The news from Poznan is bleak, going by reports. Despite evermore evidences of warming and growing emissions that indicate a rise in temperatures even within the next decade, government spokespersons are in no mood to commit. National interests are being cited to hold on to carbon economies.
In such a scenario, it falls upon individuals and institutions, including corporates, to think up ways to help the planet. Let us all think up ways in which to make our homes and workplaces sustainable. It can be simple ideas, or grand ones but let us hear them all out. Let companies organize contests where the best ideas are rewarded handsomely. As the EnergyCollective blog says, video and podcast interviews with winners. They are after all the heroes in the war to save the planet.
Going a step ahead, town authorities should invite people to come up with radical designs for sustainable cities. Last week in Dallas, a group of experts across domains met to discuss a plan for a sustainable block in the city and prepare guidelines for an international design competition called Building Blocks Dallas, which will kick off in January.
The model could then be replicated anywhere.
A radical idea of a sustainable city is that it liberates itself of automobiles. Ville-Marie in Montreal has joined the ranks of a burgeoning global pedestrianization movement, one that imagines the liberation of the street from the supremacy of the automobile as the sustainable city’s declaration of independence. The movement's proponent Danish architect Jan Gehl calls these as “reconquered” cities.
Whether at workplace or at city level, people can be drawn in by incentives. BIG prizes! It can be done with involvement of companies with a stake in such projects. Anyway, the money is there for the asking! After all, if we can throw crores of rupees as prize money for a meaningless reality show where people get paid for being nasty and surviving in isolation, why not for nobler causes?
Norwegian author of bestseller Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder in his engaging book Ringmaster’s Daughter (as usual with delightful sub-stories in the ‘story’) talks of a concept, which ought to be picked by Big Boss organizers. If you need to get rid of that money, get something useful out of it. Let the group kept in isolation come up with earth-saving ideas, and unless this idea is approved as truly innovative, they stay in isolation. Akshay Kumar, how about that for something really useful?
So, come on folks, let us start. Come up with ideas that all of us can adopt at work and home. Do NOT hesitate.
In such a scenario, it falls upon individuals and institutions, including corporates, to think up ways to help the planet. Let us all think up ways in which to make our homes and workplaces sustainable. It can be simple ideas, or grand ones but let us hear them all out. Let companies organize contests where the best ideas are rewarded handsomely. As the EnergyCollective blog says, video and podcast interviews with winners. They are after all the heroes in the war to save the planet.
Going a step ahead, town authorities should invite people to come up with radical designs for sustainable cities. Last week in Dallas, a group of experts across domains met to discuss a plan for a sustainable block in the city and prepare guidelines for an international design competition called Building Blocks Dallas, which will kick off in January.
The model could then be replicated anywhere.
A radical idea of a sustainable city is that it liberates itself of automobiles. Ville-Marie in Montreal has joined the ranks of a burgeoning global pedestrianization movement, one that imagines the liberation of the street from the supremacy of the automobile as the sustainable city’s declaration of independence. The movement's proponent Danish architect Jan Gehl calls these as “reconquered” cities.
Whether at workplace or at city level, people can be drawn in by incentives. BIG prizes! It can be done with involvement of companies with a stake in such projects. Anyway, the money is there for the asking! After all, if we can throw crores of rupees as prize money for a meaningless reality show where people get paid for being nasty and surviving in isolation, why not for nobler causes?
Norwegian author of bestseller Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder in his engaging book Ringmaster’s Daughter (as usual with delightful sub-stories in the ‘story’) talks of a concept, which ought to be picked by Big Boss organizers. If you need to get rid of that money, get something useful out of it. Let the group kept in isolation come up with earth-saving ideas, and unless this idea is approved as truly innovative, they stay in isolation. Akshay Kumar, how about that for something really useful?
So, come on folks, let us start. Come up with ideas that all of us can adopt at work and home. Do NOT hesitate.
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