NMSU’s School of Sustainability David M. Boje, Ph.D. Chair, NMSU Sustainability Council Coordinator, Greening the Curriculum Regents Professor
Eco-Village Concept, founded by Vietnam Veterans of Austin E.g. Austin TX started with 27 acres (now 200 homes): Mobile Loaves and Fishes’ Alan Graham, says ‘one reason many in the nearby community are on board is because there will also be a bed and breakfast in the village and an Alamo Drafthouse outdoor movie theater. Graham adds that if 200 chronically homeless people get back on their feet, it could save Central Texas taxpayers about $10 million a year.
We use HUD codes, NOT RV codes Definition of a Tiny House - Tiny Houses differ from existing classifications of recreational vehicles, manufactured housing, and homes on permanent foundations. - See more at: http://timbertrails.tv/Government-HUD-Rule-Could-Prohibit-Use-of-Tiny-House-as-Dwelling-Domicile-Primary-Residence#sthash.kqBOzfY0.dpuf
MICRO-ENTERPRISES POWERED BY VETERANS Micro-Enterprises, such as E-Bay Store, Machine Shop, Carpentry, Organic Farming, and so on. Micro-enterprises have one to five persons doing business What about microenterprise constructing Tiny Homes on wheels using sustainable construction practices?
Phase I: University – Option 2 (Board of Regents, NMSU); 29.81 acres; retail $283,200; Parcel ID: 03-07820 Location: I 10 & 1 25 south Chiola Road
Phase II; City owned property
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Boje’s 1st principle: Sow and Reap When I met Grace Ann, I did sow a thought… Sow a thought, Reap a word Sow a word, Reap an action Sow an action, Reap a habit Sow a habit, Reap a character Sow a character, Reap a destiny “Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny” FRANK OUTLAWLate President of the Bi-Lo Stores Often wrongly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, its from news article by Frank Outlaw in May 1977, and popular again by Steven Covey (quote investigator)
Boje’s 2nd Principle of SOS "All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.” from Arthur Wayne Jones, as cited in David P. Hanna (1988: 38; 2001: 19) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/10/watch-your-thoughts/ Published on Jun 27, 2014 Often misattributed to W. Edward Deming in management, or Paul Batalden in Health policy (YouTube) What Deming did say: "Problems are the fault of the system 96% of the time and individuals 4% of the time." -- W. Edwards Deming Paul Batalden, Medical Director, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is Professor of Pediatrics, Community and Family Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth Medical School. He teaches about the leadership of improvement of health care Also see Hanna, David (2001). Leadership for the Ages: Delivering Today's Results, Building Tomorrow's Legacy David P. Hanna Executive Excellence Pub., 2001 - Business & Economics Arthur Wayne Jones says he had the insight 3- years ago -- http://ezinearticles.com/?All-Organizations-Are-Perfectly-Designed-to-Get-the-Results-They-Get&id=6560665
University Negations of People & Answerability to Ecosystem Ontic Facts: NMSU is an entity that is going through cost-cutting ($12.3 million already) and more to come. Each cutting is an absenting (120 positions of faculty, staff, mid-level administrators) – have already been cut: July 14 2016”belt-tightening continues: New Mexico State University said … it will cut more than 120 faculty and staff positions and trim budgets across academic and administrative units to save more than $12 million this fiscal year” source “NMSU will eliminate 89 vacant positions, including 27 faculty and 62 staff. The system will cut 37 currently staffed positions, including three faculty and 34 staff. Human resources will review whether staffers whose jobs are cut may be transferred into other vacancies” source Entire departments & units are being merged, or dissolved ($828,000 cut by dissolving Health Services), “The cuts all apply to the university’s $178 million “instruction and general,” or I&G budget – the portion of the $622 million total system budget that is covered by tuition and appropriations” source Before changes enrollment has fallen to about 15,490 in 2015. Will the transformations make it fall further? How as budget-cutting math logic become a positivist epistemology of ontic facts, that has substituted itself for ontology, of the Being-ness of the University-in-the-world globally in world capitalism, and locally, in its ecosystem of New Mexico. Boje -5 Ontologies for IRB
WHAT DID NMSU AGGIES DO TO CREATE … Julie Ann Wrigley GAVE $25 MILLION WHAT DID NMSU AGGIES DO TO CREATE …
SOS = REASON + UNDERSTANDING At the center of the SOS figure is a green ‘Heart of Care’, which I presented along with joni newcomer and several management and marketing doctoral students (of Mgt 655 systems theory doctoral seminar) to our former university President Barbara Couture, former Provost Wendy Wilkins, and still our VP of Research, Vimal Chaitanya, May 2011. Aguirre, G; Boje, D.; Cast, M.; Conner, S. Helmuth, C.; Mittal, R.; Saylors, R.; Tourani, N.; Vendette, S.; Yan, T. Q. (2013). “University Sustainability and System Ontology,” Special Issue: Organizational Innovations and Responses for Universal Equilibrium, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Vol. 15(4): 577-618. Co-authors are from Management and Marketing departments of New Mexico State University who did research interviews with the sustainability leaders on main campus, and are listed in alphabetical order. Click here for pre press pdf.
