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Motivations For Sustainability
Principles & Methodologies for Sustainable Design
Title Screen| 2.0.0
Week 2Motivations for Sustainability
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Schedule
• This is the first of a four part series
• Last we covered the Context for Sustainability
• Next week we will be covering Frameworks for Sustainability
2CABE Collaborative Studio Overview
Insert man versus nature slides
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2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.0.1
One of the phrases I hear quite often during the early stages of a sustainable design project is: “How much more will it cost?”
It got me to thinking about what is motivating this movement towards sustainability.
What are the underlying motivations?
If I can understand the motivations of everyone, I can create alignment towards a successful sustainable design project.
“It’s All About The Money”
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Overview
Part 1
ProfitThe Invisible
Hand
Part 2
EmpathyThe Second ofInvisible Hand
Sustainability The Great Resolution
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.0.1
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There are many motivations for human behavior.
This week we will look at the BIG TWO:
• Maximization of Profit• Maximization of Goodness• Right now these are generally held in
Opposition
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Underlying Motivations| 2.0.2Relevance
• Sustainability is the framework by which these two competing forces are resolved
• This will lay the foundation for the Brundtland Commission's work in 1987 at the UN on sustainability
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Elements associated with Maximization of Profit lead DIRECTLY to:
• Survival
• Minimization of pain and maximization of comfort*
• This is Natural as we are organisms and tend to act out of our
own SELF-INTEREST over the short term
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Underlying Motivations| 2.0.2Relevance
• Remember our history lesson from week 1. We saw many examples of this.
The term “Rational” is often used here: Its not rational to spend more money for a green building
* Thomas Hobbs among many others perfected this view during the Early Age of Industry
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Maximization of Goodness includes:• Concern for other’s well being and
concern for the Planet’s well-being
• These also leads to survival and comfort but it occurs INDIRECTLY or over the long term
• This is also Natural as we are organisms and tend to act out of our own
Enlightened self interest*
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Underlying Motivations| 2.0.2Relevance
• Remember our history lesson from week 1. We saw many examples of the Maximization of Goodness
• Sustainability deals with the “indirect efforts” to survive as in its more difficult to see the immediate benefits of an action.
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2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Summation| 2.0.2
Un-sustainability- Peak oil?- Severe climate change?- Ecosystem collapse?- Lower quality of life or
loss of life
Externalities, the Commons and Reserves
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2.3 The Great Resolution
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Sustainable Design
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World View and Motivations• Different people enact different world
views. • Many continue to operate out of an
industrial world view which views nature as endless and prizes profit as the deliverable.
• Others operate out of the perspectives from the Age of Information which could be characterized as more liberal in viewpoint, with a deeper sense of social justice or equity as the goal.
• Neither is perfect and each has value
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Underlying Motivations| 2.0.2Relevance
• Remember our history lesson from week 1. We saw examples of how shifts in world view impact our views on nature
• Sustainability may be the ethos that resolves the two previous world views into a new more powerful one
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We will look at the first big driver of human action: Self-Interest
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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The Invisible Hand | 2.1.0This Lecture
What motivates us to take action
• Self-Interest
• Comfort
• Profit
• Security
2.1The First Invisible
Hand
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
“Its all about the money”
Commute time to work
Work10 Minutes
25 Minutes
Direct benefitI got to work Quickly
Direct benefit
I feel great!
Indirect benefitsPositive/Negative
Indirect benefitsPositive/negative
This Section of this week’s lesson will cover these topics
Externalities
Externalities
Motivations?
Reserves
Incentives
The Commons(Nature)
Energy &Materials
Government can play a role
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• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions – our behaviors.
• Studies how people use resources to provide goods and services in the face of variable supply and demand.
Relevance
• Most environmental and economic problems are linked.
• Root “eco” gave rise to both ecology and economics.
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.1.1
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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• Subsistence economy = People meet needs
directly from nature and agriculture; do not
buy most products.
• Centrally planned economy = National
government determines how to allocate
resources.
• Capitalist market economy = Buyers and
sellers interact to determine prices and
production of goods and services.
