tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29350857351504529982024-02-20T15:12:42.539-08:00Sustainability, Global Warming and Climate Change - Patrick Dixon Keynote SpeakerGlobal warming / climate change videos and comment by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker. Website 11 million unique visitors and > 750,000 videos viewed. Author of 12 books. Main site: globalchange.com link on right of this page.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-23931511450541399202019-03-11T09:14:00.001-07:002019-03-11T09:14:20.422-07:00Future of Wind Energy - dramatic growth in wind farms, sustainable power...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PH4rdTTJo3w" width="480"></iframe>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-68647329166444645802017-12-13T11:34:00.000-08:002017-12-13T11:34:08.198-08:00SustainAgility - book on sustainability and green tech by Futurist keynote speaker Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Watch <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/cv.htm" mce_href="cv.htm" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Patrick Dixon</a>, co-author of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility book</strong>, keynote conference presentation at <a class="blank" href="http://www.globeforum.com/" mce_href="http://www.globeforum.com" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Globe Forum</a> in Stockholm 2009, on Sustainagility issues. Also watch <a class="blank" href="http://www.gfbn.com/pages/press-kit" mce_href="http://www.gfbn.com/pages/press-kit" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Johan Gorecki</a> on Sustainagility themes and <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4265" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">innovation</a> awards - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enIsmDpN13Q&feature=related" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enIsmDpN13Q&feature=related" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility</strong> is about how smart <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4265" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">innovation</a> and agile business will help protect the world, in practical ways and at affordable cost. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility</strong> is the title of a new book by <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/cv.htm" mce_href="cv.htm" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Patrick Dixon</a>, Chairman of <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/Global-Change-Ltd.htm" mce_href="Global-Change-Ltd.htm" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Global Change Ltd</a> and <a class="blank" href="http://www.gfbn.com/pages/press-kit" mce_href="http://www.gfbn.com/pages/press-kit" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Johan Gorecki</a>, Founder and CEO of <a class="blank" href="http://www.globeforum.com/" mce_href="http://www.globeforum.com" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Globe Forum</a>, published by Kogan Page.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility</strong> book is packed full of practical examples on every page of how different companies are going green - and making extra profits by doing so. Book is based on detailed research, industry experience and practical insights. Doing the right thing for the planet, local communities, <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4207" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">customers</a> and shareholder.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility</strong> describes the $40 trillion green <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3621" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">technology</a> boom: winners and losers in the race to develop new greener products and services. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sustainagility</strong> covers the future of energy, manufacturing, cities, transport, food, forests, water. Discover hundreds of facts that will change how you think about the future.</div>
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<a href="https://www.globalchange.com/Book-Keynote/Contact-Dr-Patrick-Dixon-email-and-mobile-phone.htm" mce_href="Book-Keynote/Contact-Dr-Patrick-Dixon-email-and-mobile-phone.htm" mce_style="line-height: 1.3em;" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Need a world-class sustainability keynote speaker? Phone </a><a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=211" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Patrick Dixon</a> now or email<span mce_style="line-height: 1.3em;" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></div>
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Reviews of Sustainagility book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sustainagility-Innovation-Companies-Protect-Future/dp/0749460830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297604961&sr=8-1" mce_href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sustainagility-Innovation-Companies-Protect-Future/dp/0749460830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297604961&sr=8-1" style="color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BUY NOW</a></h3>
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“Sustainagility is an excellent book that talks about actions and solutions. A good, practical view of future challenges.” <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frank Appel, CEO Deutsche Post DHL</strong></div>
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“Every person who worries about how we will be able to afford new, greener, technologies should read this book: much of it will pay for itself." <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Maud Olofsson, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden</strong></div>
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"Sustainagility is the missing handbook for life and business in the 21st century. The rules of the game have changed, business and life are transforming before our very eyes. <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Sustainagility is an essential guide that points a clear path to a fantastic future." <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Philip DesAutels, Director, Microsoft</strong></div>
