This story below, illustrates the race we are in, and our failure to shift to the new paradigm, one where physical resources and skills limit our ability to enter a low carbon future by design rather than negligence.
The new paradigm has to recognise that human energy, creativity and ingenuity are the only indigenous assets we have to enable our continued existance as a coherent society.
We must reduce taxes on these crucial assets and transfer them, mainly to the non-renewable resources we consume, to force creative and continual reduction in their resource intensity; the amount consumed, per capita, per unit of consumption.
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see
http://trailblazerbusinessfutures.wordpress.com/the-one-planet-equation/
http://trailblazerbusinessfutures.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/on-being-ineffectively-efficient/
http://trailblazerbusinessfutures.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/failure-by-degree/
Cost of pipes stymies green energy
20 February 2009
District heating schemes in London are being cancelled because the cost of installing pre-insulated pipes has rocketed
CityWest Homes has abandoned a plan to connect eight properties to the Pimlico District Heating Undertaking because the estimate from utilities contractors was £1.7m, 70% higher than expected.
John Green, building services manager for CityWest, said the price hikes were caused by the cost of the pipes and a lack of competition among installers. “There was competition for digging the trench, but not for the pipeline. The cost is restricting the growth of district heating.”
David Wickersham, a technical adviser at CityWest, said: “Our schemes have failed because we went outside the money we set aside and now we’re scrambling to get back on course.”
The scheme was to have linked to the government’s Whitehall district heating system, which heats 18 government offices.
Full article at http://www.building.co.uk/sustain_story.asp?storycode=3134328&origin=bldgsustainnewsletter