The First Invisible Hand | 2.1.1Relevance
• Its probably not realistic to go back to a subsistence economy however there is great interest in the concept – urban farming
• I know that there are people from around the world in this class
• We will be focusing on the Capitalist Market Economy
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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• Adam Smith: Competition between people free to pursue their own economic self-interest will benefit society as a whole (assuming rule of law, private property, competitive markets).
• He is trying to resolve the direct benefits of action for profit with the indirect benefits
• This idea is a pillar of free-market capitalism today.
• It is also blamed by many for economic inequality.
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Assumptions of the Free Market
• Resources are infinite or substitutable.
• Long-term effects are discounted or
considered externalities which the government must deal with.
• Costs and benefits are internal. No
externalities• Growth is good.
Each of these can contribute to environmental problems.
Relevance
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Remember our history study last week?
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Even in capitalist market economies, governments must intervene to:
• Eliminate unfair advantages/monopolies
• Manage the Commons
• (air pollution, water, energy, etc)
• Provide safety nets
• Provide social services
Relevance
• Managing the commons is a critical aspect of the government and big part of sustainability
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Natural resources are “goods” we get from our environment. Also called the “The Commons”
“Ecosystem services” that nature performs for free include:
• Nature is now understood as a “service” to support human activities
• The Commons refers to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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• Ecosystem services (or part of ecosystem services) may be expressed in monetary terms.
• Ecosystem services also have value that is difficult to express/not usually expressed in monetary terms:
• Carrying Capacity
• Scientific value
• Educational value
• Aesthetic value
• Cultural value
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
The First Invisible Hand | 2.1.2Relevance
• All of this relates to what is know as the “commons.”
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Examples of how Externalities impact the commons
• Negative examples:
• Global warming
• Second hand smoke
• Noise
• Illness due to lack of vaccinations
• Positive Externalities
• Recued air pollution from riding a bike
Externalities| 2.1.3Relevance
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
2012 | Hurricane Sandy
www.cbsnews.com
2013 | Cyclone Phalan
2013 | Super Typhoon Haiyan
26 2014 | Australian Summer
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Tragedy of the Commons
• An economics theory developed by Garrett Hardin
• individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource.
• The "Commons" can include the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, fish stocks, national parks and any other shared resource. (Ecosystem Services)
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Tragedy of the Commons| 2.1.4Relevance
• There is a famous story regarding shared grazing pastures and use by farmers. It’s a story of resource depletion in the face of self interest.
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Managing the commons
• Taxes and regulation
• Incentives
• Privatization
• Finding Substitutes or new reserves
• Cap and Trade Markets
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Incentives
• When the free market doesn’t work – incentives are need to protect the commons
• Governments tend to act on indirect benefits while private enterprise act on direct benefits
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2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Incentives| 2.1.5Relevance
• Incentives to install solar panels are an example of how governments address the commons
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Reserves• In the free market, the reserves are
perceived as endless because:
• As resources become scarce, prices will go up which will:
• Lead to more investment, and/or exploration or the development of substitute technologies that will solve he problem
or
• Substitutes are different
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Reserves (problems)• Accessing the reserves can be hard to do
– resulting in more damaging negative externalities
• Tar Sands in Alberta
Substitutes are better
• Copper for telephone wires was getting scarce and more expensive
• Fiber Optics made form sand replaces copper. Its better for the environment and more efficient
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Reserves | 2.1.6Relevance
• Reserves are more difficult to obtain typically generating more environmental disasters
• Tar sands oil is very dirty and must be shipped via train or pipeline
• Substitutes are a big part of sustainability
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Reserves (problems)
Abundance - One of our readings for this week
• Cornucopian is a person who believes in the endless reserves of the planet earth.
• Fracking and Tar Sands are examples of this approach
• Deep sea oil rigs
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill • 11 men died
4.9 Million Barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf
• Damage to eco-system
• Damage to tourism
• Loss of income• Externalities
accounted for!
