This presentation for the Manchester Innovation Boardroom looks at the question - how can we light and heat our cities in future? It suggests that the solutions lie not just in technological advances but in a recognition that things need to be done differently to cut out waste and create new opportunities.

1. Lighten our darkness

3. Can we reinvent the city?

4. Reduce, reuse, recycle
Güssing, Austria: 85% renewable energy
Barcelona: 45% solar water heating

5. Copenhagen: self-sufficiency

6. The post-commuter city?
…travel to work areas are getting larger
…21.8m productive hours lost to commuting

8. Back to the garden city?

9. Incredible edible cities

10. Urban farming: not so wild
- solution for shrinking cities (Detroit)
- temporary uses (Bradford hole)
- combines quality of place with urban cooling

11. Energy, food, leisure…

12. Waste to energy: bio-methane
- can be collected and processed locally
- ready supply of organic material
- reduces dependence on fossil fuels

13. Green infrastructure for
urban cooling

14. Seeing the light?
Rethink behaviour
and the rest will follow

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