Sustainagility: how innovation will help save world. Sustainable business strategy - Keynote Speaker

http://www.globalchange.com Environment, innovation, agility, business. Video of Patrick Dixon at Globe Forum 2009. Sustainable business and how green technology will help sustainability, climate change, global warming, water shortages, food shortages, transport, energy, fuel, cities. Future aviation, travel, rail, cars, tourism, corporate travel, heating, lighting, heat pumps. Solar cells, wind power, biofuels, alternatiive energy generation. Future of coil, oil, gas and nuclear power. Electric vehicles. Green living. Protecting rainforests. Why climate change and other sustainability issues can be solved. Costs of global warming action. Marketing of green tech. Open innovation and crowdsourcing. Leadership of business and government. Government regulation, politics and political agreement. Activists and campaigning.

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[pilarleandro57]

nice idea, keep it up

[pjvdixon]

@pilarleandro57 Thanks!

[pjvdixon]

Thanks for these interesting posts and debate. These are complex issues.... your comments here will be read by 1000s of people.

[Smollie1]

I'm beginning to get a much more optimistic picture of the future. rises in oil prices, falls in fresh water, resource depletion, pollution and energy will be met with exponential increases in knowledge of sciences/technology. Innovation will overt crisis in the richest countries.

[mrmaciejm]

Excellent, again.

[deonnamalbroughkgh]

keep me warm baby  *rockmycity.info*

[Snurre86]

01:40 Entrepreneurs working together with banks, with venture capitalists, with multinationals, with governments.

[denstar2]

First what should be done: to do something what everybody understands. Start it rolling. Another thing: stop associate green technology with socialism and altruism. Green tech should be profit driven for simple reason: everybody is profit driven. Everybody will do if it will have clear ROI and give practitioners favorable social status.

[mrmaciejm]

I hope you are right and that this technology may be used in real time, but for now I have strong doubts that it will make any difference, for many reasons.

[pjvdixon]

We will see - but governments are pushing ahead with it.

[pjvdixon]

Hmm I would say carbon capture is much more advanced than fusion nuclear - has been practiced for years by energy companies on small scale. 30% increase in energy production translates to much smaller uplift in retail prices as much energy price relates to infrastructure, power losses and so on, billing etc.

[mrmaciejm]

The only beneficiary in my opinion in carbon storage and capture are the large coal companies, because they would sell more coal to offset energy losses due to reduced efficiency. Consumers would have to pay higher energy bills (which may have a positive impact), and energy producers invest in new infrastructure, instead of renewable energy. Everybody would love to have clean coal feasible and operational, but I have deep doubts that there will be any benefits of this technology.