Stevens Point, April 26, 2014
Torbjörn Lahti
Sustainable
Sweden Association
EMEa
President
Sustainable Sweden Association
www.sustainablesweden.org
Institute for Eco-Municipality Education &
Assistance, IEMEA
www.instituteforecomunicipalities.org
torbjorn@sustainablesweden.se
Founder, share-owner,
Esam AB
www.esam.se
torbjorn.lahti@esam.se
Global Threats
Global Financial Crisis
Climate Change
Peak oil
Extinction of plants and animals
Shortage of food and water
Growth of population
Increasing consumption
Ephidemies
Chemical disperse
and so on.....
The world has become small
and limited.
We need a new economic
model that respect these
conditions!
The Funnel
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY
The margin for
action narrows
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEMAND
The present
The future
The Industrial
society
Production
The Sustainable
society
Fundamental needs
Sustainable development
Growth
Quantity
Materialism
Quality
Quality of life
Consumer society
Capital
Short - term
Money
Export
Caring society
Knowledge
Long - term
Real resources
Self - sufficiency
Övertorneå
“The Bumble Bee”
Eco-municipality 1.0
Eco-municipality initiatives
Sustainable Sweden Tour
Sekom - 87 municip. + 3 counties
Norway
Finland
IrlandDenmarkEstonia
Canada
USA
Italy
Iraque
Mexico
El Salvador
Colombia
Peru
Chile
Brazil
Ghana
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uruguay
Argentina
Nepal
China Japan
South Africa
Australia
New Zeeland
Three types of memberships:
Partner organizations:
(Capacity Centers, Coordinators,
etc)
Eco-Municipalities:
(cities, towns,
counties)
Global Change
Agents:
Professionals, Fire
Souls
The Eco-Municipality Concept
• Oldest exicting network for sustainable development
• Based on a scientific concept
• Focus on
Systemview
• Long-term perspective
• Back–casting
• Global perspective
• Democracy and fairness
• Common rules but local solutions
Eco-Municipality 5.0
CONTENTS:
System view
Visionary process – “back-casting”
Democracy and participation
Horizontal integrations – “building bridges”
Vertical integrations – working at each level – networks
Process Leadership and ongoing learning
Building platforms
Key-components in a succesful process
Doing
Always and at the same time
Eco-Municipality 5.0
CONTENTS:
System view
Regarding
drill holes
Social dimension
Ecological
dimension
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Economic
dimension
and the way of making them
useful for the whole:
Economic
dimension
Social dimension
Ecological
dimension
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Structured
survey
Nature
Society
Human
Three
important
systems for
sustainable
development
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
The Society
The Human
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
Relationsship
3.
Strategies for
sustainable
development
4.
Activities for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
E C O - M U N I C I P A L I T Y
5.0
Learning - Planing - Doing
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationships
3.
Strategies for
sustainable
development
4.
Activities for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
The Eco-System
Natural Laws
The Society
The Human
Fundamental
needs
Entropy = Chaos
Exergy = Energy quality
Large amounts
of entropy
Low exergy
Small amounts
of entropy
High exergy
Short wave radiation from the sun
Exergy
Energy
Matter
Long wave radiation out to space
– We consume exergy, not energy or matter.
Source:
John Holmberg
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Natural Cycles
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationships
3.
Strategies for
sustainable
development
4.
Activities for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
The Eco-System
Natural Laws
The Society
The Human
Fundamental
needs
The fundamental
human needs
Permanence
Subsistence
according to
Manfred Max-Neef
Protection
Understanding
Affection
Participation
Idleness
Identity
Creation
Freedom
NEEDS (Ontological)
BEING
HAVING
FUNDAMENTAL
HUMAN NEEDS
INTERACTING
DOING
NEEDS Matrix
NEEDS
SUBSISTENCE
PROTECTION
AFFECTION
UNDERSTANDING
PARTICIPATION
IDLENESS
CREATION
IDENTITY
FREEDOM
BEING
HAVING
DOING
INTERACTING
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationships
3.
Strategies for
sustainable
development
4.
