The Path to Net Positive: Principles, Practical Models and Progress to Date

1. The Path to Net Positive: Principles, Practical Models and
Progress to Date
Bill Baue, Sustainability Context Group @Bbaue
Zoe Le Grand, Forum for the Future @zlegrand
Ralph Thurm, A Leader’s Guide to ThriveAbility @aheadahead1
Claudine Blamey, The Crown Estate @ClaudineBlamey
Greg Norris, Harvard School of Public Health
Asheen Phansey, Dassault Systemes
John Pflueger, Dell

2. IS TRUE NET
POSITIVE TRULY
POSSIBLE
Greg Norris, Chief Scientist
Co-Director, SHINE

3. SUSTAINABILITY
Shrink your footprint
Flickr: chuddlesworth

4. ENERGY WATER
CLIMATE HEALTH
But Every Product Has Many
Footprints
B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) Flickr: Carvalho;Lourenco

5. The planet would be better off
without me?

6. To be NetPositive, we need
to Give more than we Take

7. WHAT DO WE TAKE?
Person: What is required to sustain you
Organization: What is required to enable you to offer what
you offer to the world
Product: What is required to offer it to the world

8. WHAT DO WE GIVE?

9. INTRODUCING HANDPRINTS
Handprints are positive impacts we cause to
happen relative to “business as usual”

10. 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
• Footprinting: Shared Responsibility
• Handprinting: Shared Credit

13. GAGE, 6 MONTHS IN
“By the way… we can’t, like,
really be Net Positive, right?”

14. Recent Net Positive Virtual Dialog
“You can’t really be NetPositive. If you give here,
you’re really just taking from somewhere else. It’s the
First Law. You can’t create water, matter, or energy.”

16. YOU CAN BE A TREE

17. YOU CAN BE RAIN

18. THE RESOURCE WE DRAW ON
“Waste” in its most general sense:
Missed opportunity, regret, loss, lack of care.
Creativity and Care harvest this resource.
When we run out of “Waste” it will no longer matter.