Sustainable Development

      A part of a low carbon knowledge economy
Previous generations have used much of the earths resources
Is it okay to pollute china to get cheap goods? no because the economy is going down and we need to get this economy sustainable

 "Sustainability is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are doing it. Those that are doing it are doing it badly."

Available at: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/andrew-maynard-on-sustainable-design.html .

• 9 billion people are occupying this planet. Joel Cohen claimed that in 1995 we needed 4 planets for a good lifestyle for all, but as I'm righting this it is 2014.
• 10% of the world own 90% of the resources.
• Screens from common smart phones today are made from rich rare earth materials that are often smashed from
• Lily pond one leaf grows per day per lily (concept of exponential growth).
• Many minerals from the periodic table will soon become extinct.

Many argue that 1st century industrial revolution was more sustainable than 22nd century.

• Abundance of materials.
• Low price of fuel.



http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/home.html

• Optimisation and mono-cultures.

Hewitt Packard are taking back broken down printers because they know sometime in the future the resources required to make printers in the future will be unavailable or too expensive. 

What we can do

• As professional engineers we have an explicit responsbility to design sustainable technology solutions.
• Global Green economy is worth $1.3 trillion (1,300,000,000).

      We have an obligation to come up with new ideas to save the global resources. 

For conferences why can we not use video streaming for meetings?

Earth Summits

United Nations Conferences (Margret Thatcher. 1990).

• Virtually every week we lose multiple different species and gaming is used to simulate the lose of species.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/09/a-study-the-temperature-rise-has-caused-the-co2-increase-not-the-other-way-around/

      There is a clear trend between global temperature and carbon dioxide. There are unfortunately many ways that carbon dioxide is created, but one of the main ways is production of electricity. We burn many resources that produce carbon dioxide that flies into our atmosphere and destroys our ozone; to cause global warming.