The potential of design to transform lives within the prison system and way beyond, is inspiring..
Over the break, I watched.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..
In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.Another metaphor is to reduce the viscosity of business.
I don’t know whether you have ever made a non-Newtonian fluid by mixing cornflour with water?
As soon as you try to move the fluid its viscosity rises exponentially; in fact, people have walked across swimming pools of the stuff.. For me, both the Devil’s Snare and the cornflour explain one of the key reasons why we fail in doing the great things we are all capable of.Importantly, the trajectory for that decarbonisation looks healthy.
What it really comes down to is different scenarios, related to levels of investment, and what that will consist of.Decarbonisation of the electricity grid is a very large-scale endeavour.
Massive wind turbines, all the way through to the PV panels on individual homes; all of these elements contribute to the electricity carbon factor and will play an important role in creating a more sustainable future.. Net zero by 2050.It’s true that not every building is going to be net zero at the moment.