TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Ilyas Jumadilov - Energy of the City 2.0. June 15, 2011

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Ilyas Jumadilov - Head of Energy Efficiency Department in Russia and CIS countries, JSC "Schneider Electric»(Schneider Electric), Moscow

City - as a basic form of the life on the Earth of a modern man. The city, and so the townspeople are the main consumers of energy. Citizens 2.0 - how do they relate to energy? How do they consume it? Will they be able to stop global warming by their behavior and affect the improvement of climate in general?

On the 27th of May the conference TEDxVorobyovy-Gory on the theme of City 2.0 was held as a part of the XVI International Exhibition of Architecture and Design "Arch-Moskwa ". It was supported by the curator of the exhibition Mr. Bart Goldhorn and the general information partner - online news portal GAZETA.RU.

The speakers - representatives of intellectual, scientific and professional elite -- expressed their vision of modern metropolis, revealing a number of actual topics: the use of Web 2.0 techniques to identify broad contexts and new meanings of the citizen's life ;new perspectives of the phenomenon of the modern city and lifestyles; presentation of perspectives of the urban environmental development; understanding of psychological comfort in the city; the feasibility of the city 2.0 in Russia, the existence of people who may be regarded as representatives of the city 2.0

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