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“Every <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=464" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">government</a> involved in responding to <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a> should read this book” <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Valdis Dombrovskis, Prime Minister of Latvia</strong></div>
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"Sustainagility contains vital messages for all business leaders. <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Practical ways to reduce carbon footprint, save <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4367" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">energy</a> and other resources. The book is also a brilliant guide to new <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3464" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">investment</a> opportunities." <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Brian Souter, CEO, Stagecoach Plc</strong></div>
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"An optimistic, innovative yet technologically realistic vision of the future, which breaks from the luddites and doom merchants.” <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Professor Edmund King, President of the Automobile Association</strong></div>
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“Sustainagility will change how you see the future. <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Every business leader should read it. <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Full of new ideas, business opportunities, and practical insights about solving many of the world’s greatest challenges in a profitable way. “ <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sir Peter Vardy, <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3522" style="color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a>Former Chairman of Vardy Group Plc</strong></div>
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Sustainagility contains chapters on the future of coal, oil, gas and biofuels, the future of transport, future of cities, future of manufacturing and distribution, future of forests, future of food.</div>
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Sustainagility describes major consumer and lifestyle shifts which will dominate the next 30 years. is about a new wave of lower cost, green innovation, so people can chose greener lifestyles, while still enjoying higher standards of living and saving money.</div>
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Sustainagility is about harnessing the inventive talent in every nation, every office, every factory and every home.</div>
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Sustainagility is about 500 <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/convergence.htm" mce_href="convergence.htm" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">innovations</a> that will change your world - most of which will pay for themselves.</div>
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Sustainagility is about practical answers to huge concerns about global warming, <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a> and other related issues.</div>
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Sustainagility is a road map to action by individuals, business <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=899" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">leaders</a> and governments.</div>
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Sustainability is about open <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4265" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">innovation</a> and crowdsourcing: collaborating in new ways to achieve rapid development of green technologies.</div>
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Sustainagility is a roadmap for sustainable business success: profitable and rapidly growing markets, waiting to be exploited by agile teams, able to move fast, adopt new methods, roll out new technologies.</div>
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Sustainagility is about the $40 trillion Carbon Boom - winners and losers in the drive for clean <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4367" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">energy</a> and sustainable living.</div>
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Sustainagility is about how to encourage green <a href="https://www.globalchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4265" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">innovation</a> inside your organisation, how to develop green technologies faster, and how to adapt rapidly to stay ahead, strengthening your brand, image and profitability.</div>
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Sustainagility is about how to be a successful green entrepreneur, how to create a new green business, how to raise finance, how to bring green products to market.</div>
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Watch this space for more.....on Sustainagility.....</div>
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Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-32826106575302672542014-03-21T00:39:00.001-07:002014-03-21T00:39:42.991-07:00Sustainable Business Growth - $40 trillion green tech - Energy Industry ...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZcjGxkLrGXI" width="480"></iframe>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-50439808167474561062014-02-25T05:09:00.001-08:002014-02-25T05:09:13.734-08:00Why Cities have a Great Future: Futurist speaker - keynote on real estat...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6AB2OuKT280" width="480"></iframe>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-34503300524963363122014-02-08T10:13:00.001-08:002014-02-08T10:13:38.561-08:00Why Green Tech Makes Business Sense - Futurist keynote speaker<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2ekU6q2V_HU" width="480"></iframe>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-74664752686624773142012-05-11T04:22:00.001-07:002012-05-11T04:22:23.162-07:00Sustainable Business? Innovation, Motivation, Profit AND Purpose - confe...