If we are to balance the ‘One Planet Equation’, we have to reduce the ‘resource intensity’ of the goods and services we consume by a factor of ten and perhaps a hundred by 2050.
Realistically we can only do this by reducing the ‘resource intensity’ of most other than essential physical activities to zero. Resource Intensity being the resource use per unit of consumption per person.
If there is a way that many other processes can be transferred into a virtual world, this possibility exists, particularly with the ‘Resource Intensity of Mobility’, RIoM and the the ‘Resource Intensity of Knowledge’ RIoK
The Built Environment Group is exploring ways of achieving this at the link below.
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Be2camp is a place for people interested in how the latest web applications and web design techniques (Web 2.0; eg: RSS, blogs, Twitter, Wikis, Google Maps) could help build a better, more sustainable built environment – from planning and design through construction to occupation and management of buildings, infrastructure, landscape, etc.
Be2camp 2008, the UK’s (and possibly the world’s) first unconference focused on Web 2.0 and the built environment, was held in London in October 2008, Be2camp North happened in Liverpool in May 2009. This site gives information about these, and future activities. Keep in touch: Follow @Be2camp on Twitter.
See also
http://trailblazerbusinessfutures.wordpress.com/the-one-planet-equation/
