TAINAN, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imagine 100 innovations that could generate 100 million jobs over the next decade. As Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center officially inaugurated, the Trends of Green Building Forum, organized by Delta Electronics Foundation, Delta Electronics, Inc., National Cheng Kung University, and NCKU Research and Development Foundation, was held in the conference hall of the green building, inviting internationally renowned entrepreneur Gaunter Pauli to discuss the Blue Economy, a new concept which uses existing resources to bring more values.
Renowned entrepreneur Gunter Pauli has launched a new approach to economics, the Blue Economy, which values child care and emphasizes regeneration, advocating that human beings should follow the example of organisms in using recycled materials, without leaving any waste or causing energy loss, to truly implement sustainable development.
Gunter Pauli pointed out, even though Green Economy is environmentally-friendly, enterprises need to invest more and consumers have to spend more, and the results are not as expected; however, the Blue Economy not only values child care, but it also emphasizes regeneration, hoping that the ecosystem can maintain the path of evolution for all living things to adjust and benefit one another.
Gunter Pauli has identified 100 zero-pollution and low-cost innovations with the potential to generate as many as 100 million job worldwide, including maggots as nature's nurses, glass as building material, wind energy without turbines and clean water without sewers, opening possibilities for a new generation of entrepreneurs who use what is available to sustainably address the needs of the Earth and all its citizens.
For example, the Eastgate Shopping Center and Office, located in Harare, Zimbabwe, also known as “The Anthill”, which is only using 10% of the energy of a conventional building of the same size, is modeled on the self-cooling mounds built by termites, creatures who are able to maintain the temperature inside the nest to within one degree of 31°C day and night.
The 100 innovations offer an insight into an emerging economy, the Blue Economy, which is more competitive and can generate jobs and bring innovations that steer business towards sustainability and build up social capital.
Gunter Pauli also emphasized, “From the perspective of the banks, they are more willing to provide loans to low-risk and high-reward building cases and the feature of sustainable development can help attract the attention of financial investors. In contrast to the ordinary office buildings, consumers can spend less to reside in the real green buildings.”
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Gunter Pauli, born in Antwerp in 1956, graduated in Economics from Loyola's University in Belgium and obtained his masters in business administration from INSEAD in France, while holding the most diverse jobs in order to "sustain his education and to save money which permitted extensive traveling during the summer holidays".
His multifarious entrepreneurial activities span business, culture, science, politics and the environment, and under his leadership, a small European company pioneered the first ecological factory the construction of which was completed in 1993.
He founded and directs the "Zero Emissions Research Initiative" of the United Nations University in Tokyo, redesigning manufacturing processes into non-polluting clusters of industries, laying the basis for the design of the first zero emissions industrial park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Fluent in six languages and having lived on all continents, he is a world citizen, presently living in Kamakura, Japan, with his wife and two children. He has written eight books which have been published in twelve languages. His first book was the biography of Dr. Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome whose assistant he was from 1979 to 1984. His last book, Breakthroughs, has just been published in Japanese, English, Spanish and Korean.
Among his long term ambitions, Gunter Pauli wishes “to contribute to sustainable social, economic and humane development worldwide, in which entrepreneurship plays a critical role not only for business, but also at a cultural, social, political and ethical level.”