UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F SUSTAINABILITY (IS) CENTRAL Graham - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F

SUSTAINABILITY (IS) CENTRAL Graham H. Pyke University of Technology, Sydney

OUTLINE • The Future – Why care? • Sustainability – What is it? • Whose job is it?/ What’s been done? • Our approach • What can you do?

THE FUTURE Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

THE FUTURE “Why should I care about future generations? What did they ever do for me?”

SUSTAINABILITY: A STORY Colorado Rocky Mountains

SUSTAINABILITY: THE STORY CONTINUES East River Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

THE RIVER uts.edu.au

KAYAKING uts.edu.au

‘STUPID IS AS STUPID FALLS’ uts.edu.au

SURVIVORS? uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY IS … Doing things today, so that ‘we’ can do the same things tomorrow, the next day and so on. uts.edu.au

PILLARS OF SUSTAINABILITY • Environment • Economics • Health • Social uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY: WHOSE JOB IS IT? • Researchers • Academic Institutions • Education (Primary &/or Secondary) • Government • Business • Professional Bodies • Media uts.edu.au

RESEARCHERS: CRITICISMS • Moral Responsibility  Inform  Convince • Lack the ‘Right Stuff’  Inclination  Other priorities  Training uts.edu.au

RESEARCHERS: REALITY uts.edu.au

RESEARCHERS: THEIR SUSTAINABILITY Evaluation Criteria  Publications  Grants  Students uts.edu.au

…PLUS CITATIONS uts.edu.au

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: SOME CRITICISMS Training  Sustainability Science  Presentations  Media Support uts.edu.au

REALITY: E.G., UTS Sustainability -  Programs Institute for Sustainable Futures Centre for Environmental Sustainability  Courses  Practices uts.edu.au

UTS: FUTURE Sustainability Leadership uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY FOR UTS 420 Academic Ranking of World Universities 440 460  Reputation RANKING  Students 480  $$ 500 520 540 560 2010 2011 2012 2013 YEAR uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY: WHOSE JOB IS IT? • Researchers • Academic Institutions • Education (Primary &/or Secondary) • Government • Business • Professional Bodies • Media uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY: WHOSE JOB IS IT? • Researchers Plus … • Academic Institutions • Education (Primary &/or Secondary) • Government • Business Community • Professional Bodies • Media uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY DANCE Together and in unison uts.edu.au

PARTNERSHIP • UTS/ Stanford • Sustainability Central/ Millennium Alliance for Humanity & the Biosphere • Paul & Graham • Colleagues uts.edu.au

SUSTAINABILITY CENTRAL (SC) & MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE FOR HUMANITY & THE BIOSPHERE (MAHB) • Science • Leadership uts.edu.au

SC/ MAHB • Champions uts.edu.au

SC/ MAHB • Masses Lowy Institute uts.edu.au

SC/ MAHB • Masses • Re-drafting the message Intelligent, but under and mis-informed • Expanding delivery mechanisms uts.edu.au

WANT MORE INFO? MAHB SC mahb.stanford.edu sustainabilitycentral.org uts.edu.au

POPULATION I = P x A x T (Ehrlich & Holdren 1971) uts.edu.au

WHAT MIGHT YOU DO? • Informed • Messengers • Vote uts.edu.au

WHAT MIGHT YOU DO? • Informed • Messengers • Vote • Government • Business • Schools • Wallet uts.edu.au

Sustainability (Is) Central uts.edu.au