Seeing a sustainable future - Alex Steffen

Talk by Alex Steffen.

[TheJaredtheJaredlong]

I'm an architecture student working on a project to design a building with zero admissions. When I was first briefed on the project it sounded impossible, but after actually researching sustainable strategies and developing and designing around them I found that it's actually really simple, if not intuitive, to do. There really is no reason why governments mandating net zero buildings isn't happening.

[starfire]

Yes, so we're talking about creating denser areas so we can do away with some of our materialistic consumerism and instead use services, and we can do away with our cars. But when we're talking about sustainability, how can a planet be sustainable if our food sources are not sustainable? He didn't talk about this point at all. Yes, we can make some changes to our lifestyle (this is inevitable as our world population increases) to decrease carbon emissions, but that's just one point.

[CognitiveApprentice]

Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. People sometimes like to engage in full-on debate mode in their comments.

My first thought when I see a "I hate the new layout" comment, is that every single mainstream site that has ever changed their layout EVER, has been universally condemned by their users for a few weeks, until they get used to it. The previous layout was new about a year ago, and comment sections were inundated with "I FUCKING HATE THE NEW LAYOUT"... Then people got used to it.

[tonimas]

After watching the video, can you tell me the essential message of the video? What was it about? *

[HigherPlanes]

A sustainable city doesn't depend on the importation of resources. I wonder why he didn't mention that? It's the most important aspect of a sustainable future.

[iilglobalinc]

Great talk. It's important to think about the future and what alternatives we may have to create or come about starting now. Interesting concepts at the end, thank you for the video!

[beegum]

If we... do stuff like greening the electric drill, then, we need to take care of the negative impact, the loss of basic skills, some of which are necessary during disaster scenarios. Whenever I see a disaster in a city, I am concerned that this plays out at some level in the developed world, and that, also, peoples lives could easily be lost and, especially, clean up run unnecessarily slowly and the reliant people disconnected from the reality of the work the workers are doing (restive).

[ahz]

This was really great! Made me feel optimistic for the future.
Now lets hope to see people follow through with this!

[Sagaepic]

I love the new design. Much smoother animation effects inside it, although the start page is kinda bad.

[AlexandrZaytsevet]

I neither expected nor anticipated this.

[hoppopandaciddrop]

Utopian dreams become real starting with information providing.

[BmrGould]

Of course they won't disappear. We still have the need of transportation across long distances. However there is a lot of room to reduce the amount of roads.

[rafrak]

That stealing the future thing reminded me of an anime called c:the money and soul of possibility.

[HigherPlanes]

I hadn't noticed that! If they keep going like this, Google is going to be synonymous with fuckup. Here's an idea, Instead of letting the employees who just want to get paid and don't give a shit what the site looks like call the shots, why not allow the users, the people who actually USE Youtube, to vote on what the best layout is? After all, we're the one's who use the site.

[keltzar]

It'll probably reach the point where very few people will own cars and they'll just rent them when they go on long trips.

[reveaglestar]

I must say I disagree with the "High Density" idea. I've seen some of the planes for these cities and find them to be a place I don't want to live in. You lose individuality, all the apartments are the same, and it's all too regulated.

[isopu]

Adam Savage has a brother who does TED talks...Who knew

[gingersaxophone]

with all this heating with the sun, its -16C where i live today can the sun really keep my house 40 degrees wamer then it is outside?

[HigherPlanes]

It's not about age, the new layout looks worse. I like good change not bad change. I wish google could at least learn how to make small changes

[genegenegene]

@ 7:11 the mafia guy has a corded drill.
That's not "The Green Way To