TEDxToronto - Tom Rand - 9/10/09

Tom Rand outlines his Green Hotel project at TEDxToronto.

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• TEDx
• TEDxToronto
• Tom Rand
• The Green Hotel
• What's Next

[MaRScentre]

Tom makes carbon reduction EASY: he understands that it's about money. People need incentives to change. GREAT JOB!

[pgrissomat]

The question is not, "Why would you adopt geothermal?" but "Why wouldn't you?" Tom Rand makes a compelling case, we should all spread the word.

[thetomrand]

Glomerol -We pay the City of Toronto a fee for the use of the three-dimensional space beneath the laneway, thus paying for the use of public grounds. In addition, the mitigation of carbon is in the public good, also a form of "payment".

Tom

[Glomerol]

My previous comment also relates to the notion of geothermal or any other technology and how it needs to holistically fit in with the sociocultural/ecological, etc..

Where Rand's hotel sits on public land and leverages, as I think he says, 'public landway' (and below-ground resources too), then "his" hotel needs to be shared- the (local) economy needs to benefit from it for true, shared community and profit.

That is, incidentally, ostensibly along the lines of what permaculture teaches.

[Glomerol]

"...The US does not want to see the indigenous view of water, or natural gas, or oil, or resources in the ground to prevail... I was in a meeting of Oua(?) people who are fighting oil development in Colombia... and [how] they talk about oil... [is] completely alien to the western development and corporate development model... prevailing western powers don't think anything negative at all about going in and overpowering that if they can get away with it."

--Jerry Mander