Revisiting the 2000 Watt Society : An Innovative Tool for Sustainable City Planning

The concept of the 2000 Watt Society has been developed in Switzerland at the ETH domain to inspire more innovations in sustainability and as a yard stick for planning energy and material efficient cities. The concept has been introduced as a planning tool to many central European cities. New districts in various cities have shown the political acceptance and economic viability of the consequences of the concept. In Singapore, the buildings and workplaces at the EcoCampus of NTU are approaching the terms of reference of the 2000 Watt Society for working places. Professor Zehnder delivered a CLC lecture on the 2000 Watt Society in 2011. In this coming lecture, he will review the progress of this idea since then.