Sustainability At Viterbo

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Sustainability At Viterbo
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Business Investment in Sustainability

• Businesses are investing heavily.
• 92 of companies addressing issues of
  sustainability (MIT, 2009).
• In 2010, U.S. companies spent approximately 28
  billion on sustainability (Verdandix, 2010). 
• Investment expected to rise to 60 billion by
  2014. 
• Sustainable business jobs experienced a 19
  growth (MIT, 2009).
• Benefits of Sustainability (Aberdeen Research
  Group, 2009 Blackburn, 2008 MIT, 2009)
• Increased market share
• Enter new markets
• Increased revenue
• Reputation
• Customer retention - 16 increase
• Enhance competitiveness
• Innovation
• Increased productivity
• Identify inefficiencies and drive down operating
  costs - 6 reduction in energy costs
• Access to capital (lender and investor appeal)
• Reduced legal liability/risk

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Nation-wide Educational Investments

• Colleges created more than 100 majors, minors,
  and certificates in energy and sustainability-rela
  ted programs in 2009 (US News College Campus,
  2009)
• Obama administration projects that careers in the
  energy and environmental sector will grow 52
  between 2000 and 2016, while other occupations
  will see only a 14 growth (Campus Explorer,
  2010).
• Students more conscious of how humans are
  affecting the planet, and as green technology
  continues to grow, there will be countless
  opportunities for college graduates to make a
  living protecting the Earth (Careers and
  Colleges, 2011).
• Students want to look at the world's problems
  from scientific, social, and economic
  perspectives
• Students have more time to transform
  sustainability majors into a launching pad for
  almost any area of employment.
• More employers are looking for workers who can
  apply themselves in all sorts of different ways.
• If a college isn't green, some students choose a
  greener school.
• Princeton Review of 10,300 college applicants63
  stated a college's commitment to the environment
  could affect their decision to attend. (Princeton
  Review, 2010)

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Presentation Today

• Viterbos New Majors
• Sustainable Management Tom Knothe
• Environmental Sustainability Sister Lucy
  Slinger
• Viterbos community Sustainability Initiative
  Review

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Sustainability

• Meeting the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs. Bruntland
  Commission (1987)
• Sustainability is a conceptual philosophy, a
  management paradigm, a strategy, a process, and
  an end goal. As such, it is a discipline in its
  own right.
• Conceptually, it is defined as comprising three
  pillars environment, society, and economy.

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Sustainable Management

• Balanced scorecard
• Business ethics and CSR
• Longer term
• Lean thinking
• Economic value added
• Value investing
• Quadruple Bottom Line

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Business Examples

• Real Estate
• Corporate Earnings
• Value of the Dollar
• Debt Financing
• Health Care Social Security

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Dahl Schools New Program

• Core Curriculum
• Professional Core
• Business Courses
• Sustainability Courses
• www.viterbo.edu/sustainablemanagement

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Jobs

• DOLs bright outlook list
• Sustainablejobs.com
• Monster.com
• Good paying too!

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Jobs

• Managers (products, services and people)
• Corporate sustainability officers
• Government agency managers
• Non-profit directors
• Production managers - logistics
• Sustainability coordinators
• Sustainability directors
• Make a good livinglive a good life

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Sustainability Majors
Community Change Agents
Nature Balance Restorers
Emphasis
BS
BA
Degree
Ecological experts Conservationists Consultant Eco
logical educator
social dynamics of change political
dynamics of change psychological dynamics of
change legal dynamics of change

• Solid foundation in the issues, polices, and
  skills needed for civilized humans to live in
  harmony with and preserve the natural
  environment.
• Features a required internship or research
  experience tailored to the students interest.
• Allows students to pursue a minor or tailor their
  course work based on career interest.
• Prepares students for a variety of careers and
  graduate studies in a variety of areas.

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Why Now at Viterbo?
Care for Creation A Franciscan Spirituality of
the Earth by Delio, Warner Wood
Contemplation Hospitality Integrity Service S
tewardship
Last Child in the Woods Saving our Children
from Nature Deficit-Disorder - Richard Louv
Toward A Spirituality for Global Justice A Call
to Kinship Elaine Prevallet
True Cost of Low Prices The Violence of
Globalization Vincent Gallagher
Blessed Unrest How the largest Movement in the
World Came into being and Why No One Saw It
Coming Paul Hawken
Cradle-to-Cradle Remaking the Way we Make
Things W. Mc Donough M Braungart
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Local Situation
La Crosse City County - Natural Step Program
Endorsement
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration -
commitment
Natural Environment Uniqueness Driftless
WTCs new Sustainability associate degree

• Collaborative efforts with
• Other educational institutions
• Businesses
• Nonprofits
• Private
• Many others organizations with environmental
  concerns emphasis.

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"We cannot simply do what we want with this Earth
of ours, with what has been entrusted to us.
Pope Benedict XVI
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"We must respect the interior laws of creation,
of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them
if we want to survive. Pope Benedict XVI
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"This obedience to the voice of the Earth is
more important for our future happiness ... than
the desires of the moment. Our Earth is talking
to us and we must listen to it and decipher its
message if we want to survive.
Pope Benedict XVI- Jul 26, 2007
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Land Ethic ( A Sand County Almanac, 1949)
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of
the community to include soils, waters, plants,
and animals, or collectively, the land. This
sounds simply do we not already sing our love
for and obligation to the land of the free and
the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and
whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we
are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly
not the waters, which we assume have no function
except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry
off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which
we exterminate whole communities without batting
an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we
have already exterminated many of the largest
and most beautiful species. A land ethic of
course cannot prevent the alternation,
management, and use of these resources. but it
does affirm their right to continue to
existence, and, at least in spots, their
continued existence in a natural state. In
short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo
sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to
plain member and citizen of it. It implies
respect for his fellow-members, and also respect
for the community as such. Aldo Leopold

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Implementing A Land Ethic Advise Examine each
question in terms of what is ethically and
aesthetically right, as well as what is
economically expedient. A thing is right when
it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and
beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when
it tends to do otherwise. Aldo Leopold (Sand
County Almanac )