Bob Wise Taipei EcoCity Video on Net Green News

It’s here, it’s here! Below is the Net Green News video featuring Bob Wise and the Taipei EcoCity 2050 Vision project.

Bob Wise to Speak on Taipei EcoCity Vision at The Natural Step Breakfast

Following is an event invitation from The Natural Step Network.

Please Join Us for Implementing Lasting Change: Taipei December 10 at The Natural Step Breakfast in Portland, Oregon

Bob Wise, Senior Project Manager for Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC and Director of Team Oregon, will speak at a Natural Step Breakfast event on December 10, 2009, from 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon.  Bob will explain how the City of Taipei, Taiwan is approaching sustainability, and how The Natural Step Framework and system conditions and the UN Urban Environmental accords are being used to create a new vision of what a city can be in the 21st century.

To register:  http://www.naturalstepusa.org/natural-step-events/

Summary
In 2009 Bob Wise led a team of consultants from Team Oregon, LLC (Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC, SERA Architects, and Century West Engineering), Origin International (Taipei) and the Chinese Culture University College of Environmental Design to develop an EcoCity Vision for Taipei, Taiwan extending to 2050.  The vision employs The Natural Step system conditions and Civic Ecology approaches for the visioning process, including backcasting, to develop three interrelated increasingly sustainable visions for the restorative organic city. Building on climate change and sustainability case studies of several outstanding global cities a detailed action plan was developed with indicators for charting progress in the future.

Background
Transformation in any organization is difficult to achieve. How might true and lasting transformation toward sustainability be realized in one of the world’s most densely populated cities?  Asia is emerging rapidly economically and strategically.  For example, China is forecast to build a new United States in the next 15 years — replicating the total number of square feet of floor space that currently exists in the United States.  Cities in China and Taiwan are focusing on new forms of city planning including the concepts of Eco-Cities and Eco-Districts or Eco-Development projects. The state of the art is improving rapidly in China and Taiwan.  The Mayor of Taipei, Taiwan wants to lead the region with a great vision for tomorrow that will be an example for all of Asia and commissioned Team Oregon to develop an aggressive vision of the future.