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kB9BAoXFGlA?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-54319255051715687952011-11-15T08:13:00.000-08:002011-11-15T08:13:46.148-08:00Building a Better World: ultimate mission and brand value. Motivational ...<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fNxaSX1c9E8?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Change your life and strengthen your business. Building a Better Business by building a better world. Show how you make a difference in the lives of your customers, clients, consumers. Leadership - motivational leadership styles, leadership skills, leadership quotes, management tools. Biggest ethical test for every culture and every nation: creating a better world, improving life for people. Core value to drive every political debate, underwrites all laws, basis of all team leadership impossible to lead effectively for long without this principle: will the world be a better place as a result of this activity or not? Key to management, marketing, brands, branding, corporate image, reputation and motivation. Applies to leadership and team management in every industry including banks, banking, retail, communication, technology, phone companies, logistics, travel, tourism, freight, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceutical industry, innovation, product development, research, construction, real estate investment, fund management, investment banking and energy, transport and aviation. Whose world? Fundamental principle. If everyone or every business followed this example, would the world be a better place? Define better and world. Example in pharmaceutical industry failure to adequately protect their own patents and intellectual capital in face of public criticism about global health inequalities and social justice. Failure by pharma industry to win the better world argument in media. The most important promise of every business: we will make life better at a price you can afford. Human resources, team motivation, staff engagement and customer engagement. Impact on marketing and customer relationship management, customer satisfaction surveys. How to win war for talent, encourage recruitment, reduce staff turnover, increase staff retention. Executive education and staff training in leadership. The purpose: deliver on the promise. Profit comes from delivering on the promise. Part of keynote on the $40 trillion green tech revolution which could transform the future of our planet, with innovations that will provide answers to global warming if rolled out on a large enough scale. Impact of technologies already available in energy industry, water conservation, carbon reduction, recycling, power transmission over long distances, alternative power generation, buildings management. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon -- author of SustainAgility book, lecture for Suez Environmental global leadership team.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-73670317857133839262011-11-15T07:25:00.000-08:002011-11-15T07:25:53.021-08:00How to solve global water crisis: Innovation, Green Technology. Water, U...<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PG79lmDD5v8?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />How global water shortages will be solved. Drought in Australia, America, Asia, China, Africa, Australia. Crop failures, food price rises, hunger and famine. Forest fires and other results of lack of rain. Virtual water -- water used in energy production, manufacturing, agriculture, farming, food production and processing, textiles, pulp and paper industry. River management, with diversions and dam building is only part of solution. Expect huge growth in water conservation in agriculture and manufacturing. Virtual water and water trading as part of the globalisation of products and food. Link between water use and energy generation -- power station cooling for example. How low cost energy could solve water shortages by reducing cost of next-generation desalination. Part of keynote on the $40 trillion green tech revolution which could transform the future of our planet, with innovations that will provide answers to global warming if rolled out on a large enough scale. Impact of technologies already available in energy industry, water conservation, carbon reduction, recycling, power transmission over long distances, alternative power generation, buildings management. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon -- author of SustainAgility book, lecture for Suez Environmental global leadership team.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-2163786221931013322011-11-11T15:16:00.000-08:002011-11-11T15:16:18.958-08:00SustainAgility: Radical Rapid Smart Innovation to protect environment. F...<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tzZH36jGziY?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />The $40 trillion green tech revolution could transform the future of our planet, with innovations that will provide answers to global warming if rolled out on a large enough scale. Impact of technologies already available in energy industry, water conservation, carbon reduction, recycling, power transmission over long distances, alternative power generation, buildings management. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Patrick Dixon - lecture for Suez Environmental global leadership team.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-63139538218668867022011-11-11T02:27:00.000-08:002011-11-11T02:27:21.384-08:00Future food shortages: consumers, retail, farms, energy industry, biofue...<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D8-CPdv1Ek0?