Venture Capitalist and co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel built a hugely successful company based upon Contrarian THINKING “Find an important truth about something you believe to be true, that very few people agree with you on, and figure out a Factor 10 times superior solution.”
Okanagan College and the Mosaic Center are using Lean Project Delivery to deliver Living Building Challenge projects. Using Lean and more integrated practice they are able to achieve Net 0 energy at Net 0 additional cost. This is more than a Factor 10 reduction!
Rob Dumont a pioneer in starting the Passive House Movement used this same type of thinking when he developed a recipe for homes that use a Factor 10 times less energy. This type of thinking and innovation that got its start right here in Saskatchewan has helped to spawn a high performance home movement that is having a huge impact on helping to mitigate the 40% of GHG emissions that are the responsibility of the building industry.
According to Paul Hanley, author of ELEVEN, Factor 10 levels of reduction are the absolute minimum if we are going to support the 11 billion people that will occupy the planet by 2100. That is just 85 years away! Paul is very positive that if we get serious about reducing our footprint from the 1.6 planets that we are currently consuming that we won't need to take the spaceship that Elon Musk is designing to MARS.
Factor Ten is the radical idea that humanity must reduce resource turnover by 90% on a global scale within the next 30 to 50 years and that human energy use and material flows are currently unsustainable and destructive to the environment. To achieve dematerialization, Factor 10 proposes that within the next generation, human energy use must decrease by a factor of 10, and resource productivity and efficiency must increase by a factor of 10.[1]
Is the Timing Right for Factor 10?
Elon Musk and Tesla were the only GreenTech company to get mentioned in Peters book "Zero to One" as they have they have the 7 Key Elements needed to become a Zero to One company and achieve huge levels of success. If Elon can do it with cars, can we take the same thinking and a similar recipe to build a hugely successful Factor 10 design and construction companies.
Reality Check ...... Do we have the 7 KEY ELEMENTS
1. Timing: The world is waking up to the fact that climate change is a reality and
that the cost of prevention is much less than dealing with the collapse of our
civilization and so there is momentum growing to achieve factor 10 levels of
efficiency in the way we live on the planet.
Work leaders at #COP21 committed to major reduction in emissions!
2. Technology: As demonstrated by Dr. Rob Dumont, Okanagan College, Mosaic Center and EcoSmart we have a system for delivering economically viable Net Zero buildings. By going with basic principles of passive solar design, insulation, insulation and more
insulation we can achieve Net zero. Sounds boring but it
works!
3. Monopoly Product: If you were to go into any sub-division today, would you find a
beautiful unique home that uses Net 0 energy that was built for Net 0 additional
cost? With superior integration and lean
thinking this is feasible!
4. Team: It shouldn't be hard to assemble a great team. There are lots of Green folks passionate about saving the planet.
5. Distribution: With the tough targets being set at COP in Paris, anyone coming up with an economically viable practical Factor 10 solution, should find no problem creating a market for factor 10 homes. Our future depends upon it!
6. Durability: That's what we are talking about ... Built to last, energy independent and durable on the cost of energy.
7. A Secret. In our case we don’t want the process to be proprietary, as we need to
share what we know to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel and develop the
technologies and new ways for 11 billion people to live on our one and only
planet.
Hopefully this article will give you some motivation for joining the Factor 10 movement in reducing our global footprint.
Have an awesome day!
Murray Guy @Lean_tobe_Green
or EcoSmart can build you a Net 0 home
or Integrated Designs can help design your Net 0 building.
mguy@i-designs.ca /www.i-designs.ca
or EcoSmart can build you a Net 0 home
or Integrated Designs can help design your Net 0 building.
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