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Transcript of European Green Building Innovations
Lessons Learned from European Innovation
Jerry YudelsonYudelson Associates
Tucson, ArizonaSeptember 2, 2009
© 2009 Yudelson Associates
2009: “An Inconvenient Truth”
• Europeans way ahead of us• UK is committed
– all public housing carbon neutral by 2016; all private housing by 2018
• Germany is committed: – reduce GHG 36% by 2020
• Sweden is committed:– No imported oil by 2020– Vaxjö - Decoupling
• Switzerland is committed: – Reduce energy use to 2000
watts per capita (from 5000)
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What’s Different in Europe?
• Climate• Culture• Economics• Politics
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A Final Word
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”
-- Victor Hugo, 19th-century French writer
Thank You!
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