Center for Health and the Global Environment

Re-envisioning Health June 15, 2016 Siena, IT

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

JACK SPENGLER YAMAGUCHI PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

AND HUMAN HABITATION DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND THE

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Jack_Spengler@Harvard.edu

www.CHGEharvard.org

The mission of the Center:

Research Evidence

Engaging the Practice

Improve Health of People. Places and Planet

Center Retreat and Catlin’s Solar Cooker

Eight Corporate Council Members

Reframing Health and Sustainable Development

Measuring material and energy flows and Reducing Environmental Footprint

Current Thinking

Measuring Up to our Common Future

Rethinking Sustainability

S = f(M H N )s*k • Materials (manufacture capital)

• Human Capital (well-being)

• Natural Capital (eco-services +)

• Social (Integrity of Institutional structures)

• Knowledge (capacity to innovate)

ECON

SOCIETY ENVR

After Prof Bill Clark, KSG

Core stocks of assets for sustainability: Manufactured, natural, human, social, knowledge

• Manufactured capital (Materials) – Housing stock, electrical generating capacity, transport net…

• Natural capital – Biodiversity, soil quantity & quality, land cover

– Capacity to fix energy from sun, shield UV, regulate climate

• Human capital – Population size and distribution; its health and education

• Social capital (s) – Values, norms, laws, institutions… and trust in them

• Knowledge capital(k) – “Social” knowledge in books, patents, culture;

– Capacity to innovate After Prof. Bill Clark, KSG

How new concepts shape CHGE’s Programs:

• Manufactured capital (Materials) – Health and the Built Environment, Energy and Health

• Natural capital – Health and Nature, Sustainable Tourism and Food

• Human capital – SHINE---Net Positive Corporations, Ex Ed and Courses

• Social capital (s) – Alternative Operating Systems for Organizations, Impact

Investing

• Knowledge capital(k) – Innovation Eco Systems

Sustainable Development is Health

Inclusive Human Well-being, (ie. well-being across and within generations that doesn’t decline)

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Health Benefits of Low Carbon Energy Policy August 2015

Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Standards for Existing Power Plants May 2015

Jonathan Buonocore Program Leader, Climate, Energy & Health

ENERGY WATER

CLIMATE HEALTH

But Every Product Has Many

Footprints

B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) Flickr: Carvalho;Lourenco

ENERGY WATER

CLIMATE HEALTH

But Some Product Have

Benefits

B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) Flickr: Carvalho;Lourenco

Assessing impacts and benefits of a pension fund portfolio holdings

The Vision of a Net Positive Perspective for Sustainability

• 1 billion international landings now

• 1.8 billion by 2030

• Domestic travel 4 times this number

• Asian market ~ 500 million

Tourism is 10% of the World Economy

Health and Well-being: A Business Imperative

The Cornerstone April 2016

Journal of Sustainable Finance and Banking

Enhanced Analytics

Well-Being Is Taking Business for a Run By Eileen McNeely, RN, C., M.S., PhD, Co-Director, SHINE, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The business case for well-being translates into avoiding reputational risks and ensuring that legal and regulatory requirements are met.

We effectively skip over all the “good things” that human well-being generates, like mastery, autonomy, purpose, good health, safety, security, trust, and belonging.

Positive Human Opportunities

Responsibility Opportunities

Positive Environmental Opportunities

Human Responsibility Opportunities

Injury/ Illness

Well-Being

-

+ Health

Promotion Work-Life

Experiences

This Impact AND That Impact

Amabile & Kramer 2011; Deci & Ryan 1992, etc.

Opportunities build & sustain engagement

Promoting Flourishing Sustained Action

Progress on Meaningful Work

Business success vs. failure

← Motivated, Committed, Creative,

Collaborative workforce

← Strong “inner work life”

Positive emotions

Strong internal (intrinsic) motivation

Favorable towards colleagues and work

← Empowered to succeed at meaningful work

Handprints AND Footprints Your footprint remains in the limelight and shares it with your

handprint

The Net Positive Project

To be Net-Positive, we need

to Give more than we Take

Harm Reduction AND Benefit Creation

Handprints Defined Handprints are positive impacts

we cause to happen

relative to “business as usual.”

