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Codes, Relocalization and More…September 6, 2008
David Eisenberg, DirectorDevelopment Center for Appropriate Technology
Subverting the Dominant Paradigm
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I think we have a smallwindow of opportunity to save
ourselves as a species.
I believe that window is thesize and shape of the
human heart…
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Most of the systemswe have created are
far beneath thedignity and
magnificence of thehuman species.
These systemsdenature us.
They override ourfundamental nature
as a caring, creative,nurturing species.
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In order to enableour survival we
have to evolve asa species.
This will be the firsttime in history that
evolution takesplace as a
conscious act.
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In order to enableour survival we
have to evolve asa species.
This will be the firsttime in history that
evolution takesplace as a
conscious act.
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For a dozen years I'vebeen working towards anintention: that if we are todeal responsibly with therisks associated withbuilding and development,we need to be able to seethose risks…fully, clearly,and in context…
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Ecological footprint is aconcept based oncarrying capacity. It's away to calculate theamount of productiveland required to supplyresources and absorbwastes from a givenactivity - of an individual,organization,community, nation orpopulation, including theworld population.
Where We Are - Ecological Footprint
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There's credibleevidence that if eachperson on Earth usedresources & generated wastesat the rate of the average American,Canadian, or member of the EU wewould need several more Earths tosustain that level of human activity.And that's for Earth's current population.
Our Ecological Footprint, Wackernagel and Rees
The Picture that is Emerging…
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The Big Picture - Living Planet Report
Download the Report:http://www.footprintnetwork.org
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www.footprintnetwork.org
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From the 2006 Living Planet Report
www.footprintnetwork.org
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Where We Can Go…
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REALITY - We're maintaining our high standard of living byimporting resources, cheap labor and ecological capacityfrom the developing world.
Surplus global ecological capacity no longer exists.
Ecological footprint is increasing in both the developed anddeveloping world and world population is growing.
Buildings account for a majority of this footprint and energyaccounts for much of that.
Where We Are…
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Climate change
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Don't Trust Scientists?…How About Insurers?
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Where We Are - Peak Oil
Source: Dr. Donald Aitken, ISES/ASES World Solar Congress 2005
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It may not beScience Fictionbut it surely is aBrave New World!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
Excerpted from,and a Sign of"The Times…"
And I didn'thave to makethis up…
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There is a large energy component to water,and a large water component to energy…
Not Just Energy - Water and Energy are Linked
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Where we are - at a Crossroads
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We would provide a lot of information aboutenergy security issues, climate change,ecological footprint, population, impacts ofvarious materials and processes.
It's not hard any more to make the case that wehave a constellation of extremely difficultchallenges facing us and the built environment isa significant part of the problem.
Then we'd talk about how we think about thesethings…
Life After Cheap Energy & a Stable Climate
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We can't rely on our past assumptions aboutprogress, technology, risk, standard of living,national security, global security, trade, oreconomics. It is all changing.
Today's energy and climate realities are stunningand stark. We have crucial choices to make andnot much time to make them. We have what weneed to find a safer path forward but to choose it,we have to change our minds and then changeour behaviors…
Life After Cheap Energy & a Stable Climate
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We often hear that weneed to think "outside thebox" to deal with ourproblems today.
But it's a process -expand your field of view,get out of the box you're in…into the next bigger box.
Get Out of the Box
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A Focus Shifting Template - What's MissingThings you used to think about
Important stuff youdon't yet know
Things you never thought about but should
Linkages to related realms
UnintendedConsequences Delayed impacts
Internalized risks Externalized risks
Internalized benefits
Linkages to unrelated realms
Externalized benefits
Important stuff youknow that isn't true
A Focus Shifting Template - The Usual Stuff
The list of thingsthat always holdyour attention
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A Focus Shifting Template - What's MissingThings you used to think about
Important stuff youdon't yet know
Things you never thought about but should
Linkages to related realms
UnintendedConsequences Delayed impacts
Internalized risks Externalized risks
Internalized benefits
Linkages to unrelated realms
Externalized benefits
Important stuff youknow that isn't true
A Focus Shifting Template - The Usual Stuff
The list of thingsthat always holdyour attention
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To get out of boxes requiresknowing if you're working inthe details or the big picture,in the past, present orfuture, and constantlyshifting your focus back andforth.
