Download - John Thackara: How to make less, more
1the economy does not need to be fixed
it needs to be replaced
A Doomsday Machine Economy
Climate change = sea level rise60 centimetres - or 25 metres?
Peak Oil
< < “net energy cliff”
Renewable Energy
Peak credit
Peak Food
WHY?
Peak Food = Peak Fat
1 kg Rice: 3,400 litres
1 kg Beef: 15,500 litres
1 kg chocolate: 24,000 litres
[ Hoekstra ])
Peak water
Resource extraction
“US ICT industry to quadruple its consumption of electricity between 2009
and 2020”
[Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics & Rice University, 2010]
Climate change
Biodiversity
Energy
Water
Materials
Food
Fat
Doomsday Machine Economy [Adbusters]
Living Planet Index
GROWTH
"A thief who tells a judge he is stealing less than before will receive no leniency. So why do companies get environmental awards for ‘polluting less’ - even though they are still polluting ? ".
[ Gunther Pauli ]
!
so, what is the alternative?
a green economy
a restorative economy
a solidarity economy
a happiness economy
a steady-state economy
green, restorative, solidarity, happiness, steady-state ....
four design principles:
Design principle 1:
From human-centered to l ife-centered
Design principle 2:
From extractive to restorative
Design principle 3: from productivity to solidarity
Design principle 4: focus on system, not on symptoms
nice sermon, john - but:
what work will people do?how will it be paid for?
answer: prosperity based on
what we’ve already got
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5% SOLUTIONS
BY
CHANGING THE QUESTION
5% mobility
“how are we to pay for transport infrastructure and subsidies?”
1,000%
5%
existing infrastructure
Load-management
via ICT
£7k
smart paratransit
5% schools
“what are we to do now the government has cancelled new school building projects?”
45,000 euros per classroom seat $1 per child per year
5% food
“how will the government stop us eating the junk food that is making us all ill?”
foodsheds
resources...
resources...
resources...
resources
DOTT £100k > > MEC £4m
[12/10/10]
FINALIST, BBC Food & Farming Awards 2010
5% health
Text
“Cubans achieve the same
level of health with only 5%
of the health care
expenditure of Americans."
(SCIENCE, 30 April 2010)
Text
clean drinking water
low-income, high well-being
primary health care
maternal care
nutrition
5% health
HelloHealth
(Brooklyn, USA)
C ACTIONS
Map existing value
Connect the actors
Services for sharing
Social innovtion labs
Five Days Halifax : mapping the territory
map resources...
Ingrid Koivukangas
MARA ADAMITZ SCRUPE
talent-spotting
socialassets
“we love our mash-up city” [10/10/10]
= social wealth
Dance of the BIG and the SMALL
Connect the actors
Open Space meeting
[Connecting the actors]Explorers Clubs
SOCIAL INNOVATION LABSeg Designs of The Time
SOCIAL INNOVATION LABS
City Eco Lab (France)
LAB
LAB [Secret Garden Party]
THANK YOU
THACKARA.COM
