Adaptation Community, Climate Change, Crops & Food Supply, New Technologies
Eco-geeks hold open source alternative to UN climate talks
September 24, 2015
Designer Daniel Connell is creating a prototype wind turbine that can be built for £20. Photograph: Tristan Copley Smith
In reaction to the failure of COP21, POC21 has brought together a network of 100 plus designers, makers and eco-geeks to innovate a new breed of sustainable lifestyle products. In the unusual setting of an ancient French castle, 12 selected projects have spent the last five weeks developing portable solar power systems, low-waste self-filtering showers, upcycled wind turbines, urban food production systems, affordable electric bicycles and human-powered agricultural machines.
“We need the tools to create different buying and consumption patterns,” Wind continues. “Tools that are less destructive and more sustainable. Then we [will] form global communities around these tools, bringing people together to amplify their impact, exchange what works best and speed up the process of adoption.”