That helps keep things inperspective and proportion,enabling us to see the thingsas well as the relationshipsbetween them.
See the Details AND the Big Picture…
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International Building Code (USA) - 2000 edition
101.3 The purpose of this code is to establishthe minimum requirements to safeguard thepublic health, safety and general welfarethrough structural strength, means of egressfacilities, stability, sanitation, adequate light andventilation, energy conservation, and safety tolife and property from fire and other hazardsattributed to the built environment.
Big Picture in White - Details in Blue
The Purpose of Building Codes
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Modern building codes enable us to design andbuild structures that are safe for their occupants,making it seem that we've eliminated or greatlyreduced the risks associated with buildings.
What's Protected and What's at Risk?
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We've just moved those risks in space and time:- away from the building site, and- into the future.
What's Protected and What's at Risk?
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Big Problems Hidden in Plain View
Looking at buildings throughcodes is like looking througha microscope. The individual,building-related risks fill thefield of view.
But, it's like dealing with riskwith tweezers, while creatingmany orders of magnitudegreater, generalized risk foreveryone, including all futuregenerations.
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Fire SafetyStructural IntegrityMeans of EgressLightVentilationHeatWater & WastewaterElectrical & GasEnergy Efficiency
Risks to Future Generations
Risk - The Bigger Picture…
Nutrification of Water
Externalized Costs to Society
Climate Impact Resource Depletion
Pollution Loss of Habitat
Loss of Agricultural Land
Embodied Energy Dependence on Non-Renewable Energy
Loss of BiodiversityToxicity of Materials
Increased TransportationHeat Island Effect
Risk - Through the Microscope of Codes…
Fire SafetyStructural IntegrityMeans of EgressLightVentilationHeatWater & WastewaterElectrical & GasEnergy Efficiency
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Risks to Future Generations
Risk - The Bigger Picture…
Nutrification of Water
Externalized Costs to Society
Climate Impact Resource Depletion
Pollution Loss of Habitat
Loss of Agricultural Land
Embodied Energy Dependence on Non-Renewable Energy
Loss of BiodiversityToxicity of Materials
Increased TransportationHeat Island Effect
Fire SafetyStructural IntegrityMeans of EgressLightVentilationHeatWater & WastewaterElectrical & GasEnergy Efficiency
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English does not contain a suitable word for "systemof problems." Therefore I have had to coin one. Ichoose to call such a system a "mess." The solutionto a mess can seldom be obtained by independentlysolving each of the problems of which it iscomposed. - Russell L. Ackoff
Or, more simply put…Optimizing components in isolation tends topessimize the whole system.
- Paul Hawken, Amory & L. Hunter Lovins
Buildings are Complex Systems of Systems
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Building codes typically optimize components of abuilding in isolation, often pessimizing both thebuilding and the systems to which it's connected.
To truly optimize buildings requires consideringthe whole system of systems. All technologiesneed to be viewed this way, to include their wholerisk/benefit profile.
How to Not Pessimize the System?
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What Buildings Should and Shouldn't Do…
Building codes could be a set of principles for whatbuildings should and shouldn't do…
A good first principle would be a corollary of theHippocratic Oath; buildings should first do no harm.
To consider the harm a building might do requireslooking at the impacts from its entire lifecycle…
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Acquisition of Resources through Demolition & Beyond
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What?Where?To Whom?When?How?How Long?How Much?Reversible?Necessary?At What Costand to Whom?We can't get where we need to be by avoiding risk…
We Need to Ask New Questions about Risk
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We have to acknowledge that there are risks in allthat we do. Until we can see the whole risk profile,however, we will not be able to make gooddecisions about which risks are worth taking.
