ESD Building Impacts

environmental sustainable design
1-03 building impacts

Building impacts
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Building impacts
Mcmansions
162.2m 2 1984
227m 2 2003
243m 2 2010.
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Building impacts
Global impacts
30% of global emissions and
40% of all energy consumption.
• Significant Potential
• Targets not possible
• Technology already exists
• Existing exemplars
• Additional employment
• Poor buildings last decades.
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Building impacts
Greenhouse Effect
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Building impacts
Global Temperature
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Building impacts
Australian Temperature
• + 1 o C Since 1910
• Extreme Heat events increased
• Fire season longer
• -19% Rainfall Southwest Australia
• -11% Rainfall in Southeast
• Increased Rainfall N.T;
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Building impacts
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Building impacts
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Global Impacts
1962 Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
1972 The club of Rome:
The Limits to Growth
2006 Dr. Tim Flannery
The Weather Makers
2011 Jared Diamond:
Collapse
Film culture
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Global Issues
Ocean Acidification
- Oceans have absorbed 25% of Global CO2 emissions
- 0.1 pH Increase in acidity.
- Modelled to quadruple by 2100
- 30% increase since 1800
- Results in…
- Reduction in shellfish
- Mass coral bleaching events
"Ocean acidification is irreversible on timescales of at least tens
of thousands of years, and substantial damage to ocean
ecosystems can only be avoided by urgent and rapid reductions
in global emissions of CO2. Attention must be given for
integration of this critical issue at the global climate change
debate in Copenhagen,"
Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, UN Scientist
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Global Impacts
Coral bleaching
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Global Impacts
Permafrost thawing
300 Billion tonnes of C0 2
released by 2100
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Global Impacts
Glacier Loss
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Global Impacts
Sea Level Increases
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet
• Greenland Glacier Loss.
“it’s a cork in a bottle”
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Global Impacts
Storm Intensity
• Hurricane Katrina (2005)
• Hurricane Wilma (2005)
• Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Katrina: damage $108 Billion
Wilma damage: $25 Billion
Sandy: damage $75 Billion
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Global Impacts
Wider Virus Distribution
• Dengue fever cases hit 20-year high in Australia.
• Explosion of Ross River virus prompts
mosquito warning for Victoria.
• Hundreds of Victorians have been diagnosed with Ross River virus after heavy rains
probably caused mosquito populations to surge, Victoria's Chief Health Officer says.
• The Age JANUARY 4 2017
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Global Impacts
Plant + Animal Species Loss
World's Wood Harvest 25% used for Building
boycott palm oil products
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in the news – when you look for it.
• 'Extraordinary' levels of pollutants found in 10km deep
Mariana trench.
• Presence of manmade chemicals in most remote place on planet shows
nowhere is safe from human impact, say scientists
• Act now before entire species are lost to global
warming, say scientists.
• Climate change is threatening about 700 endangered species and
policymakers must act urgently to lessen impact.
• Environmentalists warn of bumblebee's extinction after
Trump halts regulations.
• Order for 60-day pause on regulations not yet implemented includes
protection for endangered rusty patched bumblebee, which experts say is
near extinction.
• Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than
natural forces.
• Researchers behind ‘Anthropocene equation’ say impact of people’s
intense activity on Earth far exceeds that of natural events spread across
millennia.
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Global Impacts
• Hard facts unmask the fiction behind Coalition's 'coal
comeback'.
• There’s a long list of blame and shame for Australia’s threadbare climate and
energy policy, but Turnbull’s party takes the cake
• EU must shut all coal plants by 2030 to meet Paris
climate pledges, study says.
• Europe will vastly overshoot its carbon emissions target for coal unless it
closes all 300 power stations, says thinktank Climate Analytics.
• Fossil fuel divestment is worth $7tn globally yet
Australia still clings to coal.
• While the Australian government lags behind on climate change action,
consumers, local councils and energy companies lead the way to clean
energy.
• Carmichael mine jobs need '21 times the subsidies' of
renewables, says lobby group.
• Federal funding for Adani project amounts to $683,060 a job, compared with
$32,191 a worker in Queensland’s clean energy sector, 350.org says.
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Global Impacts
• We may be closer than we thought to dangerous climate
thresholds.
• A new study identifies an extra 0.1°C of human-caused warmin.
• Barnaby Joyce won't rule out dumping Renewable
Energy Target.
• Deputy prime minister criticises ‘romantic’ targets set by states as some
Coalition MPs call to ditch RET if US pulls out of Paris climate deal.
• We’re now breaking global temperature records once
every three years.
• Denial and “alternative facts” haven’t stopped the Earth from warming to
record-shattering levels.
• We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be
gone in 100 years.
• At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a
century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor
nations are helped to preserve them.
The conversation
The guardian
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Civilisation is finite
Jarrod Diamond
Why civilizations collapse..
● irreversible environmental impact of supporting
resources
● climate chage
● friendly societal support
● hostile societal strength
● endemic society and cultural attitudes
those that do not learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.

09.global sustainability
Remember, your apathy is the best
way to perpetuate the status quo.
why we’re stuff(ed)!

Global impacts
global warming
please also consider viewing
(these are only trailers)
• an inconvenient truth -al gore
• the 11th hour -leonardo di caprio
• koyaanisqatsi -francis ford coppola

Global Impacts
-divestment
-decarbonise
565 Gt
2,795 Gt
Zero tomorrow =0.6 o rise
Australian coal, oil and gas companies receive $4b a year in subsidies.
ABC News 2014
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