Contexts

Social Frameworks of Sustainability

Structure- How do we organize our institutions?

Infrastructure- How do we frame our physical world?

Culture- What values shape our communities?

Finding the Connections

◦Withdrawals- resources

◦Additions- waste, by-products

◦Limits to the carrying capacity

◦Externalities- unmeasured costs

The Production and Consumption Treadmill (Allan Schnaiberg, 1980)

The Tragedy of the Commons(Garrett Hardin, 1968)

Shared community spaces

Rational Choice Theory (Olson, 1965)

Individuals strive to maximize benefits and minimize costs.

Free Rider Effect

Assumptions

Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

The Triumph of the Commons

The Triple Bottom Line

Sustainable Education

Cultural Paradigm Shifts

Alternatives?

http://www.earthday.net/footprint/flash.html

Eco-Footprints

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

The Story of Stuff

◦ Curriculum Module: handout

◦ Identify an item to analyze

◦ List all of the resources required and waste created: Production Consumption Disposal

◦ Alternatives? Cradle to Grave or Cradle to Cradle?

Life Cycle Analyses

Sustainability, Biomimicry, and the Forest Economy

Classic Academia: Silos

Architecture Engineering Drafting

Construction Interior Design

Landscape Design Codes andInspections

Physics Horticulture Real Estate

Portland Community College’s Summer Sustainability Institute 2010

Collaboration:

Biology Hydrology Climatology

Art Philosophy History

Sociology Psychology Economics

Geography Politics Anthropology

Imagine theMulti-Disciplinary Opportunities

Village Building Convergence: Creating a Living Lab

www.cityrepair.org

Curricular, Co-Curricular, and Operations

Integrated Design Planning and Mind-Mapping

Curriculum topics: Sustainability Living, Voluntary Simplicity, Health, Food, Children, Work, Deep Ecology, Global Warming, etc.

www.nwei.org

Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Groups

Introduce Self and provide a short answer to the following question:

How does your discipline or job contribute to addressing sustainability? 

Northwest Earth InstituteCircle Question

What factors would you like to see in a collaborative multi-disciplinary Living Lab?

What particular issues would need to be addressed?

Beyond your disciplines, who else should be at the table? Why?

Mind-Mapping Questions :

Thank you for building communities! It benefits us all….