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Future food crisis and why there are global food shortages. Population growth is often blamed but we have enough food to feed the world without hunger of famine. Food price crises of 2007-8 and 2011-12 were caused by many factors including flood, drought, failed harvests, damaged crops, disease - but the biggest single change was burning food as biofuels. In 2011 over 40% of all wheat grain grown on farms in America was burnt in vehicles. Over 5% of all petrol / gasoline / diesel sold in Europe is now biofuels, much of it made from food. Biofuels have linked energy prices with food prices with land prices with forestry prices. We have one global market now for energy and food. So if energy prices rise, more food gets converted into energy - or biowaste, or trees.... but all these things affect land use at the end of the day. So if you expect (as I do) continued energy shortages, and rising oil prices, then it is logical to expect rising food prices. The trouble is that while wealthy nations suffer a little, individuals in the poorest nations suffer hugely. History shows clearly that rises in food prices and hunger amongst the population are the fastest ways to destabilise government. No surprise then that in 2007-8 we saw food riots in 33 nations and the fall of one government, and that in 2011 we saw riots and revolution in many nations (Middle East - so-called Arab Sprint). One of the factors that brought street protests was that ordinary people were finding food price rises were the last straw on top of so many other hardships, partly linked to to the global economic downturn, national debt crisis and banking crisis which in turn followed the original US sub-prime crisis. Lesson: global trends are complex, interlinked and minor trends can be amplified rapidly by globalisation and the digital village into radical forces for change. What does this all mean for farming, farmers, agriculture and land ownership? Expect prices for farm land to rise, in line with energy prices. Expect many farmers to switch crops from those supplying food direct to retail food chains, to crops which will find their way into biofuel manufacturing. Video of retail industry future trends by Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon - for UK retail industry executives at client event organised by Hermes.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-32559627703440903942011-07-21T10:14:00.000-07:002011-07-21T10:14:24.117-07:00Global Warming: action your company can take to reduce carbon footprint...<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D3UrGS_S0Bk?fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="295" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />Environment, innovation, agility, business. Offset carbon use from conference travel. 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.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-61651221888130104732011-05-11T07:57:00.000-07:002011-05-11T07:57:21.894-07:00Future of Oil Industry - when will oil run out? Kuwait and region<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/srptqISldPs?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe><br /><br />Future of energy industry, oil, gas, coal. impact on Middle East and Kuwait economy, When will oil run out? Estimates for "peak oil" and other energy issues. Dubai property crisis and efforts to develop desert cities that can survive without subsidy from oil wells. Challenges to Dubai following global economic shocks. Green technology and sustainability, SustainAgility book key themes. Comment by Futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon in Kuwait City following day with Kuwait Oil Company on leadership, motivation, strategy and green technology innovation. Environment and environmental activists. Forecasts for regional economic development. Global oil prices. Sustainable desert cities. Video recorded in Kuwait City on 18th May 2010.Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-90690028686442026732010-05-07T04:06:00.000-07:002010-05-07T04:07:48.191-07:00Sustainagility and the environment<p><object class="embed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/V8W412aAWQU" align="right" height="342" width="570"><param name="align" value="right"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V8W412aAWQU"><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video</em></object>Sustainagility is about how smart innovation and agile business will help protect the world, in practical ways and at affordable cost. Title of new book by Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki. The $40 trillion green technology boom: winners and losers in the race to develop new greener products and services. Sustainagility covers the future of energy, manufacturing, cities, transport, food, forests, water. Sustainagility describes major consumer and lifestyle shifts which will dominate the next 30 years.</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.globalchange.com/sustainagility.htm">Click here for more</a></p>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-17134485847298242192008-06-24T04:50:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:18:04.131-07:00Biofuels video: run buses on old cooking oil - Stagecoach ...<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/S9oSBe4ymzY' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/S9oSBe4ymzY'/></object></p><p>Innovation using old cooking oil to drive buses or cars or lorries. Future of public transport energy efficiency and Stagecoach innovation in energy saving, reducing carbon footprint. Why biofuel industry using food is dead -- converting food into oil is stupid and immoral but converting used cooking oil is a good thing. Biodiesel, biomass, biowaste and sugar to fuel conversion. Ethanol and gasoline or petrol mix, European Union EU poliy changes on biofuel and biowaste. Policy reversal. Anti-biofuel capaigns. Food riots, hunger, food shortages, rising food prices, whet prices, food hoarding and stockpiles. Speculation in food futures. Link oil price to food price. Starvation, Africa Asia, India, China. Competition for food -- poor people cannot eat, food prices rise, burning wheat in car engines, driving vehicles, adding ethanol to petrol / gasoline. Biodiesel, soybean price rises, rise price rises, food riots, destruction of forests for agriculture. Other reasons for rising food prices: drought, crop failure, hoarding, ban on food exports, stockpiling of food, speculation on food commodities markets. Ethics of biomass fuel generation and increased use of fertilisers. Net consumption or saving of CO2 / energy. Global trade in food, oil and energy. Ethical crisis in biofuels. Federal government policy and national energy policy. EU fuel regulations for ethanol, biodiesel and biomass fuel generation. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Business management video comment about successful Stagecoach innovation by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business.