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Reserves (Opportunities)
Abundance
• The spirit of entrepreneurship is a major key to achieving sustainability
• Clean technology
• Recycling
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
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• The LEED® Rating Systems allows private companies to take an active part in reducing externalities which:
• Protects the Commons
• Improves health, reduces carbon emissions
• Extends the Reserves and encourages substitutes
• Leaves more fossil fuels in the ground + increases solar tech
• Lessens the need for governments to tax and regulate
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2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Summation | 2.1.7Relevance
Win – Win
• The company gets market value
• Is able to do the “Right Thing” or “be a part of the solution” which is the focus of the next lecture
www.USGBC.org
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2.3 The Great Resolution
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We will look at the second big driver of human action: Empathy, Altruism and the Second Invisible Hand
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Introduction| 2.2.0The Previous Lecture
• We discussed the Invisible Hand and one of the major human motivations: self-Interest
This Lecture
• The Second Invisible Hand and another major motivation: Empathy and Altruism
2.2The Second
Invisible Hand
Its never really about the money**Unless you are flat broke
What motivates us to take action?
– yes profit but…
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Its not about the money,Its about the value 2.0 Overview
Now economic growth and ecology regeneration and social responsibility are linked into the new Ethos of sustainability
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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www.co-society.com
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Ethos is a Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place“, "custom, habit", equivalent to Latin mores.
Ethos forms the root of ethikos (ἠθικός), meaning "moral, showing moral character". Late Latin borrowed it as ethicus, the feminine of which (ethica, for moral philosophy") is the
origin of the modern English word ethics.
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.2.5
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2.3 The Great Resolution
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Ethos• Ethos can simply mean the
disposition, character, or
fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement.
• The Ethos refers to the spirit which motivates the ideas and customs.
• As T.S. Eliot wrote, "The general ethos of the people they have to
govern determines the behavior of politicians.“
Example
“One historian noted that in the 1920s, "The ethos of the Communist party dominated every aspect of public life in Soviet Russia.“
The Ethos of Sustainability | 2.2.5
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Source T.S. Eliot, The idea of a Christian society (1940) p. 25 the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1996) p. 682
A low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is • a legal form of business entity in
the United States that was created to bridge the gap between non-profit and for-profit investing by providing a structure that facilitates investments in socially beneficial, for-profit ventures while simplifying compliance with Internal Revenue Service rules for "Program Related Investments".
Relevance:
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
Low Profit Limited Liability Company| 2.3.2
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Social Entrepreneurship • is the recognition of a social problem and the uses
of entrepreneurial principles to
• organize, create and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change.
While a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur also measures positive returns to society.
Social Entrepreneurship| 2.3.4
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Social Entrepreneurship
The main goal• To further broaden social, cultural, and
environmental goals.
• Social entrepreneurs are commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors,[but this need not preclude making a profit]
Relevance:
• Social Entrepreneurship is an example of the Ethos of Sustainability
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Its about Value
Relevance:
• Great gifts to society
• Lots of profit to be made
• This is a form of social entrepreneurship
Freeware| 2.3.5
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Corporate Social Responsibility (Policy)
Goal• The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility
for the company's actions• encourage a positive impact through its
activities:• environment, • consumers, • employees,• communities, • stakeholders and all other members
of the public sphere who may also be considered as stakeholders.
