1. Sebastian Copeland SOS, Passengers of the Ice lady Series: Antarctica: The Global Warning Archival Pigment Inkjet Print 36 x 55 cm 2006 Gerlach Strait, Antarctica

2. Alternative indicators at macro and local/ community level are needed to bring greater legitimacy to CED practice, to increase access to resources, and to influence policy

3. A Concept A Process A Way of Life Lives within limits Understands interconnections Ensures esquitable distribution of resources & opportunities Meets basic resource needs

4. One of the most fundamental challenges in achieving a sustainable economy is asking the question more growth for what, of what and for whom at what price to community, quality of life and the environment. -Pembina Institute

5. Variety of Frameworks: Domain based, goal based, sectoral, issue based, causal, and combination. Visioning process : Community vision, goals, and indicators. Monitor: Key indicators. NB: An indicator that can be supported by available data may be more practical than one that requires extensive data gathering.

6. Point to problematic areas, where links between economy, environment and society are weak Help to monitor health so that negative trends are caught and dealt with before they become a problem Are useful to measure complex conditions or those without direct measurement Benoit Aquin - Winner Prix Pictet 2008 Untitled 01 Series: The Chinese 'Dust Bowl' Ink Jet Art Canvas, 70 x 107 cm 2006 Sanggen Dalai, Inner Mongolia, China

7. Standards are just emerging Data may not be available for the best and most appropriate sustainability indicators Developing a set of indicators for a sustainable community requires balancing many different needs within that community Deciding WHICH and HOW MANY indicators to keep can be difficult Many communities have to fit traditional data sources & measures for indicators to their purpose Edward Burtynsky Feng Jie #3 & #4 (diptych) Series: Three Gorges Dam Project Digital Chromogenic Colour Print 101 x 152 cm (each) 2002 China

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9. Piecemeal Views economy, society, environment as SEPARATE Community problems viewed as isolated and independent from each other QUANTITATIVE - use numbers to show progress Assumes that resources are inexhaustible Robert Polidori 6328 North Miro Street Series: After The Flood Fujicolour Crystal Archive Print 122 x 183 cm 2006 New Orleans

10. The gross domestic product (GDP) measures the final market value of all goods and services. GDP per capita is often used as an indicator of standard of living. The traditional approach reflects only the amount of economic activity, regardless of the effect of that activity on the community’s social and environmental health. In contrast, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) attempts to address criticisms by taking the same raw information supplied for GDP and then adjust for income distribution, add for the value of household and volunteer work, and subtract for crime and pollution

11. Economic indicators: number of jobs versus number of jobs that pay a living wage and include benefits Environmental indicators : tons of solid waste generated versus percent of products produced that are durable, repairable or readily recyclable or compostable Societal indicators : number of registered voters versus number of eligible voters who vote in elections

12. SROI = Social Return on Investment The process involves: - Identifying social value with stakeholders and the activities that will create that value - Defining indicators to know value creation has taken place and defining proxies for any indicators not easily monetised/quantified - Comparing value of change to cost of change. Christian Cravo Amazonia, Riomadeira, Series: Waters of Hope, Rivers of Tears Gelatin Silver Print, 50 x 75 cm 2004 Amazon, Brazil

13. Livelihood = capabilities, assets & activities required for a means of living Characteristics of sustainable livelihoods: - Resilient – can cope with, recover from stresses - Sustainable – maintain & improve livelihoods while maintaining & enhancing assets on which livelihoods depend - Equitable – more equal distribution of assets, capabilities & opportunities & an end to discrimination - Future-oriented - Environmentally conscious - don’t undermine natural resource base

14. Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA): mainly applied in area of poverty reduction/elimination in poor countries; people-centered; used to achieve sustainable human development Livelihoods outcomes: increased income; increased well-being; reduced vulnerability; improved food security; more sustainable use of natural resources, etc

15. Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #36 Series: Tailings Chromogenic Colour Print 101 x 152 cm 1996 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

16. Benoit Aquin - Winner Prix Pictet 2008 Artist statement One of the greatest environmental disasters of our time: The Chinese 'Dust Bowl' is probably the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Deserts cover 18% of China today. Of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were created by humans. With unsustainable practices, to date, Chinese farmers and herders have transformed about 400,000 square kilometres of cropland and verdant prairie into new desert. The shepherds have overgrazed the steppes, allowing their sheep and goats to chew the grass all the way down to its roots. The farmers, for their part, have over-exploited the arable land by opening fragile grasslands to cultivation and overpumping rivers and aquifers in the oases bordering the ancient deserts. As the deep aquifer under the North China Plain is depleted, the region is losing its last water reserve; its only safety cushion, stretching the capacity of the Yellow River. The soil, once it is barren, is swept up by the wind into dust storms, battering the capital, Beijing, and then moving on to Korea and Japan. The most massive of the yellow clouds of dust make their way across the Pacific and reach North America. The loss of precious topsoil for Chinese agriculture ends up polluting both China’s cities and countries halfway around the world. The area of the desert thus created is equivalent to more than half the farmland in Canada. Three hundred million people are affected by dust storms in China. One hundred and eighty million people depend on the Yellow River. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been relocated and cities with ecological refugees have been created. The Chinese “Dust Bowl” is a fascinating subject. It is a compelling environmental manmade disaster and photographically an interesting journey. When I embarked on this trip I was convinced that I could make surreal images and at the same time raise awareness. This is about scarce water resources, desertification and ecological refugees in China.

17. Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #36 Series: Tailings Chromogenic Colour Print 101 x 152 cm 1996 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada