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Welcome!

Green Bag LunchJanuary 14, 2015

Jeremy BeanJeremy.Bean@psu.edu

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

& ToolsAdapted 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

& ToolsAdapted from Hitchcock & Willard

“Sustainability is the simultaneous pursuit of human health and happiness, environmental

quality, and economic well-being for current and future generations.”

Penn State graduates more than 20,000 students annually.

Let’s develop leaders.

You@PSU

Institutional Strategies & Goals- Promoting Our Health -

Mont Alto Goal“Encourage communal activities … ”

Individual GoalWork with some of the occupational or physical therapy students

to promote movement for sedentary professions.

Individual GoalWork with some of the occupational or physical therapy students

to promote movement for sedentary professions.

Individual SMART GoalCollaborate 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 2015-16. 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

Jeremy BeanJeremy.Bean@psu.edu

Questions?Please type your questions into the chat box.

sustainability.psu.edu/greenteams

Resources• Videos• Presentations• You@PSU

worksheets• Guides

Thank you for attending!

2014 – 2015 Green Bag Lunch SeriesUpcoming 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?