Time Line Earth

The 3 Big Cataclysms

Anthropogenic

Climate Change

A Great Extinction

Life?

Great Meteor

Hit Earth

A Great Extinction

Photosynthetic life

Oxygen Enrichment

Pangea

300 Million BCE

A Great Extinction

4 Million

BCE

250-65 Million BCE

4.5 Billion BCE

500 Million BCE

3.5 Billion BCE

Humankind

600

Years Ago

12,000

Years Ago

60

Years Ago

6

Years Ago

100,000 Years Ago

4,000,000

Years

Ago

The Savannah Principle

3.4 Million BCE

more food but a mono crop which lft folks more vullnerable

World View Jump

World View Jump

The

First Humanoids

The Age

of Integration

The

Information

Age

The Industrial Age

The Age

of

Agriculture

Age of the Hunter Gatherer

The Conditions for a World View Shift:

• Climate Shift
• New Energy Source
• New Communication Technologies

How did human's survive?

nomadic low pop

The Conditions for a World View Shift:

• New Energy Source
• New Communication Technology
• Climatic Shifts

humans are not the center

Stone Age Paleolithic

Cooperation

Empathy?

Motivations?

animis,

Self-Interest?

Beginning: Anthropocene

End: Holocene

Beginning: Holocene

End: Ice Age

2005

The Conditions

• Nuclear Energy
• Computers + Internet
• Warming Planet

The Black Swan

12,000 BCE

Conclusions

Our ability to think abstractly has led to tremendous comfort and wealth for some

it has also led to great suffering for many others

It has also led to our separation from nature - but with sustainability it can lead to our reconnection

Mini - World View Jump

Relevance

Tools

3.4 Million BCE

Controlled Fire

2 Million BCE

15,000 BCE

Cave Painting

Abstract

Subject/Object

relationship with the

natural world

The First Awareness*

25,000 BCE

Pottery

Food security

70,000 BCE

Clothing

Comfort

Late

Industrial Age

The End of Holocene

The Beginning of Anthropocene

The Conditions for a World View Shift:

• New Energy Source: Fossil Fuels
• New Communication Technology
• Climatic Shifts

2010 - 2020 was the hottest decade since human's started measuring

The Conditions:

Renewable Energy

Social Media

Climate Change

2K

2017 was the hottest year ever*

Mini Conclusion

0

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

1863 CE

Early Green Design Movement

Middle Eastern Renaissance

European Renaissance

First Energy Crises

The 60's -The Seeds of Sustainability

Colonialism

Rosetta stone

US Civil War

Civil War

final transition from Agricultural Age to Industrial Age

California Drought wipes out nearly one quarter of the states $5 billion dollar Rice crop

Money

Maps

Energy

Communication

• The climate became warm and stable creating the conditions for human comfort
• The new energy source of surplus food would lead to population growth and a flourishing of culture
• Nature and its secrets were revealed through advancements in science and math
• Humanity's relationship to nature remained symbiotic but the technical and intellectual foundation was set for a dramatic rise in the power of humans to control nature

Global Ecological Movement

Pope Francis

Huston ,Texas

California Mud Slide

US Women Liberation Movement

Democracy

The Golden Ages in Middle east

The dark age in Europe

Fracking - Higher energy prices makes Fracking feasible

Christopher Columbus set sail on September 6, 1492 from Castille, Spain with three ships— the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. His expedition landed at San Salvador in the West Indies on October 12, 1492 as he discovers a “New World.”

1987- Brundtland Commission:

Sustainable Development

Energy Revolution: Hydraulics

Water wheels & Wind mills -

1868 CE

1993 Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken published - a resolution of forces - the beginning of a great change in business philosophy

US Civil rights Movement and Acts

1862 CE

1776 CE

Ludlow Massacre

1913 CE

1969 CE

"Corporation are people"

