You are here Fossil fuel consumption (8000BC to 12000AD) Source: Lawrence Staudt, Dundalk Institute, 2007 “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Richard Buckminster Fuller, critical path, 1981 Imagine a next generation …with no dependence of finite energy resources …without the burden of uncontrollable energy cost …that will safeguard sustainable value creation helpen by energy independence …and our generation ensuring this independence for the next our choice our opportunity Netherlands Buildings 7.500.000 Energy spendings € 30 bn 0-investment PTZbudget € 17,4 bn / 4 years Annual saving > year 5 € 7.5 bn CO2-saving 25 bn t our choice our opportunity