Sustainability

Susan McFaddin, PhD, LEED-AP, CEM

Economics –

the study of the allocation of scarce resources to unlimited wants.

Externalities –

benefits and costs that you don’t pay for

Sustainability

Sustainability meets the needs ofthe present withoutcompromising theability of futuregenerations to meettheir own needs.

UN Brundtsland Commission 1987

Pacific Gyre

From: Green to Gold by Dan Esty and Andrew Winston

Conventional vs UFAD

Employer Costs

Rules of Thumb

$1 – Energy

$10 - Rent

$100 - Salaries

West Bend Mutual Insurance Company(West Bend, WI)

Average Worker Executive

Salary   $ 60,000 $ 120,000

Benefits 30% $ 18,000 $ 36,000

Total Cost $ 78,000 $ 156,000

Square Feet per employee 250 400

Employee Cost/ Sq ft $ 312.00 $ 390.00

15% Increase in Productivity $ 46.80 $ 58.50

5% Increase in Productivity $ 15.60 $ 19.50

Lawrence-Berkley Study

Absenteeism and Recruiting are also improved

Adobe Towers LEED-EB

Energy Efficiency Measure Capital Cost

Annual Energy Savings

Payback Period ROI

Motion Sensors for HVAC in all Conference Rooms $37,500 310,438 kBtu 8 months 140%

Reprogrammed Garage Lighting $55,267 76,713 kBtu 11 months 115%

Installed VFD on Chiller $65,000 87,265 kBtu 7 months 163%

Surge Protectors and Motion Sensors for each Office $104,750 148,498 kBtu 5 months 253%

Retrofitted Garage Lighting $157,775 312,254 kBtu 10 months 118%

Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life.

Earth Charter 2000

We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We are borrowing her from our children.

Seneca Nations