The World in 2050? The environmental impact of how we live

Date

Sep 12, 2018

Time

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Speaker

Professors Brenda & Robert Vale

Affiliation

New Zealand

Series

Dresdner Planerforum

Language

en

Main Topic

Umwelt

Other Topics

Bauing., Architektur, Umwelt, Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh., Wirtschaft

Description

The lecture is about the impact of different ways of living and is based on research for our recent book written together with Dr Fabricio Chicca from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, called "Everyday Lifestyles and Sustainability: the environmental impact of doing the same things differently". Much current work on sustainability seems to assume that the ways of life in the wealthy countries can be sustained with a few technological changes, but we have always questioned this assumption. We all do the same things, we eat and sleep, we go to work and play, but how we individually do these things can have a huge impact on the environment. The lecture discusses the environmental impact of how we live at present by looking at the different impacts of different ways of living, based on a sample of the research done for the book which analysed a week in the lives of more than twenty households worldwide. Professors Robert and Brenda Vale are architects, writers and pioneer researchers from England who wrote their first well known book on sustainable design, “The Autonomous House”, in 1975. Following their design of award winning commercial buildings in the UK they went on to build the UK’s first autonomous house in 1993 and the first zero-emissions settlement (the Hockerton Housing Project) in 1998. They have received international awards for their work. In 1996, the Vales immigrated to New Zealand. More recently they developed the Australian government’s National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) which has now been put into operation. Their recent book, “Time to Eat the Dog? The real guide to sustainable living” resulted in death threats. Their latest books include "Living within a fair share Ecological Footprint", which they edited and which is a series of essays on what it means to live within a fair share of the earth's available renewable resources. Their other recent book is "Architecture on the Carpet" which is a history of toys and how they relate to what architects design.

Links

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