[Music]
Who am I I a mechanic I identify with
Nelson BC a small town nestled in the
mountains where I was born and spent my
childhood Nelson is a place known for
fantastic skiing an artistic community
hippies and grow operations I also
identify with the time of a classic
playoff series between the Vancouver
Canucks and the New York Islanders a
series in which a charismatic team of
players such as Tiger Williams Stan’s
meal and King Richard Broder almost did
the unthinkable
at the time and bring the Stanley Cup to
Vancouver Canucks are wild were
connected to nature and the elements we
think big and we have a frontier
mentality so who are you you may
identify with Lee Canadian or whatever
other cultural influences that have
shaped you when I was growing up as a
Canuck when I thought of Quebec I
thought a Gila Fleur that was Quebec to
me identity is important it’s within us
it’s what motivates us part of what
defines us is the culture from which we
come things such as historical events
and customary practices what also
defines us is our surroundings the
social and physical fabric in which we
live we’re currently living in a global
society that is increasingly urbanized
bottom line we live in cities
in fact the numbers are staggering
currently approximately four billion
people live in cities and that number is
expected to grow to five billion by the
year 2030 and that’s not far away and
this reality poses some serious concerns
with respect to sustainability you see
cities are like nodes of resource
consumption in the Earth’s system energy
consumption food consumption water use
all are concentrated in urban
environments and all are dependent on
the natural environment they’re putting
pressure on the natural environment
current Earth’s system research shows
that in some areas we are reaching the
carrying capacity of the earth these are
called planetary boundaries or the
limits to which we can deplete essential
life-support systems such as biospheric
integrity or biochemical flows without
there being severe consequences so the
key question that we need to consider is
how are we going to design a sustainable
future I argue that in order to achieve
a sustainable future we need to redesign
everything this means rethinking
commonly held assumptions about things
such as transportation food provision
and consumption energy creation and use
communication and building just to name
a few but is there something special
about this design process that makes it
different than coming up with a new
watch a new app or a new type of
construction material yes I believe
there is ecological and environmental
thinking must drive this process
in United Nations policy this is
referred to as mainstreaming
biodiversity in ecosystems in this sense
mainstreaming means bringing ecology
into decision-making in a meaningful way
it means considering these factors in
industries such as tourism fisheries
manufacturing and agriculture but when
we speak of design it’s a little more
profound we must have ecology drive the
design process and help us see systems
rather than linear problems so what does
this look like well some obvious
examples are things such as green roofs
recycling programs building integrated
renewable energy all of which are great
and necessary however ecology must
inform a systems view of our urban
environments and this means not only
built infrastructure and physical
technology but the actual processes that
drive how our cities operate this is an
ecological systems view of our urban
future
this is a bold ecological design of our
urban future there are many facets to
this but I want to focus on one how we
run our organizations mainstreaming
biodiversity and ecosystems into
organizational operation is a design
process we have to look at how our
organizations use and rely on the
ecosystem services that nature provides
us for example provisioning services
fresh water
source materials food regulating
services climate regulation providing a
stable climate flood regulation this is
something I think we’re quite familiar
with these days supporting services
primary production and nutrient cycling
this is the base foundation of our
natural ecosystems and cultural services
as that equality of nature spiritual
meaning and recreational opportunities
skiing being one of many these ecosystem
services must sustain the organizations
in which we work the urban environments
in which we live and future generations
to follow us we can’t mess them up and
we kind of currently are what I’m
putting forth to you today is not a
discrete solution rather what I’m
offering you is a new way of looking at
your life the governments you elect the
businesses that you deal with and the
urban environments in which you live we
need to usher in an eco industrial
revolution in the urban context we need
to bring environment focused design
thinking to our cities and it must be
driven through ecosystems thinking now
this is a huge challenge it will require
us to change our perspective to invent
new technology to rethink our urban
settings and to redesign or economic
systems to attach economic value to the
ecosystem services in our cities I’m
speaking of enormous change
and what will determine our success or
failure is how we respond to this
challenge
and I argue that this enormous change
needs to become part of our identity it
needs to become part of our identity as
canucks
s québécois and its Canadians in
essence we are in game 7 of the Stanley
Cup final and it’s double overtime right
we either rise to the challenge score
the winning goal and win the Cup or we
falter and we fail I can speak for
myself as a Canuck we don’t give up and
we see opportunity in adversity and I
hope you do too
because our future depends on it
thank
you
Who am I I a mechanic I identify with
