For those who missed my UN keynote speech on sustainable energy at the Small Island Developing States Conference in Samoa, please find below.. Comments welcomed. We need to employ new smart manufacturing technologies, which also rely on decentralisation, networked systems, and other inherently more efficient approaches based on complex adaptive systems. In order to build a truly resilient structure, we not only need to think on framing a sustainable local technology network, but also comprehend its implications on a much larger scale. Urban context is equally important in this equation, on a nation-wide scale. Thinking of the urban fabric as a whole and not focussing on isolated systems or projects thus allows us to look at energy as an integral part of that locality. This will help us to focus on the interconnectivity that is crucial to efficiency. The key issue here is the ability of our urban systems to learn and to improve, and that in turn relies upon an ability to find and adopt models that show evidence of working.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:25:19 +0000