Activities for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
The Eco-System
The Society
The Human
Natural Laws
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
No society or civilization have existed
for a long time without:
- being given the power to meet the
fundamental need of citizens
- stay within the frame-work of what
nature can produce
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationship
3.
Strategies for
sustainability
4.
Actions for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
Natural Laws
SP 1-4
The Society
The Human
The Eco-System
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
Natural Laws
The sustainable society
The Green-House
Effect
Economic Sustainability, SP 4
COSTS
REVENUES
Efficient use of resources within
nature’s limits, SP 1-3
To meet fundamental needs in a fair way
built/econo
mic
ASSETS/
DEBTS
nature/ecological
social/culture
human/individu
al
kWh/4 persons/year
40 000
Saving potentials –
energy
30 000
20 000
Saving potential
10 000
House
Car
(15 000 km)
Food
Input of energy per extracted energy (foodproduction)
ENERGY GAIN
50:1
20:1
The chineese farmer- cultivation during the 1930th-decade
10:1
labour intensive cultivation of potatoes
5:1
labour intensive corn cultivation
2:1
Sugar-beet and wheat in GB, maise and barley in US and GB, soyabeans
1:1
Potatoes, rice, coastfishing and milkcows in US and GB, allotments
1:2
Beans, sugar from beets, bread from bakery, small-scale eggproduction,
The farming in the 1950th-decade in GB
1:5
Egg-factories, beef-cows out on grazing, the farming in the 1960th-decade in
GB
Source: “Byggekologi”
1:20
Beef-cows feeding, seafishing
LOSS OF
ENERGY
1:10
Broiler
production
V. Bokalders
Source: “V. Bokalders”, Bygg Ekologi nr 4
The four System Conditions are:
•• based
on
a
scientifically
accepted
worldpicture
necessary to reach
sustainability
• enough to cover all aspects of
the sustainability concept
• general enough to include all relevant activities
sustainability
•ofconcrete
enough to give guidance of activities
as direction goals in problem analysises and
solutions
• mutual exclusive and together complete
to facilitate structural analysises of the issues
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationship
3.
Strategies for
sustainability
4.
Actions for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
Natural Laws
SP 1-4
The Society
The Human
The Eco-System
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
Natural Laws
SP 4
Core values eg:
Public Health
Democracy
SP 1-4 +
“Connections
to Nature”
Eco-Municipality 5.0
CONTENTS:
System view
Visionary process – “back-casting”
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationship
3.
Strategies for
sustainability
4.
Actions for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
Natural Laws
SP 1-4
The Society
The Human
The Eco-System
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
Natural Laws
SP 4
Core values
Back-casting from sustainable principals
SP 1-4 +
“Connections
to Nature”
Checklist for the action
programme
Is the activity/action leading
towards sustainability ?
Is the activity/action creating a
flexible plattform ?
Does the activity/action pay-off?
Do we know enough?
Eco-Municipality 5.0
CONTENTS:
System view
Visionary process – “back-casting”
Democracy and participation
Horizontal integrations – “building bridges”
Vertical integrations – working at each level – networks
Process Leadership and ongoing learning
Building platforms
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationship
Natural Laws
SP 1-4
The Society
The Human
The Eco-System
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
Natural Laws
SP 4
Core Values
3.
Strategies for
sustainability
Back-casting
Participatory processes
Horizontal integration
Vertical integration
Process Leadership and continous learning
Building platforms
4.
Actions for
sustainable
development
Learning - Planning - Doing
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
SP 1-4 +
“Connections
to Nature”
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Levels
The Eco-System
1.
The System
How it works
2.
Sustainable
relationship
3.
Strategies for
sustainability
4.
Actions for
sustainable
development
5.
Tools for
evaluation and
measurement
Natural Laws
SP 1-4
The Society
The Human
The Eco-System
Formal and
informal rules
Fundamental
needs
Natural Laws
SP 4
Core values
SP 1-4 +
“Connections
to Nature”
E C O - M U N I C I P A L I T Y
Learning - Planning - Doing
Eg. Management Systems, LCA, Ecological
Footprints, etc
5.0
Thank you!
We need Rules for the SD game!
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The four chambers of change
According to Claes Jansen
Good
Belief
CENSURE
Bad
Belief