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So let's talk about three more big levers that could really help on the consumption side.

Here are the physics principles that tell you how to reduce the energy consumption of transport.

The energy consumption of this typical tank here is 80 kilowatt hours per hundred person kilometers.

It's 80 times better in energy consumption, and it's powered by biofuel, by Weetabix.

Heating is a third of our energy consumption in Britain, and quite a lot of that is going into homes and other buildings, doing space heating and water heating.

Well, the laws of physics are written up there, which describe how the power consumption for heating is driven by the things you can control.

There's this remarkable technology called a thermostat: you grasp it, rotate it to the left, and your energy consumption in the home will decrease.

The third demand-side option I want to talk about, the third way to reduce energy consumption is: read your meters.

My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills.

There's a similar story for my electricity consumption, where switching off the DVD players, the stereos, the computer peripherals that were on all the time, and just switching them on when I needed them, knocked another third off my electricity bills, too.

The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.

Long-term trends suggest that this century is going to be a tough place to live, with population increases, consumption patterns increasing, and conflict over scarce natural resources.

One of the key issues was battery consumption and charging.

It recognizes where the person is, what they're doing, fills out the light when necessary to full spectrum white light, and saves maybe 30, 40 percent in energy consumption, we think, over even conventional state-of-the-art lighting systems.

But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human consumption, and that I was only scratching the surface, and that right the way up the food supply chain, in supermarkets, greengrocers, bakers, in our homes, in factories and farms, we were hemorrhaging out food.

That black line in the middle of that table is the likely level of consumption with an allowance for certain levels of inevitable waste.

Offal consumption has halved in Britain and America in the last 30 years.

It's an economy and culture called collaborative consumption, and, through it, people like Sebastian are becoming micro-entrepreneurs.

But the real magic and the secret source behind collaborative consumption marketplaces like Airbnb isn't the inventory or the money.

Now, this little anecdote gets to the heart of why I'm really passionate about collaborative consumption, and why, after I finished my book, I decided I'm going to try and spread this into a global movement.

Now welcome to the wonderful world of collaborative consumption that's enabling us to match wants with haves in more democratic ways.

Now, collaborative consumption is creating the start of a transformation in the way we think about supply and demand, but it's also a part of a massive value shift underway, where instead of consuming to keep up with the Joneses, people are consuming to get to know the Joneses.

I think TaskRabbit and other examples of collaborative consumption are like lemonade stands on steroids.

Now the interesting thing is, reputation is the socioeconomic lubricant that makes collaborative consumption work and scale, but the sources it will be generated from, and its applications, are far bigger than this space alone.

Now also being engineering scientists, we were able to quantify the performance benefits of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, so here are some shots of our trial in Guatemala where we tested the LFC on village terrain, and tested people's biomechanical outputs, their oxygen consumption, how fast they go, how much power they're putting out, both in their regular wheelchairs and using the LFC, and we found that the LFC is about 80 percent faster going on these terrains than a normal wheelchair.

Water consumption has increased to 430 liters.

Those are the critical questions, and what we have learned from PISA is that, in high-performing education systems, the leaders have convinced their citizens to make choices that value education, their future, more than consumption today.

EM: Well, as I mentioned earlier, we have to have sustainable electricity production as well as consumption, so I'm quite confident that the primary means of power generation will be solar.

If we look at construction and manufacturing, there's major inefficiencies, energy consumption and excessive labor techniques.

Of course, when the motor vehicle was invented, and it became almost ubiquitous by 1929, that agricultural land could be used for human consumption or for export.

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