Our task is to keep revealing what we now know istrue, not claiming that what we do is risk-free. Weneed to make clear that we've recognized a muchlarger set of risks than the regulators and we'retrying to address them as well as their concerns.
The Task Before Us…
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We need to recognize and address the greatmodern myth - that we know what we're doingand are in control. We don't and we're not…
The Great Modern Myth
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We could have theintention of minimizingunintended consequencesand make that part of ourdecision-making process.
Addressing the Great Modern Myth
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Thinking deeply about ourchoices of materials andsystems might lead us todevelop a preference fordoing things as locally aspossible, as simply aspossible, and doing aslittle as possible of thosethings that we know areharmful or about whichour knowledge andunderstanding is limited.
Addressing the Great Modern Myth
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Appropriate technology - the lowest or simplestlevel of technology that can do the job well.
Appropriateness relates to where and for whatpurpose technology is used and the social,economic, and ecological context.
Truly appropriate technology doesn't make peopleor their communities dependent on systems overwhich they have no control. This meanstechnologies that enhance the local capacity tomeet local needs - in a lower energy world this isthe foundation for security and sustainablecommunities.
A Place to Start
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Doing things locally is important for manyreasons, but first and foremost, the feedbackloops are shorter and much higher quality.You're much more likely to run into theunintended consequences of your actions.
Relocalization
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If security is a goal, strengthening regional andlocal self-sufficiency is an essential strategy for usand for everyone else, everywhere else.Enhancing the local capacity of people and theircommunities to meet their own needs, also:
- shortens vulnerable supply lines - creates more robust & resilient supply systems - supports vital, durable local economies, and - supports healthy cultural, political, and social structures
Relocalization
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When we don't have inexpensive, abundantenergy to drag materials around the world,process them as much as we imagine we need to,and then drag them around some more, it willbecome crucial that we learn, once again, how touse well those resources that are available to uswhere we live…
The rules and the way we think about risk andbenefit will have to change - to become morenuanced, more inclusive, and more responsive.
Relocalization
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The relocalization movement is a key part of theshift toward sustainable development and truesecurity. This includes energy, materials, food,economic development and more. Check out thesewebsites for more information:
www.relocalize.net
www.postcarbon.org/informed/relocalization
Some Tools and Resources
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And We Keep Asking Questions…
Why do all our systems appear to be designed tomake the world safe for technology and capital?
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Making the World Safe for Technology?
What if we understood that our task as humanbeings on this planet is to make the world safefor all life forever…
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Some Questions We Should Be Asking
Does this choice or action:enhance or undermine your capacity to meet yourneeds locally/regionally?create benefit without making you dependent onsystems over which you have little or no control?transfer wealth out of the community?embed you and others in your community ordisplace or compel people to become transient?
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Does this choice or action:enhance or destroy equity - both the social andcultural equity related to fairness and justice, andthe tangible physical/economic benefits ofbelonging to and being "invested in" a place-based community?promote or undermine health - your health, thehealth of your family, your neighbors, yourcommunity, region, nation and the health ofpeople and living systems anywhere in the world?
Some Questions We Should Be Asking
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Does this choice or action:increase or decrease the level of unintendedconsequences flowing from what you are doing?increase or decrease your awareness,comprehension and ability to mitigate theunintended consequences of what you are doing?bring people together or drive them apart?
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Does this choice or action:cause offense, concern, or harm?bring joy and/or satisfaction to you and toeveryone effected by it?
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The Larger Context
Source: SERA Architects, Portland, OR - 2008
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This is a Trajectory not a Target
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Truly restorative and regenerative projects demanda fundamentally different mindset; a commitment tohonor the essence of each place we inhabit and toenhance the evolutionary capacity, vitality andhealth of both the natural and human systems.
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Harvests all its own energy and water
Adapted to climate and site
Operates pollution free
Promotes health and well-being
Comprised of Integrated Systems
Is Beautiful
www.cascadiagbc.org/lbc
The metaphor of the flower…
The Living Building
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www.biomimicry.net/
Why Not Look at How We Got Here?
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And Remember -
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