Summary of SB07 Taipei International Conference(2)
SB07 Taipei國際會議紀要(2) ![]() The Plenary Session III began immediately after the lunch with the keynote speech delivered by SB08Melbourne Co-chair Dr. Greg Foliente on "Beyond Triple-Bottom-Line and Green Buildings - Towards Sustainable Futures", an overall and integrated research on sustainable development. In the speech, Foliente explained the reasons why we needed to go beyond triple bottom line (3BL) to n-number of bottom line (nBL) in planning, design, management and assessment, and expand the goal and focus on urban sustainability rather than the relatively minor impact of designing and building one "green" building/facility at a time. This means integrated sustainability planning and assessment -- including the need for sustainability performance indicators and assessment tools/methods -- that scaled from products to whole built systems to asset portfolios and to urban regions. As centers of human settlements and consumption, our cities hold the keys to effective sustainability transitions. And the latter is only possible if substantial gains are delivered in short time periods -- i.e. akin to "tipping point" phenomena -- rather than incremental. Sustained innovation is crucial; "one-off" innovation attracts momentary attention but is woefully inadequate to have lasting impact. Process and product innovations can be sustained from one project to another via the performance approach. Thus, the concept, benefits and applications of the performance approach to facilitate society's transition to urban sustainability were also presented. ![]() Then, the speech "Moving towards Eco-City: Our Vision for a Sustainable Built Environment" delivered by ABRI Director General Ho Ming-chin. According to Director General Ho, ABRI was currently proposing the follow-up policy to extend the scope of green building promotion towards urban sustainability and eco-city development. The major green building policy, the Green Building Promotion Program, was proved to be successfully implemented from 2001 through 2007. The new-phase policy would focus on larger-scale issues from a progressive perspective and target on the establishment of an evaluation method and a series of promotional programs for eco-community and eco-city, paradigmatic eco-village projects, strategic planning for reducing heat island effect in the metropolis, ecological renovation for existing blocks and streetscapes, as well as a comprehensive incentive program in continuously promoting green building adoption, encouraging innovative green building design, regulating building electricity consumption, as well as upgrading building energy efficiency. According to the development direction, therefore, the interdisciplinary integration would be involved in the future research. ![]() ![]() ARF predicted that dramatic climatic change would arise as the carbon dioxide concentration increased in the future, especially along the edge of present desert areas. If we were unable to control desertification, arable lands would reduce and food lack. At present, biomass energy was widely promoted; but as its production would reduce lands for growing food, this suggested a threat of increasing farmland and food shortage. Thus, if we were facing the threat of desertification now, we would be confronting the crisis of human subsistence in the future. Therefore, ARF proposed the concept of symbiosis. It referred to a cycling system constituted by wild vegetable growth, symbiotic diets and composting from the aspect of living. It was also the key to sustainable building (SB). ARF pioneered the concept GB+Symbiosis=SB at the SB2002, and continued propagating to the world this concept at subsequent international conferences, particularly at the SB07 Taipei. With reference to our model, we must devote ourselves to water and tree conservation and practice symbiosis in order to establish a symbiotic civilization. In doing so, we may be able to find another way out from the 100000-year period catastrophe. |