14th Amendment

Great Mistake #3

1929 The Great Depression

3200

BCE

Bronze Age

Survival of the fittest

Great Mistake #2

Henry Ford

assembly line

Fertile Crescent

The cradle of the Civilization

Steam engine/ Rail road

"The wealth of Nations

Economist

Great Mistake #1

Dozens of men, women and children killed during a coal miners strike

1991 CE

2005 CE

Green Building continues to rise

Stonewall Inn Riots

Start of Gay Liberation Movement in US

Insecurity

Vastu Shastra

Feng Shui

Triple bottom line

Steve Elkington

Cannibals with Forks

OPEC Oil Embargo

1947 CE

Partition of India

1942 CE

United Nations

Accounting/beurocracy

compartamentaization

Economic Crisis

Inflection Point to Sustainability

1942 CE

1962 CE

1913 CE

1968 CE

1963 CE

1900 CE

1930 CE

1956 CE

1800 CE

1907 CE

1867 CE

1903 CE

1920 CE

1927 CE

1862 CE

1850 CE

1859 CE

1850 CE

1100

BCE

Iron Age

3500

BCE

Math--- incan math

9500

BCE

3700

BCE

6000

BCE

3000

BCE

1687 CE

1626 CE

1700 CE

1662 CE

1519 CE

1650 CE

1571 CE

1610 CE

500 CE

1440 CE

730 CE

1095 CE

1200 CE

570 CE

500 CE

5BCE - 30CE

80CE

476 CE

347 CE

2800

BCE

2500

BCE

1000

BCE

335

BCE

800

BCE

753

BCE

563

BCE

600

BCE

551

BCE

3000-539

BCE

1600

BCE

1550

BCE

1478 CE

1492 CE

1500 CE

500

BCE

380

BCE

335

BCE

1994 CE

1993 CE

2003 CE

1998 CE

2001 CE

1989 CE

1977 CE

1978 CE

1989 CE

1990 CE

1986 CE

1987 CE

1989 CE

1984 CE

1992 CE

1990 CE

1991 CE

2013 CE

2011 CE

2012 CE

2013 CE

1973 CE

1968 CE

1971 CE

1973 CE

1970 CE

2010 CE

2007 CE

2010 CE

2017 CE

2018 CE

2019 CE

The Gods were aligned with Natural Forces

Control of Nature

Abstraction

Loss of holistic thinking

Granaries

Farming

Animal Husbandry

Television

The Green belt

Communism

The Tao

Mahatma Gandhi

Assassination

Sri Aurobindo

The Suburbs

Confucius

Aristotle

I=PAT

Coal

Rene Descartes

Steam Engine

Reductionism

Positivism

Francis Bacon

Newton

Romanticism

Writing

The concept of zero

Enlightened Beings

Pythagoras

Euclid

Plato

Medical Text

The Calender

Metal Smithing

Monotheism

Compass

City/States

Cloning

Wikipedia

Electricity

established

Egyptian Shaduf:

Water Irrigation

Da Vinci

Earth Day

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

The Holocaust

and Atomic Bomb

GOOGLE

BP oil spill

Women Suffrage

Peak Oil by Hubbert

Hieroglyphic

Writings in Egypt

Tao Te Ching

EnlightenedBeings

Maps / Property definition

The Rosetta stone in written

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo

Colonialism and the Corporation

Theory of Evolution

Bush

Appolo 8

Earth Rise

The Moors enter Europe

"Money is the root of all evil"

The Modern Alphabets

Advanced Building

Polytheism develops:

The collapse of Rome

Nuclear Meltdown

Henry Ford

Write brothers

Nietzche death of god

Al Gore

The Spanish

Inquisition

Found of the Green Building Council

Harvey Milk

Assassination

Bhopal Gas Disaster

Nelson Mandela freed

Collapse of Soviet Union

Fall of Berlin wall

Chernobyl Disaster

Exxon - Valdez Oil Spill

Montreal Protocol

New Math and Science

Native American Genocide

Typhoon in India and Philippines

Hurricane Sandy

Malala education for girls

Scientific

Explanations

of nature?

Oil

Crisis 2

Enlightened Beings

Communications

Gutenberg Printing Press

Dark ages and Early middle age

Manderbrott

Chaos Theory

Fractals

Scientific Advancement

Algebra

Imhotep

Egyptian Architect

and priest

Ashoka the Great

268-232 BCE

James

Lovelock

GAIA

Theory

Nelson Mandala

Becomes President

Clinton Greening the Whitehouse Initiative

ADA American's with Disability Act

Centennial Sermon by William McDonough

Massacre at Tiananmen Square 1989

Human Genome Project

Massey

Coal Mine explosion

Euclidean Geometry

Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad

IPCC

Kyoto Protocol

Oil

Crisis

Hurricane

Katrina

Susan Maxman - First Woman president of the AIA

A machine that converts energy into work

IPCC

Report Climate Change

-Endangered Species Act

-Clean water act

-Clean air act

-Environmental Protection Agency

Birth of Confucius, (551 to 479 BC) philosopher concerning the fields of ethics and politics

Grain Surplus as Energy

Eco 92

UN conference on environment and development

A magnetic spoon is used as the first magnetic compass in China.105 CE

Great Pyramid of Giza

911

• Storage of surplus food/energy
• But also control of larger populations
• Hierarchical society

Jesus of Nazareth, aka Jesus, Jesus Christ

Copper-Europe

Wine- Middle East

Potter's Wheel- Ur in

Mesopotamia

(Modern day Iraq)

Albert Einstein- Theory of Relativity

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

Wave/Particle Duality

René Descartes- highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. "Father of Modern Philosophy" Cartesian coordinate system

Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata — De homines 1662.