Nelson BC a small town nestled in the
mountains where I was born and spent my
childhood Nelson is a place known for
fantastic skiing an artistic community
hippies and grow operations I also
identify with the time of a classic
playoff series between the Vancouver
Canucks and the New York Islanders a
series in which a charismatic team of
players such as Tiger Williams Stan’s
meal and King Richard Broder almost did
the unthinkable
at the time and bring the Stanley Cup to
Vancouver Canucks are wild were
connected to nature and the elements we
think big and we have a frontier
mentality so who are you you may
identify with Lee Canadian or whatever
other cultural influences that have
shaped you when I was growing up as a
Canuck when I thought of Quebec I
thought a Gila Fleur that was Quebec to
me identity is important it’s within us
it’s what motivates us part of what
defines us is the culture from which we
come things such as historical events
and customary practices what also
defines us is our surroundings the
social and physical fabric in which we
live we’re currently living in a global
society that is increasingly urbanized
bottom line we live in cities
in fact the numbers are staggering
currently approximately four billion
people live in cities and that number is
expected to grow to five billion by the
year 2030 and that’s not far away and
this reality poses some serious concerns
with respect to sustainability you see
cities are like nodes of resource
consumption in the Earth’s system energy
consumption food consumption water use
all are concentrated in urban
environments and all are dependent on
the natural environment they’re putting
pressure on the natural environment
current Earth’s system research shows
that in some areas we are reaching the
carrying capacity of the earth these are
called planetary boundaries or the
limits to which we can deplete essential
life-support systems such as biospheric
integrity or biochemical flows without
there being severe consequences so the
key question that we need to consider is
how are we going to design a sustainable
future I argue that in order to achieve
a sustainable future we need to redesign
everything this means rethinking
commonly held assumptions about things
such as transportation food provision
and consumption energy creation and use
communication and building just to name
a few but is there something special
about this design process that makes it
different than coming up with a new
watch a new app or a new type of
construction material yes I believe
there is ecological and environmental
thinking must drive this process
in United Nations policy this is
referred to as mainstreaming
biodiversity in ecosystems in this sense
mainstreaming means bringing ecology
into decision-making in a meaningful way
it means considering these factors in
industries such as tourism fisheries
manufacturing and agriculture but when
we speak of design it’s a little more
profound we must have ecology drive the
design process and help us see systems
rather than linear problems so what does
this look like well some obvious
examples are things such as green roofs
recycling programs building integrated
renewable energy all of which are great
and necessary however ecology must
inform a systems view of our urban
environments and this means not only
built infrastructure and physical
technology but the actual processes that
drive how our cities operate this is an
ecological systems view of our urban
future
this is a bold ecological design of our
urban future there are many facets to
this but I want to focus on one how we
run our organizations mainstreaming
biodiversity and ecosystems into
organizational operation is a design
process we have to look at how our
organizations use and rely on the
ecosystem services that nature provides
us for example provisioning services
fresh water
source materials food regulating
services climate regulation providing a
stable climate flood regulation this is
something I think we’re quite familiar
with these days supporting services
primary production and nutrient cycling
this is the base foundation of our
natural ecosystems and cultural services
as that equality of nature spiritual
meaning and recreational opportunities
skiing being one of many these ecosystem
services must sustain the organizations
in which we work the urban environments
in which we live and future generations
to follow us we can’t mess them up and
we kind of currently are what I’m
putting forth to you today is not a
discrete solution rather what I’m
offering you is a new way of looking at
your life the governments you elect the
businesses that you deal with and the
urban environments in which you live we
need to usher in an eco industrial
revolution in the urban context we need
to bring environment focused design
thinking to our cities and it must be
driven through ecosystems thinking now
this is a huge challenge it will require
us to change our perspective to invent
new technology to rethink our urban
settings and to redesign or economic
systems to attach economic value to the
ecosystem services in our cities I’m
speaking of enormous change
and what will determine our success or
failure is how we respond to this
challenge
and I argue that this enormous change
needs to become part of our identity it
needs to become part of our identity as
canucks
s québécois and its Canadians in
essence we are in game 7 of the Stanley
Cup final and it’s double overtime right
we either rise to the challenge score
the winning goal and win the Cup or we
falter and we fail I can speak for
myself as a Canuck we don’t give up and
we see opportunity in adversity and I
hope you do too
because our future depends on it
thank
you
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