Relevance:
• CSR’s are a major driver of sustainability in some companies
• There are other motivations which will be covered next week
Review:
Motivation 1
Self–Interest is the great engine that fuels curiosity, invention and investment
&Motivation 2
Empathy across Time, Space and Species is the great engine of altruism
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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William McDonough’s Centennial Sermon
• Accuses designers to be complicit in environmental destruction
• We can do better
• Green versus sustainable
Relevance:
• McDonough’s speech among other events and initiatives launched in 1993 marked a turning point in the Green Design Movement
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2.3 The Great Resolution
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REGENERATING AMERICAby Robert Lockwood and Peter van Geldern
Self Interest
Relevance:
• This is a great diagram and a great book
But
• We should avoid choices and seek resolutions
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Conclusions | 2.3.13
Empathy
The Invisible Hand of Adam Smith Self-Interest
The Second Invisible Hand
Of Empathy
Relevance:
• Rather than seek balance or a choice between two paths, this model reflects integration
• The two competing forces are now woven together to form a new world view
The Sustainable Future
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Sustainability is a not a diet, its not about reduction only
Sustainability is a not a balance between empathy and self-interest
Sustainability is a BOTH AND proposition
Sustainability is the Great Resolution between:
Self Interest (Profit)
+Empathy (Altruism)
Addition: 10 + 10 = 20
or
10 x 10 = 100
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Late Age of Industry
Self-InterestMaximize Profits
Age of Information
EmpathyMitigate Damage
Age of Integration
SustainabilityMaximize Profits,
Regenerate Nature, Build Equity, Create Beauty
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2.3 The Great Resolution
Conclusions | 2.3.13
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IBM Solar Collector Magnifies Sun By 2000X – These Could Provide Power To The Entire Planet http://banoosh.com/blog/2014/02/27/ibm-solar-collector-
magnifies-sun-2000x-provide-power-entire-planet/
Future Energy
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Next Week
We will be covering Frameworks for sustainability• Triple Bottom Line
• Transcendent Sustainability
• Quadruple Bottom line
• Integral Theory and Integral Sustainable Design
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How do we organize our actions to reach high levels of sustainability
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http://www.slowmoney.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFZnKnK-Ew to see a movie
From their web site: A Maifesto of sortsI. We must bring money back down to earth.
II. There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, finance that is too complex. Therefore, we must slow our money down -- not all of it, of course, but enough to matter.
III. The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence.
IV. We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises.
V. Let us celebrate the new generation of entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are showing the way from Making A Killing to Making a Living.
discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Experience
Equity
Ecology
Economy
Vector of Emphasis
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2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Incentives| 2.1.1Relevance
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
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• Empathy is the capacity to recognize feelings that are being experienced by another sentient. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they are able to feel compassion.
• The English word was coined in 1909 by E.B. Titchener as an attempt to translate the German word "Einfühlungsvermögen", a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by Theodor Lipps.
• It was later re-translated into the German language (Germanized) as "Empathie", and is still in use there.
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
Ethos is a Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place“, "custom, habit", equivalent to Latin mores.
Ethos forms the root of ethikos (ἠθικός), meaning "moral, showing moral character". Late Latin borrowed it as ethicus, the feminine of which (ethica, for moral philosophy") is the
origin of the modern English word ethics.
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
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Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
Applied Ethics, about how moral outcomes can be achieved in specific situations
(Situational Values)
Sustainability is a Value System + a set Behaviors that align
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2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
Incentives| 2.1.1Relevance
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
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social equity is the orphaned element of Sustainable Development.
In 1996 the President's Council on Sustainable Development defined Social Equity as "equal opportunity, in a safe and healthy environment."
Social Equity is the least defined and least understood element of the triad that is Sustainable Development yet is integral in creating sustainability - balancing economic, environmental and social equity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_equity
Relevance:
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
Religion is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature.
Is sustainability a religion?Sustainability lacks the higher spiritual being
Religion is based on faith?Sustainability is based on facts. or at least it should be– see climate deniers
Transcend bias to create frameworks for decision making
2.0 Overview
2.1 The Invisible Hand
2.2 The Second Invisible Hand
2.3 The Great Resolution
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.1.1Relevance:
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
Motivations For Sustainability
Principles & Methodologies for Sustainable Design
• Look around – The more we spend time together, the more we realize that we have much more in common than we do differ
• But we know that different people get treated different
• This brings us to equity and ethics
• Economics is a discipline that deals with how we value and perceive our environment.
• Economics influence our decisions and actions.
The Second Invisible Hand | 2.1.1
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Motivations For Sustainability
Principles & Methodologies for Sustainable Design
The First Invisible Hand The Second Invisible Hand
Human Humane
Maximization of Profit Maximization of GoodnessDirect benefits Indirect benefits