Can technology bridge the gap between our lifestyle and its resource consumption? What when technology fails to deliver a simple solutions for the world’s population energy demands? We (collectively) would need 1.3 planets to sustain today's world average per capita consumption (for Europe about three planets and the US even five). What is when 1.3 billion Chinese achieve Europe’s consumption level (and hopefully they do)? Shouldn’t we better change our consumption habits? An impossible demand of course – the more so as (economic) growth is still the most important task we face.
Maybe there is no need to sacrifice our living standards – we only have to adapt to a green-lifestyle; architecturally spoken “change paradigms in building culture”, as architect Wilfried Wang demands: to contribute creatively to the development of the existing built environment, to rediscover local building materials and traditions, to react on topographic and climate conditions and more.
The freestanding architectural masterpiece – however - may soon be less common. Happy Blog Action Day!
October 15, 2009
Change Paradigms in Building Culture - Blog Action Day 2009.
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Christoph ,anarchitecture
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Why do you hope the Chinese reach the european consumption level? I think that europeans consume to much so it would be bad if the Chinese would consume as much too
sure? I have a very normal life stile, i love food bio, i go to the offices with the bus or the bike, i travel for work tre maximum four time a year by plane or I use my car 25.000 km/ year and i produce a quantity of co2 equals to 23 time my country. Italy!!
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