Education ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification education & research of Sustainability Council ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses ER-8: Sustainability Courses by Department ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes ER-10: Undergraduate Program in Sustainability ER-11: Graduate Program in Sustainability ER-12: Sustainability Immersive Experience ER-13: Sustainability Literacy Assessment ER-14: Incentives for Dev. Sustainability Courses RESEARCH ER-15: Sustainability Research Identification ER-16: Faculty Involved in Sustainability Research ER-17: Departments Involved in Sustainability Research ER-18: Sustainability Research Incentives ER-19: Interdisciplinary Research in Tenure and Promotion AC 9: Academic Research* AC 10: Support for Research* AC 11: Access to Research* Education AC 1: Academic Courses AC 2: Learning Outcomes* AC 3: Undergraduate Program* AC 4: Graduate Program* AC 5: Immersive Experience* AC 6: Sustainability Literacy Assessment AC 7: Incentives for Developing Courses AC 8: Campus as a Living Laboratory* ER-1: Student Sustainability Educators Program ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign ER-3: Sustainability in New Student Orientation ER-4: Sustainability Outreach and Publications Tier2-1: Student Group Tier2-2: Organic Garden Tier2-3: Model Room in a Residence Hall Tier2-4: Themed Housing Tier2-5: Sustainable Enterprise Tier2-6: Sustainability Events Tier2-7: Outdoors Program Tier2-8: Themed Semester or Year
Purchasing OPERATIONS Transportation Waste Water Air & Climate OP 12: Electronics Purchasing OP 13: Cleaning Product Purchasing OP 14: Office Paper Purchasing OP 15: Inclusive and Local Purchasing OP 16: Life Cycle Cost Analysis OP 17: Guidelines for Business Partners Transportation OP 18: Campus Fleet* OP 19: Student Commute Modal Split* OP 20: Employee Commute Modal Split OP 21: Support for Sustainable Transportation Waste OP 22: Waste Minimization OP 23: Waste Diversion OP 24: Construction and Demolition Waste Diversion* OP 25: Hazardous Waste Management Water OP 26: Water Use OP 27: Rainwater Management OP 28: Wastewater Management OPERATIONS Air & Climate OP 1: Greenhouse Gas Emissions OP 2: Outdoor Air Quality Buildings OP 3: Building Operations and Maintenance* OP 4: Building Design and Construction* OP 5: Indoor Air Quality Dining Services OP 6: Food and Beverage Purchasing* OP 7: Low Impact Dining* Energy OP 8: Building Energy Consumption OP 9: Clean and Renewable Energy Grounds OP 10: Landscape Management* OP 11: Biodiversity*
PAE Planning Administration engagement Coordination, Planning & Governance PA 1: Sustainability Coordination PA 2: Sustainability Planning PA 3: Governance Diversity & Affordability PA 4: Diversity and Equity Coordination PA 5: Assessing Diversity and Equity PA 6: Support for Underrepresented Groups PA 7: Support for Future Faculty Diversity PA 8: Affordability and Access Health, Wellbeing & Work PA 9: Employee Compensation PA 10: Assessing Employee Satisfaction PA 11: Wellness Program PA 12: Workplace Health and Safety Investment PA 13: Committee on Investor Responsibility* PA 14: Sustainable Investment* PA 15: Investment Disclosure* INNOVATION (IN) Campus Engagement EN 1: Student Educators Program EN 2: Student Orientation* EN 3: Student Life EN 4: Outreach Materials and Publications EN 5: Outreach Campaign EN 6: Employee Educators Program EN 7: Employee Orientation EN 8: Staff Professional Development Public Engagement EN 9: Community Partnerships EN 10: Inter-Campus Collaboration EN 11: Continuing Education* EN 12: Community Service EN 13: Community Stakeholder Engagement EN 14: Participation in Public Policy EN 15: Trademark Licensing* EN 16: Hospital Network*
SOS NMSU HISTORY OF SUSTAINABLITY School of Sustainability is 3rd year initiative of the GREENING THE CURRICULUM program funded by President’s Excellence Initiative in 2014 SOS (School of Sustainability) is in partnership with Sustainability Council WWRI Water Resources Research Institute SWTDI Southwest Technology Development Institute LTER Long Term Ecological Research · Jornada Basin WERC Waste-management Education and Research Consortium WERC new name is: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development WWRI Water Resources Research Institute SWTDI Southwest Technology Development Institute LTER Long Term Ecological Research · Jornada Basin WERC Waste-management Education and Research Consortium; new name is: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development For entire history greening.nmsu.edu