<br />Energy saving, biofuels, biowaste, public transport, bus, buses, road haulage, cars, corporate, cost, management, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, biofuels, biodiesel, biomass, biowaste, fuel production, cars, vehicles, aviation, food, wheat, soya, sugar, ethanol, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-9820282749181540132008-06-23T04:44:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:17:13.819-07:00Video: 40% energy = buildings: offices waste energy global warming<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/4EOnyM6icg8' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/4EOnyM6icg8'/></object></p><p>How long buildings last -- scandal
<br />http://www.globalchange.com Scandal of short life of commercial buildings. Building and demolition costs and lifetime energy use of corporate real estate. 30 -- 40 year life expectancy of buildings. Buildings decay, poor design of corporate real estate. Head of corporate real estate. Corporate real estate portfolio management. Retrofitting costs to increase buildings energy efficiency. Short-termism, failure of long term planning. Building controls and building regulations. Visionary architecture. Example of Sydney Opera House. Re-engineering offices and factories. Home ownership and maintenance costs. Criminal activity and unethical business real estate practices. Pressure on short term profits and bottom line. Listed and protected buildings. Good building design. Memories and emotional connections with buildings of character. Poor foresight of high rise anonymous buildings made entirely of metal and glass. Building skyline icons, building communities, neighbourhoods, building tomorrow. Building longevity is a moral issue. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-16425820153848113122008-06-22T04:42:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:15:59.284-07:00Video: 7% carbon emissions = concrete - global warming facts CO2<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/Ls0XF8CxXXU' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/Ls0XF8CxXXU'/></object></p><p>Concrete impact on global warming -- save 7% global emissions? Heating to make cement, and carbon dioxide release. Reducng carbon dioxide emissions in construction and building industry. Zeobond, power station ash, University of Melbourne. Long term strength and safety of e-crete or polymer concrete. Global construction boom. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-16357347101779335852008-06-21T04:41:00.003-07:002008-06-30T04:14:57.562-07:00Geothermal heat pumps video - save 50% energy global warming<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/pmlhtkaQI6E' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/pmlhtkaQI6E'/></object></p><p>Heat exchangers, geothermal heat pumps, payback period of 15 years. Installation of geothermal heating and cooling in new buildings in Sweden, New Zealand Switzerland, UK, US, Australia, Pilot schemes and real estate power use. Increased electricity demand from geothermal. Impact on power generators and power distribution, national grid impact. Architects, building design, corporate real estate, domestic housing, energy saving and better insulation. Reduce energy costs and carbon footprint of new buildings. New business opportunities, government subsidies, national buildings regulations, tax relief. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-54017590481343562102008-06-20T04:41:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:14:26.772-07:00Green Roofs video - save energy - global warming action - ...<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/mW9fMfgL5Zg' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/mW9fMfgL5Zg'/></object></p><p>Data from Chicago, Tokyo, California, New York, Australia, Toronto, Germany, Reduction of roof temperature, city climate, heat island reduction, cooling savings, environmental. High rise blocks with ventilation costs. Retrofitting. Open living spaces, carbon-neutral buildings with natural light, renewable power generation. Wind turbines on roofs and solar cells. Payback period of renewable energy generation. Falling solar cell costs. Solar cell demand in Germany. Government subsidies, generous unit payments for home generation electricity. Innovation and new technology. Kwhr. Distortion of energy markets. Economies of scale. Cost per unit falling. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-84916282744440837342008-06-19T04:39:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:13:50.383-07:00Biofuels scandal - food or fuel? Biofuel crisis,biofuel oil<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/yTBSJl9gabA' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/yTBSJl9gabA'/></object></p><p>biofuel industry is dead -- biofuel by converting food into oil is stupid and immoral. Biodiesel, biomass, biowaste and sugar to fuel conversion. Ethanol and gasoline or petrol mix, European Union EU policy changes on biofuel. Biofuels policy reversal. Anti-biofuel campaigns. Biofuel blamed for food riots, hunger, food shortages, rising food prices, wheat prices, food hoarding and stockpiles. Biofuel production: speculation in food futures. Biofuel links oil price to food price. Do biofuel quotas cause starvation, Africa Asia, India, China? Competition from biofuel manufafturers for food -- poor people cannot eat, food prices rise, biofuel means burning wheat in car engines, driving vehicles on biofuel, adding ethanol to petrol / gasoline. Biodiesel, soybean price rises, rice price rises, food riots, biofuel destruction of forests for agriculture. Non biofuel reasons for rising food prices: drought, crop failure, hoarding, ban on food exports, stockpiling of food, speculation on food commodities markets. Ethics of biomass fuel generation and increased use of fertilisers. Net carbon footprint of biofuel production. Net biofuel consumption or saving of CO2 / energy. Global trade in biofuels, food, oil and energy. Ethical crisis in biofuels industry. Federal government policy on biofuels and national energy policy. EU fuel regulations for ethanol, biodiesel and biomass fuel generation. Biofuel impact on oil prices, demand, economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Biofuels and environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, biofuels, biodiesel, biomass, biowaste, fuel production, cars, vehicles, aviation, food, wheat, soya, sugar, ethanol, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-79318186372446498092008-06-18T04:38:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:12:14.750-07:00Global warming - what governments should do and will do<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/HNFOeY45Ck8' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/HNFOeY45Ck8'/></object></p><p>Government action on global warming and climate change. Future government policy, distortion of national energy markets with regulations, tax reliefs and direct subsidies. Government subsidies distort energy markets. Public pressure, campaigns and activist groups. Changes in buildings regulations and planning controls to reduce energy consumption in real estate. National trading schemes for carbon in Australia. