Story
- The first shoe, Crisis, Conservation of Life-sources, Mind-shift from wasteful use to use that is wise and sustainable
-Rising to the claim and challenge of Humans being the wisest animal on Earth
-Law? Perhaps law, as a thinking profession, can make a little contribution to humanity’s role as the thinking part of Nature
Changing Mindset
We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place
Jump out of the Box-turn it upside down and shake it
Shifting Mindset from
THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to
ECONOMICS OF Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR)
(david Brower)
Paradigm– dominant set of assumptions, values and ideas by which society views the world (Mindset)
• NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS --DO NOT USE CAPITAL,
• ONLY INTEREST - PROPER ACCOUNTING!
Banaue rice terraces:
< 2000 years old
Restore wealth of the Earth’s Flesh -- the soils-source of or food!
Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT
Natural Resources and Environmental
Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Substantive and Procedural Rules for the Extraction and Utilization
Law? Rep Act 6957 (BOT Law), Rule 2, Sec. 2.2 (b) “rail-based projects, (c) non-rail based facilities (e.g., bike lanes, navigable waterways)
Other Economic Activities
Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment
Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature
CPR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AT WORK
SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)
Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City
(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing
Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)
Many More
• Costa Rica
• Cuba (health, sports, education)
• Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)
Ants
1. Traffic jam2. Travel on single file3. Do not take up more
space and materials than necessary
4. Do not pollute the air that they breathe while traveling to and from their places of work (source of food)
5. When they bump into each other, they do not argue, fight and sometimes kill; no road rage
6. Instead, they bow at each other
DISADVANTAGES OF CAR-BASED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
WASTE: SPACE, Square meters METALS, RUBBER,
PLASTIC, COST: CAR-FUEL-viz
rice INSURANCE,
MAINTENANCE ACCIDENTS: DEATHS,
INJURY, DAMAGE AIR POLLUTION Our insistence at
individual mobility has resulted in serious collective immobility
Waste of Water, STRESS,
LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY AND TIME WITH FAMILY
- CONCRETE-LOSS OF PERCOLATIONUNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE
- DEPLETION OF MOUNTAINS
- LOSS OF SCARCE LAND (FOR URBAN FARMING)
SOCIOLOGY
INERTIA OF COLLECTIVE INSANITY
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
JUMP OUT-TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN- SHAKE IT
PROGRESS IN HUMAN THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION
Human power
Discount
Sense of fun
Sense of community and human interaction
Sometimes words have to be a little wild…,
Law? Rep Act 6957 (BOT Law), Rule 2, Sec. 2.2 (b) “rail-based projects, (c) non-rail based facilities (e.g., bike lanes, navigable waterways)
“Our insistence at individual mobility has
resulted in serious collective immobility”;
Principle:
Those of have less in wheels must have more in roads…. Is a city made for … cars or for people?
Before the power of the combustion engine -- ___ ? Before __ Power? was
____ power
“Sometimes words have to be a little wild… because they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.”
Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment
Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature
CPR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AT WORK
SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)
Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City
(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing
Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)
Many More
• Costa Rica
• Cuba (health, sports, education)
• Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)
• Curitiba, Brazil
• Bogota, Colombia
• Borneo-rainfall, water, biological diversity
Education: Informal education: In 2002: Bantayan Island
SEA Camp
Mission: To Teach by Example and Experience
SCHOOL OF THE SEAs
Sea and Earth Advocates
Teach by Example and Experience: SHOWCASE Beauty and Bounty of the Philippine Islands, and Filipino ingenuity and artistry