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A vision of sustainable housing for all of humanity | Vishaan Chakrabarti

TED Climate

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The Right Answer to How's Our Coming Building Boom Are Towers

Towers are energy intensive to build and opera they house a lot of people. Most skyscrapers are built out of steel and concrete, which have a very high degree of embodied energy. For towers to really be sustainable, we need tho clean energy grids that we spoke about,. But we don't have them available to us to day. So we have a paradox. How do we building urban carbon negative housing in a means that's technologically attainable and broadly affordable? Because i'm tired of talking about 20 50. I believe that the answer is hiding in plain sight.

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