Sustainable Building and How it Impacts Coastal Decision Makers

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Sustainable BuildingandHow it Impacts Coastal
Decision Makers

• Wally Peters
• University of South Carolina
• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
• Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions

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OrLocal Is Part of Global
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First Principles for Earth
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Systems Analysis

• Basic science
• Matter and energy cannot appear or disappear
• Matter and energy tend to spread spontaneously
• Material quality is concentration and structure
  of matter
• Material quality on earth is net produced only by
  sun-driven processes

Adapted from The Natural Step
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Playtime

• Sun--Orange
• Producers--Green
• Consumers--Pink
• Decomposers--Purple
• Abiotic Chemicals--Gray/Green
• WaterBlue

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Complexity and Ethics
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Continuous Improvement The Shewhart/ Deming
Cycle Plan, Do, Check, Act
(PDCA)
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LEOPOLDS LAND ETHIC

• A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO PRESERVE THE
  INTEGRITY, STABILITY, AND BEAUTY OF THE BIOTIC
  COMMUNITY. IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS OTHERWISE.

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CALLICOTTS MODIFIED LAND ETHIC

• A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO DISTURB THE
  BIOTIC COMMUNITY ONLY AT NORMAL SPATIAL AND
  TEMPORAL SCALES. IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS
  OTHERWISE.

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Dimensions of Sustainable Development
focus on maximizing income while maintaining
the stock of capital assets (human, natural and
manufacturing capital)
Economic
issues of valuation in a global context
issues of intra-generational equity
Environmental
Social
issues of inter-generational equity
focus on stability of social and cultural systems
focus on stability of biological and physical
systems
Developed from the World Bank Presented by Dr.
Jorge Vanegas at Building Energy 1997
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• The world that we have created with our way of
  thinking has problems that cannot be solved
  thinking the way we do now.

Albert Einstein