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Does Efficiency Always Work? Discussing the Jevons Paradox and Rebound Relationships

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Time: March 26, 2014 from 7pm to 8:45pm
Location: Strut Studios - 203 - 910 Richards Street
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
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Event Neighbourhood and Type: commercial, dr., -, panel, &, discussion
Organized By: Justin Ritchie
Latest Activity: Mar 25, 2014

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Will increased efficiency help in reducing our environmental impacts? How often does increased energy or material efficiency 'rebound' into increased consumption? What is the Jevons Paradox and have we been able to innovate around it?

Join us for a panel discussion with three perspectives on the question of the Jevons Paradox and the nature of efficient solutions to our ecological predicaments in a complex society.

Our Panel:

-- Eric Mazzi --
Eric Mazzi, PhD, P.Eng.
Instructor, Clean Energy Engineering.
UBC Master of Engineering in Clean Energy Program (www.cerc.ubc.ca)
Research Collaborator, UBC Sustainable Building Science Program (http://sbsp.ubc.ca/)

-- Michael Barkusky --
Instructor, Ecological Economics
Director of Finance and Administration, Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative Society
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) Secretary-Treasurer

-- Conrad Schmidt --
Author of Alternatives to Growth - Efficiency shifting
Workers of the World Relax - The Jevons Paradox

Format:

20 minute presentations from each panelist
45 minutes for Q&A

Organized by:
Vancouver De-growth
The Revelry Society
The Extraenvironmentalist
The BC Work Less Party

The event will be recorded on video and posted on The Extraenvironmentalist Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/xenvironmental By attending and asking a question, you may appear in the final video.

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Comment by Randy Chatterjee on March 25, 2014 at 10:24pm: This panel discussion from three brilliant students of economics--from very different backgrounds--cuts to the core of the fallacious, frightful, and fragile economics of our day. Our current economic model, a debt-based monetary system of multinational, oligopolistic industries run by a small cadre of publicly-unaccountable corporate board members, is teetering on the edge. This discussion on the seemingly simple and compelling issue of economic or energy efficiency unveils the core philosophical and physical contradiction of our time, a contradiction that could wipe out the human race, and many other species, or at very least dramatically decrease our living standards as we currently define them.

An event not to miss.

Rand Chatterjee
Co-Founder, Pacific Institute for Ecological Economics