{"id":2750,"date":"2013-12-28T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:26:20","slug":"sustainable-cities-and-the-greater-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/sustainable-cities-and-the-greater-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Cities: Caring for the Greater Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Sustainable Cities” is the topic to being the upcoming Open Working Group 7 on SDG’s,<\/a>\u00a0Jan 6-10 2014, in\u00a0the UN’s marathon effort to decide “what we should do with the earth”. \u00a0 Our cities, as brilliant as places of creativity as they are, find themselves “in a fishy stream…” \u00a0<\/em>See also the final World SDG<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0proposal on\u00a0the global application of the general principle, that\u00a0we all are r<\/strong>esponsible for our shares of the abuses of the economy as a whole<\/strong><\/span> …<\/strong> in proportion to our owning, investing in and using it<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The World SDG<\/a><\/strong> uses a method of calculation for any person’s or business’s share of world GDP, for estimating their total share of \u00a0responsibility for world economic impacts as “users<\/strong>” called “Scope-4 Accounting<\/a><\/strong>“. \u00a0<\/em>The legal view of responsibility<\/span><\/strong> is different from “cause and effect”<\/strong><\/span> in that, legally, both the people paying for, benefiting from or authorizing a tort harm may all be held as equally responsible as the person actually doing the harm, as familiar for hiring others to commit a crime.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fishing in a fishy stream…<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cSustainable Cities\u201d started with Caring for our Cities as Commons
\n<\/b>Neglecting The upstream burden of their wealth and the World as Their Greater Commons<\/b><\/h4>\n

Statement:<\/p>\n

A scientifically better way to measure the true scale of economic footprints is as fractions of the whole.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy and accurate for scale, treating fractions of world GDP as shares of world resource use and impacts too(1)<\/sup>.\u00a0 Cities thrive as hubs of creativity and growing concentrations of wealth, cells within a greater whole. Without self-restraint, growing parts can become cancers on the whole, profiting by conquering others, not by caring for their world.\u00a0 A city\u2019s limit is then exhausting their world, as done by ancient Rome, the Mayans and others.<\/p>\n

New York City with ~1\/10th of one percent of the world\u2019s population has a $1,350 billion\/yr GDP, ~2% share of world GDP, so causing ~2% of world economic resource demands and impacts, with its plan for real repeated doubling of all three. Wealth earned on New York\u2019s 13 sq mi uses the products of ~380,000 mi2 of farm land around the world, ~2% of the world\u2019s, with resource pressure causing ~2% of the world\u2019s 1,460 mi2 of deforestation. Its services produce~2% of the world\u2019s CO2, ~141,750 million lbs\/yr, ~170,000 lbs. per NYC resident.<\/p>\n

The question is, what would make New York and other cities turn from consuming to caring for the world they generate their wealth from(2)<\/sup>?\u00a0\u00a0 Now each World Capital, as islands of high GDP, is growing its impacts on the world by growing amounts each year, as if as innocently as living by a lazy stream grabbing floating bags of money going by now and then.. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jessie Henshaw<\/p>\n

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Jessie is an environmental and human systems scientist quite familiar with defining units of measure. She\u2019s been doing advanced research on emergent organization in nature and economic systems for over 30 years. The scientific basis for this measurement method is a peer reviewed research paper<\/p>\n

1)\u201cGetting the incentives right requires redefining the units of measure<\/a>\u201d.
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2) \u201cIdeal Model: Steering money to what matters<\/a>\u201d
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“Sustainable Cities” is the topic to being the upcoming Open Working Group 7 on SDG’s,\u00a0Jan 6-10 2014, in\u00a0the UN’s marathon effort to decide “what we should do with the earth”. \u00a0 Our cities, as brilliant as places of creativity as they are, find themselves “in a fishy stream…” \u00a0See also the final World SDG\u00a0proposal on\u00a0the … Continue reading Sustainable Cities: Caring for the Greater Commons<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,8,9,11,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-mail","category-econn","category-theory","category-policy","category-research","category-trans","category-whattodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}