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Green Bag Lunch January 14, 2015 Jeremy Bean Sustainability Lives Here

Global Population

The Sustainability Pyramid: A Hierarchy of Frameworks & Tools Food, Water, Shelter Gravity Carrying Capacity Natural Laws Adapted from Hitchcock & Willard

Framework

A Version of the Natural Step Funnel

Food, Water, Shelter Gravity Carrying Capacity Natural Laws The Natural Step Triple Bottom Line Frameworks The Sustainability Pyramid: A Hierarchy of Frameworks & Tools Adapted from Hitchcock & Willard

Food, Water, Shelter Gravity Carrying Capacity Natural Laws The Natural Step Triple Bottom Line Frameworks Recycling LEED STARS Tools (Standards, Analysis, Reporting) The Sustainability Pyramid: A Hierarchy of Frameworks & Tools Adapted from Hitchcock & Willard

“Sustainability is the simultaneous pursuit of human health and happiness, environmental quality, and economic well-being for current and future generations.”

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Institutional Strategies & Goals - Promoting Our Health - Mont Alto Goal “Encourage communal activities … ” Individual Goal Work with some of the occupational or physical therapy students to promote movement for sedentary professions.

Individual Goal Work with some of the occupational or physical therapy students to promote movement for sedentary professions. Individual SMART Goal Collaborate with three OT or PT students next fall to build an educational campaign to promote movement for sedentary professions and pilot it with 5 people in my unit in Winter Survey participants to see if the stretches helped them feel better.

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.” -- Edward Everett Hale

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Thank you for attending! 2014 – 2015 Green Bag Lunch Series Upcoming Presentations: March 25, 2015 Educational Equity Green Team presentation: “Diversity and Sustainability – What’s the Connection?”

Discussion Questions Feel free to use any of these questions, or ones that your Green Team creates. Did your concept of the word “sustainability” change after hearing Jeremy’s presentation and if so how? How does sustainability connect to your role at the University? Is your unit already engaged with sustainability and if so how? What are other opportunities for engagement? With this understanding of sustainability, how do you see yourself helping others to understand this concept?