Keynote - The Resilient Home

Alex Wilson will describe his current sabbatical work on resilient design. Building on his work with “passive survivability” over the past six years, this shift to “resilience” aims to expand the dialog among all sectors of society, including the design and construction community, policy makers, insurance companies, and other businesses.

The goal is to create homes and communities that will function well in a radically different world of more intense storms, altered precipitation patterns, rising sea levels, drought, and the ongoing risk of terrorism—creating homes and communities that will maintain livable conditions in the event of extended power outages, interruptions in heating fuel, shortages of water, and scarcer or dramatically more expensive transportation fuels. He is broadening this discussion away from individual buildings to communities, addressing stronger local economies, local food production, and post-petroleum transportation options.

Alex looks forward to an interactive discussion that with both inspire participants about the importance of promoting the “life-safety” benefits of sustainability and inform his ongoing work and writing on this issue.

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