The Global ERA of Sustainability
TEDx Ecole Polytechnique
Ecole Polytechnique — Paris — Palaiseau, France
February 24, 2016
La Rupture
“The Global ERA of Sustainability”
Marc Buckley
https://youtu.be/-eOBoYIrFGs
Earthrise
December 24th, 1968
We went to the Moon and Discovered Earth.
The Earth seen for the first time as Nature Intended it without Borders, nations, countries but as one living planet.
This was the Identifying Picture of the Earth Catalog
Global Thinking and Action began to emerge:
1970 Comprehensive Clean Air Act
Earth Day was Born
The Environmental Protection Agency was Founded
1971 Doctors without Borders
Clean Water Act
Endangered Species Act
1972 DDT insecticide was Banned by the EPA
1973 Catalytic Converter Invented
America Still at War
Campus Unrest and Protests
Unleaded Gas is created
Humanity began reacting to this new Global perspective!
The computing power and technology we used to get to us to the Moon was less than that of the Smart Phones many of us now carry around.
Important to note — This was a Space Race which began from FEAR that the Soviets would gain high ground with the Sputnik Rocket.
I am extremely optimistic and believe we are Prepared to Evolve and Adapt.
Let me tell you why I think so: 2015 was a Pivotal year for the entire Earth!
There were Extreme Conditions worldwide:
The Hottest Months on Record
Polar Caps Melting
Major Flooding
Extreme Drought
I guess Climate Reality and Al Gore are not so CRAZY after all!
Leonardo Di Caprio addresses the UN and Donates 15 Million Dollars for Climate causes
32 Million Climate Refugees were displaced or affected by conflict.
The World Expo was in Milan, Italy — 184 Days — with the theme Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life!
On November 29th — BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY COALITION was founded to Accelerate Progress towards Clean Energy — more than 20 Billionaires including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg
November 30 COP#21 Conference of the Parties in Paris finally agreed coming together with a clear Roadmap for the future of Climate change
November — VolksWagen Caught 11 million affected vehicles cheated on emissions
NASA Receives $19.3 Billion Dollars in a Final 2016 Budget
Privatization is the New Space Race:
Virgin Galactic — Sir Richard Branson
SpaceX — Elon Musk
Blue Origin — Jeff Bezos
And to bring us full circle NASA’s NEW Earthrise Image taken by the Lunar Orbiter — December 2015
What does this mean?
We are entering into a new race; for our home, our earth, and the future of Humanity.
The Global ERA of Sustainability
What are we racing against?
We have researched and taken a global view of a what we believe to be a fundamental problem affecting us now and the quality of life on earth in the future. It is Climate Change and all the many facets that are compounding this problem. Energy, Resources, Health, and Waste are all parts contributing to the whole of this issue.
We have removed the blinders and are addressing 6 Global Grand Challenges as a complete system together. Energy, Food, Environment, Health, Water, and Disaster Resilience to be exact.
We looked at the earth as a whole and asked the question where are the largest impacts to climate change coming from? The answer is that there are many factors and industries that affect, create, and contribute to the problem BUT, the data, and analysis show that the Food and Beverage Industry is and will continue to be the major negative contributor in all facets, if the industry does not change to a complete renewable and sustainable system NOW!
KPMG released a worldwide report in 2015 that the Food and Beverage industry has the largest imbalance and impact on our Climate with an EBITDA of 89 Billion Dollars and with a total environmental cost as percentage of EBITDA at 224%.
As Peter Diamandis has said many times,“the world’s biggest problems are also the world’s biggest business opportunities“.
We are well aware of the opportunities and potential profits but are truly focused on Global Solutions for a better future.
This is where we are at Now!
The Global ERA of Sustainability
We have passed through the 1st and Second but are stuck in the Industrial Age. Please take note of the S-Curve which is only half of this journey.
A New Paradigm & Collaboration for our existence.
The Gaussian Curve
Ideas, Inventions, Change Agents, Paradigm shift, Creation
Applicable to everything
iPhone, Google Glasses, Solar, Electric Cars, Wind, Laws, Freedoms, Rights, Mythology, and Beliefs.
Exponential Growth
Doubles over Time, Technology gets faster, shrinks, and becomes more powerful. Many things can double with exponential growth, not just Innovation and Technology.
We are not applying our Exponential Innovation and Technology fast enough and are not keeping up in its application for good. Specifically, the Food and Beverage Industry is still stuck in the Industrial Age.
The Global aim is to bring Human Power together to match the exponential growth of Technology and Innovation.
How does it work with the innovation cycle?
The positive half of the Gaussian Curve the S-Curve is that which we want to focus on in order to Evolve, Adapt, and Positively apply.
We have a passion for our planet and Humanity that is why Jointly we have created a complete system that turns the Food and Drink Production Industry on its head by bringing the entire globe up to speed with the sweet spot of current and exponentially growing technologies.
This is a complete system for Climate, Renewable Energy, Resources, Sustainability, Recycling, Power and Waste plant processing that is CO2 Neutral and has an Energy balance of NetZero.
This is done using innovative technology, applying technology, vertical farming, full automation, robotics, cradle to cradle, circular economy.
The entire system is duplicable, scalable, open source, transparent, sustainable, renewable generation, renewable storage/back-up, complete power, and waste recycling, creating a sustainable infrastructure –the future of production for a Global Era of Sustainability.
We have followed because of Trust and many other reasons but now it is time to come together and get involved in contributing to a better future.
New Consciousness that sees the World as a Single Organism — A World at War with itself is Doomed! We are One Planet! Carl Sagen
Global Coming together — Overview Effect
Act as one Species with one Destiny
A Common Worldview of Who We Are
Who speaks for the Human Species?
Who Speaks for Earth?
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it. Alan Kay
Be Ashamed to Die until you have scored some Victory for Humanity. Horace Mann
The Race towards a Global Sustainable Future has begun.
Billions of Early Adapters are Needed for The Global ERA of Sustainability
