3% of India’s landmass 40% of her people 75% of her natural resources 62% of GDP

1. 3% of India’s landmass • 40% of her people • 75% of her natural resources • 62% of GDP • That’s our cities. Parasites that corrode our larger ecosystems

2. 3K calories a day … Current Sun provides. • 225,000 calories a day is our current urban per capita. • All the rest of energy comes from Coal, Oil, Gas… or the Ancient Sun.

3. India comprises just 2.4% of the world’s inhabitable geographic spread. • We support 17% of the world’s people. • 3600 Urban Agglomerations, towns and cities

4. Tamil Nadu expected to touch 76% urbanization by 2025; • Maharashtra 52% by that year. • World average today at 50%. • India’s average today at under 38%

5. India’s GDP touched US$ 1 trillion last year. • NYC alone generates 1.3 trillion. • Tokyo’s is even larger at 1.4 trillion plus.

6. Buildings that have sought Green certification is now at 850 m. sft. • Set to touch 1 billion Sft before March 2012. • That’s 1 green Sft for every citizen • The first billion took nine years. The 2nd billion green sft will come in next 4 years. • This year alone India is building 6 billion Sft. Gradually going up to 30 billion by 2030.

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8. We use . . . • no bricks, no clay blocks, no clay tiles, no ceramic or vitrified tiles for bathrooms or for swimming pools. • No forest timber, no incandescent bulbs, no regular fluorescent lamps, no halogen lamps. • No waste exported, no municipal water imported. • 20% power imported from grid.

9. We use . . . • no geysers for hot water in our homes. • no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. • no kitchen waste exported. • no HCFC CFC or ODS in natural air-conditioning we offer in every ZED home. • no chemicals for treating water for drinking, or for swimming pools, or for water-proofing compounds at time of construction.

10. no toxic paints for walls / metal / wood surfaces. • nearly no plastering and paints for external surfaces. • no diesel for gensets beyond up to about 30% of the fuel need. The • rest 70 % is renewable energy or bio-fuels.

11. We use only LEDs for external lights; not even CFLs are used for external lighting. • only solar-based or other hybrids for external lighting, • no reliance on either grid power or gensets for such campus lighting. • No pure cement used, only composites.

12. Costs us same as regular building • Our customer price line is same, even less when competition is fierce • Customers save 70% on energy bills • They never suffer water shortage • Their monthly campus maintenance cost is 35% less than regular apartments

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