Impact = Population X Affluence X Technology

Charles Darwin: Origin of species-Theory of Evolution

Translation of languages including hieroglyphs

Lao Tzu writes the first book on sustainability

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Russia and the communist parties of the now-independent former Soviet republics.

Egyptians devise the 12 month 365 day calendar

Earliest surviving medical textbook written in Egypt

Monotheism developed in West

Asia

Cuneiform writing appears

and records begin to be kept in China, Sumeria and Egypt.

Also allows for the thinking to the next generations.

US- Women's Suffrage

Right to vote gained

Y2K

Printing invented in China: an essential step in mass communication/ administration/

cultural dissemination

Link energy source to work as in coal to the steam engine

food to the slaves and animals

Train/telegraph/telephone

Francis Bacon- was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Bacon is known for witch trials and linking women with nature or persecuted for their connection to nature

Colonialism & Corporation:

Cortes begins his conquest of South America, which becomes part of the wider world economic and political system.

The Collapse of Rome

Ecological carrying capacity and stratification of social levels

Positivism is a philosophy that holds that the only authentic knowledge is that which is based on actual sense experience- the concept was first coined by Auguste Comte, widely considered the first modern sociologist

The "center" of the planet moves to the Middle East

Pottery in China & Ecuador

Sumerians begin working in various metals

Shekel is introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary weight unit

Rise of the Greek city-states

776 BCE

First Olympiad

Nature is tamed

The first use of the wheel for transportation in Mesopotamian chariots. Wheels may have had industrial or manufacturing applications before they were used on vehicles.

A further sense of separation of nature as people could now "own" the Earth. the ground itself was now a commodity

Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were much influenced by mathematics and probably a main inspirational source for Plato and Platonism.

• Population Explosion
• Fixed population locations
• The rise of classes

"The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue.

Rotary Quern is invented for milling grain, before this, grain was ground in a saddle quern or a mortar and pestle.

Spoked wheel reaches Europe.

Compass invented in China.

Ralph Waldo Emerson- American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle founded his philosophical school—known then as the Lyceum (named because it was located near the site of the Lyceum gymnasium in Athens)--and begins teaching there.

The Greeks understood that the earth was a sphere. Eratosthenes accurately calculated the circumference of the earth using angle measures.

Abū Abdallāh Muhmmad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, earlier transliterated as Algoritmi or Algaurizin, (c. 780 – c. 850) was a Persian[1][5] mathematician, astronomer and geographer during the Abbasid Empire, a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

Copper-Europe

Wine- Middle East

Potter's Wheel- Ur in

MesoThe Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians all worshipped pretty much the same set of gods, despite their cultural differences.

potamia

(Modern day Iraq)

King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile established the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 (Spain and in all Spanish colonies) Primary Targets: converts from Islam and converts from Judaism — both groups still resided in Spain after the end of the Islamic control of Spain

Modern alphabet invented: the essential means of communication of complex concepts and culture.

Beginning of Greek civilization: essential to Western heritage &

root of mathematics, philosophy, political thinking and medicine.

The conditions for this come from security and safety of the Age of Agriculture

Siddharta Gautama was born. He was enlightened under the Bodhi Tree and became the Buddha “Awakened One.” He would spend the rest of his life teaching meditation & mindfulness as a way to enlightenment. (Buddhism)

Empathy

Nicolaus Copernicus- Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543- regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution

RFK

MLK

JFK

X

The Milesian school was a school of thought introducing new opinions contrary to the prevailing viewpoint on how the world was organized, in which natural phenomena were explained solely by the will of anthropomorphized gods.

The Moors enter Europe and share ancient Greek, Egyptian and Roman Texts

First of the Crusades, Religious sanctioned military campaigns by Western Christian Europe, mainly Roman Catholic forces to restore Christian control of the ‘holy land’

Jabir ibn Hayyan- an alchemist. Described the laboratory techniques and experimental methods of chemistry. Identified many substances including sulfuric and nitric acid. He described sublimation, reduction and distillation.

Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi -philosopher and polymath scientist heavily involved in the translation of Greek classics into Arabic. Worked on cryptography; wrote a piece on the subject of time, space and relative movement.

Sir Isaac Newton- English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. (Universal gravitation; three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics; motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution.

Professor Wangari Maathai

St. Francis

Francis preached the teaching of the Catholic Church, that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers a need for redemption because of the primordial sin of man. He preached to man and beast the universal ability and duty of all creatures to praise God (a common theme in the Psalms) and the duty of men to protect and enjoy nature as both the stewards of God's creation and as creatures ourselves.[36] On November 29, 1979, Pope John Paul II declared St. Francis to be the Patron of Ecology.[38] Many of the stories that surround the life of St. Francis say that he had a great love for animals and the environment.[36]

Thursday, June 4, 1989

Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understand the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents.

What do all of these men have in common?

