Sustainable Building Advisor
Essay # 2
How green building programs and policies can further promote the Three E’s of Sustainability
SBA Training Program
Homayoun Arbabian, June 3th, 2013 Now a day the phrases Green and Sustainability have been considered in various fields and disciplines. Project Management in the context of sustainability is an example. In this essay I try to focus on the Three Es in both sustainability and Project Management to see how green policies can affect the Es improvement. The three Es consist of: Environment, Economy and Equity/Social. In fact these are the three areas of Sustainability. These areas, that is also called “the triple bottom line”, was first used in 1994 by John Elkington, the founder of a British consultancy called SustainAbility1, have a direct and indirect interconnections to each other. The common area of the three is sustainable development. We can say, sustainability is a balance of the three Es. For more detail is good to refer to some examples and areas of each E2. For the Environment, we would consider; Acres of designated open space, Per capita greenhouse gas emissions, Per capita solid waste generation/recycling, or the portion of buildings that are LEEDS certified, as examples. For the Economy issues like: Economic diversity and Jobs/housing balance are the case. Finally the Equity/Pople: would look at: Voter participation, Affordable housing development, School graduation rates, or Access to public transit. There is a similar view in Project Management that is called Five Ps3. John Elkington argument was
that companies should be leveraging three separate bottom lines. One is the traditional measure of corporate profit, the profit and loss account. The second is the bottom line of a company's “people” or “social” account” which is a measure of how socially responsible an organization’ operations are. The third is the bottom line of the company's “planet” account—a measure of how environmentally impactful they are. The triple
How green building programs and policies can further promote the Three E’s of Sustainability
SBA Training Program
Homayoun Arbabian, June 3th, 2013 Now a day the phrases Green and Sustainability have been considered in various fields and disciplines. Project Management in the context of sustainability is an example. In this essay I try to focus on the Three Es in both sustainability and Project Management to see how green policies can affect the Es improvement. The three Es consist of: Environment, Economy and Equity/Social. In fact these are the three areas of Sustainability. These areas, that is also called “the triple bottom line”, was first used in 1994 by John Elkington, the founder of a British consultancy called SustainAbility1, have a direct and indirect interconnections to each other. The common area of the three is sustainable development. We can say, sustainability is a balance of the three Es. For more detail is good to refer to some examples and areas of each E2. For the Environment, we would consider; Acres of designated open space, Per capita greenhouse gas emissions, Per capita solid waste generation/recycling, or the portion of buildings that are LEEDS certified, as examples. For the Economy issues like: Economic diversity and Jobs/housing balance are the case. Finally the Equity/Pople: would look at: Voter participation, Affordable housing development, School graduation rates, or Access to public transit. There is a similar view in Project Management that is called Five Ps3. John Elkington argument was
that companies should be leveraging three separate bottom lines. One is the traditional measure of corporate profit, the profit and loss account. The second is the bottom line of a company's “people” or “social” account” which is a measure of how socially responsible an organization’ operations are. The third is the bottom line of the company's “planet” account—a measure of how environmentally impactful they are. The triple