Handprints are defined

in relation to Footprints, so that:

[Handprint > Footprint] NetPositive

• Built on LCA using the same metrics

as Footprints

• Same Impact Dimensions: Supply

Chains and Life Cycles

3 ways to create

Handprints

Step 1: Reduce your own footprint:

Improve worker health and well-being in your own operations

Reduce risks, Improve working conditions, worker health and

well-being in supply chains

Humanity's

Footprint

We’ve constrained

The good we can do

by the harm we’re now causing

Your footprint

Step 2: Help anyone/everyone else

reduce their footprint Promote adoption of practices and innovations that

Improve worker health and well-being and Reduce risks

to other operations outside your footprint

Engage customers and others in more effective use of goods and

services to increase health and well-being

Grow demand for / increase assess to

NetPositive goods and services

Step 3: Think outside the foot!

Take generative actions:

Increase well-being beyond “normal”

(beyond reduction in disability or “quality deficit”)

Promote human development and thriving

Generate public good spill-overs

HANDPRINTING EXAMPLES

Innovating around an Existing Product

Innovating Existing Product (demand unchanged)

Shifting Demand (product performance unchanged)

Innovating in ways that also change demand

Catalyzing Systemic Handprints We’ve come to realize that

“Just doing our own bit” won’t cut it.

I can check and properly inflate my tires.

This will reduce my carbon footprint by 1%.

Scale by 100 Get 5 friends to join me with gauges and

pumps at a supermarket parking lot one

afternoon.

Scale by… 1000? Hand the lucky drivers a card about handprinting,

encouraging them to do their own “pump day.”

Scale by a mind-boggling amount If Handprinter.org has a crowd-sourced, crowd-

assessed database of action ideas, and humanity is

striving for NetPositive.

Design for Ripple Effects Harness the abundance you create

to create more abundance.

Use 9 months savings from 1

donated blanket to: Buy and give 2 more blankets.

Support a school activity.

Free Download on LPC

Website

Detailed explanation of

Handprinting Imperatives

Case Studies

Updates / expansions

BUREO SKATEBOARDS | BOARD + SHADES

LIVING PRODUCT PILOT

HANDPRINTING EXAMPLE

New Product, Start-up

Photo Courtesy Gridam..com

Humans dump 8

MILLION tons of

plastic in the

ocean each

year.

Fishing nets =

10% of that

waste News.NationalGeographic.com

Photo Courtesy of Flickr user Marc Lagneau

EVERY

BOARD ≈ 300 FT OF

FISH NETS

49,620sf

recycled so far

Two Handprinting

Actions:

100% Recycled Content

Energy Efficient Manufacturing

Municipality of Laje, Bahia, Brazil Context: Marginal Cassava Farming

Project Opportunity

Biopolymer film based on Cassava Starch

Engage:

Strengthen Cooperative engaged with farmers

Create Shared Value:

Introduce Stable Market, Stable Prices, for starch

Introduce local production of

Starch, and Biopolymer from starch

Context for a Biopolymer: High Social Risks in Cassava Farming in Brazil

Socialtheme Levelofriskfrom

SocialHotspotsDatabase,

inCassavaprod.

Childlabor VeryHigh

Forcedlabor High

Sanitation Medium

Non-FatalInjuries High

Fatalinjuries VeryHigh

Wagebeinglowerthancountry's

non-povertyguidelines

VeryHigh

Wagebeinglowerthancountry

minimumwage:low

VeryHigh

Wagebeinglowerthan$2/day Medium

Five Responses to an Initial Assessment of Social Risks

Collect actual data from Hot Spots

Audit

“Cut and Run”

Engage

Create Shared Value

Actual Risks in Cassava Farming in Laje with Operation of Healthy Cooperative

Positive Impacts

300,000 worker-hours per year

200 Families

5-10% of total cradle-to-gate risk-hours impacted

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Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Chan School

SHINE & ILFI have jointly released the

Handprint Calculator

Free, Web-based; downloadable available

Upload/enter pieces, explore/see the whole

Interactive, what-if, sensitivity/uncertainty

Compare handprints of multiple innovations

Bring Handprinting to life, for yourself and others