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-23357807702139917612008-06-17T04:40:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:13:27.458-07:00Global Warming video - cutting peak energy demand, surges, ...<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/HwWtgHfbV-E' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/HwWtgHfbV-E'/></object></p><p>Peak electricity consumption, power cuts, brownouts, cold and hot days. Reducing peak demand. Intelligent metering and automatic meter readings. Cost per megawatt hour, mwhr. Reducing energy demand with better insulation, balancing air conditioning, more efficient heating. Intelligent buildings, off peak electricity and variable pricing, with weather variable discounts and surcharges. Remote meter reading using broadband, internet, Bluetooth, short range wireless and mobile phone technology. Cut air conditioning costs in low efficiency buildings. Peak energy demand in factories, offices, homes, schools, hospitals and government buildings. Short pay back period. Self-financing. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-30359426666938582742008-06-16T04:38:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:11:37.128-07:00Global Warming - Practical Action to Stop Climate Change<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/JCgiHT70_o0' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/JCgiHT70_o0'/></object></p><p>Princeton University, Stop climate change. Slow down global warming. Reduce carbon emissions. wedges to tackle global warming. Real estate contribution to global warming -- 40% energy consumption on heating, cooling and lighting buildings. Carbon capture and carbon sequestration. Oxygen burning for coal to produce pure CO2 for carbon capture. Impact of carbon capure 95% to 100% carbon capture using next-generation technology. Compression of C02 underground. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-27104921778523118822008-06-15T04:32:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:10:39.062-07:00Future of oil prices - oil price rises - oil industry trends<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/CEGEakzHxO8' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/CEGEakzHxO8'/></object></p><p>Rational pricing of oil -- recent $15 a barrel rising to $120 a barrel for oil. Potential peak of $250 a barrel. Petrochemical industry future. Future of oil prices. Rising and falling oil prices. Peak demand. OPEC output capacity. Instability and national oil producers. Economic impact of high oil prices. Oil industry trends. Energy industry outlook. Forecasting future oil prices. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS.. Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, "tight" buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
<br />Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-47457397508571440582008-06-14T04:27:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:09:52.462-07:00Oil prices and aviation industry trends<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/IQ4x95qenV0' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/IQ4x95qenV0'/></object></p><p>Future of aviation industry with higher oil prices. Operational efficiency and budget airlines, capacity, turnaround time, cost reduction, seat occupancy, load factor increase, fuel efficiency with new planes. Future of airline travel for business, leisure and tourism. Transport competition from road and rail. Total fuel element of travel cost small. Discounted air fares. Aviation industry profitability, crisis, mergers and acquisitions. Long haul flights and short haul flights. Carbon offset travel carbon dioxide emissions -- airlines. Air freight carbon offset for DHL, UPS and Fedex. Average cost per passenger seat. Dollar price of oil. Future oil price trends. Impact of higher oil prices on aviation. Use of biofuel and alternative fuels. Business class tickets, image and public relations. Alternatives to commercial travel for meetings.Video by keynote conference speaker Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist and author of 12 books on global trends including Futurewise and Building a Better Business.
<br /></p></div>Patrick Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09502347538023164141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935085735150452998.post-52193750759887427572008-06-13T04:26:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:09:07.808-07:00Electric cars future - global warming impact? video<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/HHuM6Zu4les' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/HHuM6Zu4les'/></object></p><p>Future electric cars. Held back by battery technology innovation. Lead acid and now nickel cadmium. Charging time, capacity, miles and energy efficiency. Global warming -- where does the electricity come from? Zero emissions in cities but same emissions maybe from power generator elsewhere. Tax savings on electric cars. Manufacturers and size of market for electric cars. Electric car taxation and running costs. Efficiency and impact on environment.
<br />Electric cars, vehicles, lorries, vans, transport, transportation, battery, capacity, market. Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist and author of 12 books on global trends including Futurewise and Building a Better Business.
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