Top Banner
Urbanism And The Land Nature’s Role In Sustainability
60

Nature's Role in Sustainability

Sep 18, 2014

Download

Technology

This is a PowerPoint for a presentation I gave recently at CNU21, the annual gathering of the Congress for New Urbanism, in Salt Lake City. I was honored to serve on a panel presentation titled "Urbanism and the Land," with Susan Mudd of CNU and Laura Hanson of the Jordan River Commission. This presentation was intended to share with urban planners my expression of Nature's Role in Sustainability, and to outline my framework for what Father Thomas Berry called Earth Jurisprudence. He called on the legal profession to "articulate the conditions for the integral functioning of the Earth process." My Evolutionary Law framework describes the elements of the Earth process, including The Rights of Nature, sustainable Rights to Nature, Biopilia, Biomimicry, Cooperation, and Coherence (Quantum and Ecological). When those elements are implemented in a synergistic way, they lead to greater Biodiversity, Natural Resilience and Natural Happiness (indicators of the Integral Functioning of the Earth Process).
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Urbanism And The Land

Nature’s Role In Sustainability

Page 2: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

- Albert Einstein

Page 3: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Page 4: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The Earth Process

Page 5: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Why Rights Of Nature?

Page 6: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Problems vs. Predicaments

Problems Have Fixes Predicaments Require A Mindset Shift

Page 7: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Nature Deficit DisorderIs The Cause of the Earth

Community’s Predicament

Page 8: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Rights Come From Existence

Thomas Berry, “The Great Work”

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

have rights.”

Page 9: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The Animals Have Rights

Page 10: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The Birds Have Rights

Page 11: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The Pollinators Have Rights

Page 12: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The Trees Have Rights

Page 13: Nature's Role in Sustainability

The River Has Rights

Page 14: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Beyond Ethics and Morality

Nature Will Restore Equilibrium With Us Or Without Us

Page 15: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Page 16: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Santa Monica Rights of Nature Ordinance

Pittsburgh Rights of Nature Ordinance

Cities Are Starting To Make The Connection

Page 17: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Sustainable Rights To Nature

Page 18: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Nature Is Our Habitat

Page 19: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Violate The Rights Of Nature

Some Uses Of Nature

Page 20: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Fracking Threatens Land Use Controls

Page 21: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Biophilia

Page 22: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Harvard Biologist E. O. Wilson

What Is Biophilia?

Page 23: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Page 24: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Green Everything

Page 25: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Emerging Biophilic Cities

Page 26: Nature's Role in Sustainability

What Would Nature Do?

Biomimicry

Page 27: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Green Infrastructure Is Biomimicry

The Basics: Rain Gardens

Page 28: Nature's Role in Sustainability

From Mushroom Communities

Page 29: Nature's Role in Sustainability

To Portland’s Eco-Districts

Page 30: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Cities Focused On Biodiversity

Chicago WildernessPortland Intertwine Alliance

Bay Area Biomimicry NetworkVancouver Greenest City 2020

Page 31: Nature's Role in Sustainability

U.N. Warns Of World Without Water

Quote from UN Secretary General on Urban Water Shortages

Page 32: Nature's Role in Sustainability
Page 33: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Page 34: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Cooperation

Page 35: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

within it.” Jordan River Commission

Page 36: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Ecological Coherence

Page 37: Nature's Role in Sustainability

When We Are In Nature We Experience Coherence

Page 38: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Challenges of Habitat Preservation

Page 39: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Reconnecting Habitat Zones

Page 40: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Public – Private Partnerships

Page 41: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Conservation Easements

Page 42: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Protect Habitat Wherever You Can

Page 43: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Daytime on Boulder’s Open Space

Page 44: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Nighttime on Boulder’s Open Space

Page 45: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Natural Resilience

Healing Nature Deficit Disorder

Page 46: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Biodiversity Is Nature’s Resilience

Page 47: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Serenity In Nature

Page 48: Nature's Role in Sustainability

SuddenlyNatureResets

Page 49: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Who’s Going To Clean Up This Mess?

Page 50: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Nature’s Volunteers Will

Page 51: Nature's Role in Sustainability

New Forests Emerge

Page 52: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Animals Return

Page 53: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Natural Happiness

The Pursuit Of

Page 54: Nature's Role in Sustainability

When Nature Is Happy

Page 55: Nature's Role in Sustainability

People Are Happy

Boulder Rated Happiest Community In The U.S.

Page 56: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Accountability

Page 57: Nature's Role in Sustainability

Synergy

Our Primary Task: Create The Conditions For

Page 58: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Thomas Berry

Page 59: Nature's Role in Sustainability

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”Albert Einstein

Page 60: Nature's Role in Sustainability

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

Rumi