NMSU’s approach Sustainability Council is organized around STARS We use STARS to measure People, Planet, and Profit Sustainability Council is organized around STARS Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™
Triple Bottom Line fantasy - 3BL http://www.chinauscenter.org/attachments/0000/0001/CradleDesign.pdf For more CRITIQUE of the Triple Bottom Line 3Bl please see this excellent article Triple Bottom Line advocates never actually propose how to measure the ADDITION of profit bottom line + People bottom line + Planet bottom line… Without an agreed methodology, the income statement trumps the people and planet measurement. CRITICS: “We submit that the only way to make sense of such a claim is by formulating it (roughly) in the way we have with the Aggregation Claim, above. That is, we cannot see how it could make sense to talk about a bottom line analogous to the bottom line of the income statement unless there is an agreed-upon methodology that allows us, at least in principle, to add and subtract various data until we arrive at a net sum.
SOS 11 BILLION
CARBON FOOTPRINT of USA SOS Total greenhouse gases produced by human activities = tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Natural CO2 cycleCO2 gets re- absorbed by plants and trees
SOS FACTS 5% of world’s population in the USA create Average USA person’s carbon footprint 20 tons carbon dioxide per year compared 1.1 tons for average person in India 5% of world’s population in the USA create 20% of carbon dioxide emissions & 30% of the world’s resources consumed. GREENHOUSE GASSES (GHGs: Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide): Average USA person generates > 10 times the GHG as the average Chinese GLOBAL CARBON EMISSION: Average USA person generates 10 tons per person per year, but average person elsewhere produces only 1 ton per person per year
SOS Definitions Quantum (noun) Smallest quantity of radiant energy that any system possesses to exist Quanta Plural of quantum; quanta are waves & particles; matter & non-matter; mass & non-mass; here & there at same time; measurable & non-measurable Quantus Latin for ‘how much?’
Reaching our Quanta Limit SOS Reaching our Quanta Limit “Beyond a certain median per capita energy level, the political system and cultural context of any society must decay” (Ivan Illich, Energy & Equity essay).
DOOM: POPULATION 11 BILLION In year 2100 Temperature Trend Adapted from http://electromontis.net/evoligion/_E/E20.shtml In Lovelock's 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia, he argues that the lack of respect humans have had for Gaia, through the damage done to rainforests and the reduction in planetary biodiversity, is testing Gaia's capacity to minimize the effects of the addition of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This eliminates the planet's negative feedbacks and increases the likelihood of homeostatic positive feedback potential associated with runaway global warming. REVENGE of GAIA
Which produces more CO2? TRANSPORTATION or COWS SOS Which produces more CO2? TRANSPORTATION or COWS
Would you Bike to Work? Boje’s Recumbent Trike
Who consumes more WATER & FOOD? HUMANS or COWS SOS Albert Einstein said “Nothing will benefit health and increase the chance for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet” –Albert Einstein
Would you CHANGE your FOOD-PRINT?
MY POINT Most people are not going to Bike to work or become Vegan, so the C02 will rise But, we can Become RESILENT in what we SOW, and change our Ways
How to have less of a FOOTPRINT on Earth? 1. Walk and Bike more 2. Change your Diet a little 3. Scale down Energy Use 4. Be SOS – School of Sustainability @ NMSU
THANK YOU SOS Sustainability Council meets first Tuesday 8:30 – 9:30AM in Milton Room 85 http://greening.nmsu.edu has Sustainability Minors for Undergrads and Grads