Publication: Synthesis of Yoga, which deals with practical guidance to Integral Yoga

The Four Inventions: China

9 November 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards.

• Spilled 10.8 million US gallons (or 37,000 metric tonnes)[1] of crude oil.
• Affected 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coastline, of which 200 miles (320 km) were heavily or moderately oiled

Bucky

Around 6000 B.C., the Egyptians developed an irrigation system for excess water compiled in the Nile or Tigris/Euphrates River. Of course, like most inventions developed throughout history, the irrigation system came out of necessity for the good of mankind. During the months of July through December treacherous floods would annually occur, causing the Nile River to rise above land and effect bountiful and harvested crops. In order to prevent the crops from deprivation, the Egyptians developed a clever and unique system – the Egyptian Shaduf. Although developed in Ancient Egypt as a simple concept to protect yielded harvests, the Egyptian Shaduf is still used today, as well as altered and implemented in various cultures globally. Essentially, this water irrigation system developed out of necessity in 6000 B.C. is an exceptional example of how an instrument of survival can alter the fore coming expanse of human evolution.

Imhotep was the world's first named architect who built Egypt's first pyramid, and was also a doctor, priest, sage, poet, astrologer, and chief minister to Djoser, the second king of Egypt's third dynasty.

As a physician, Imhotep is believed to have been the author of a papyrus text in which more than 90 anatomical terms and 48 injuries are described.

He may have also founded a school of medicine in Memphis, a part of his cult center possibly known as Asklepion, which remained famous for two thousand years. All of this occurred some 2,200 years before the Western Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, was born.

Death of Plato (student of Socrates) Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, Founded the 1st institution of higher learning in the Western world. In Plato's view, the average man mistakenly identified his self-interest with the satisfaction of his irrational desires, whereas man's real self-interest and fulfillment of his true nature lay in the control of the irrational desires by reason.

The addition of zero as a tenth positional digit is documented from the 7th century by Brahmagupta, though the earlier Bakhshali Manuscript, written sometime before the 5th century, also included zero. But it is in Khmer numerals of modern Cambodia where the first extant material evidence of zero as a numerical figure, dating its use back to the seventh century, is found.[3]

Puerto Rico over 4,000 Dead

Sea Level Rise in Miami

Jones organized children, who were working in mills and mines at the time, to participate in the "Children's Crusade", a march from Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Oyster Bay, New York, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt. (Child Labor)

Interpretation:

(new) analysis over synthesis old and will be new again

Malala education for girls

Climate Change Witnessed?

• Gunpowder discovered by Chinese- people could now kill others from a distance

Great Mistake #4

Friedman Doctrine: "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits"

$5/Gal Gas

in USA

Al Gore

Inconvenient Truth

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi- ‘Father of the Nation’ in India. Launched the ‘Quit India’ civil disobedience movement demanding immediate independence for India. In his early years, the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was a follower of the non-violent resistance philosophy of Gandhi.

George Bush

"We must end our addiction to foreign oil"

Perspective

moving away from collective to the individual

Warmth, protection from animals and extension time into the night.

T + C = I

"Savanna Principle" is a term coined by Satoshi Kanazawa in 2004 for the principle that human behavior remaining to some extent adapted to the ancestral environment of early Homo in the savanna may lead to problems or opportunities in a modern (Industrial or post-Industrial) environment. - Wikipedia BIOPHILIA

https://www.livescience.com/15377-savannas-human-ancestors-evolution.html

Changes in Climate thinned out the trees of the great forest forcing humans to engage the savannah. walking upright became critical for survival but it also freed up hands to begin to more easily manipulate objects as the need to hang onto branches was reduced

Land

Animals

The Age of the Dinosaurs

The Formation of the Earth

First traces

of life on earth

The Age of Humans

Introduction

Disclaimers

Sources

Learning Objectives

The purpose of the Grand Narrative is to expand the scale by which we understand our history so we can better understanding own time, and our future.

All the images have either: Creative Commons declaration or are imported from Prezi's "Licensed for Commercial Use". or licensed from Shutterstock.

• I have the utmost respect for all religious perspectives.
• As this course is taught from a secular perspective, some of the ideas and themes may prove uncomfortable for some -- please rest assured that the intentions are benign.

• This presentation is still US centric

• This presentation is not academically rigorous but is meant to be used to explore larger patterns of human development - especially in relation to the natural world.

• Main Sources: HyperHistory.com and Wikipedia.org

• Extend the scope of thinking about sustainability to longer spans of time.
• Identify the forces that shape widespread societal jumps in evolution - World View Shift.
• Identify the positive and negative impacts of abstract thinking.
• Recognize the relationships between the forces that shape societal values and human behaviors such as design.
• Recognize how different world views drive different views of nature.

Timeline Earth:

A Grand Narrative!

Not to scale

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Space,Time and Sustainable Design

Chapter 1 v2.0 Fall 2020