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Robert Noble (Noble Environmental Technologies CEO)
San Diego, United States
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Founder and Chairman of Noble Environmental Technologies. He is also an architect, environmental designer, industrial designer, and environmental technology entrepreneur. Over his career building sustainability-driven enterprises, he has been awarded Entrepreneur Magazine’s Environmental Innovator of the Year, the American Lung Association of California Clean Air Award,the Edison Award and many others.
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Technology that purifies the living environment
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“The future city that I want to see has purity in it. I mean on every level and purity of all the things that we contact with.”
- I think waste management is a long-standing problem that we have addressed. But when and who came up with ECOR or a similar idea first, and how long did it take to realize this concept?
Robert :
There's no clear starting point. ECOR is not one idea, it’s thousand ideas over decades. These things cannot come about unless as an individual you commit to a certain distance vision and you stay true to it for decades.
It takes a really long time because only then can you have spent the thinking and feeling time required to even be receptive to the opportunities that come across. You …show more content…
I was fascinated with the notion of the connection between buildings and nature in every way. Their connection with the sun that you could heat and cool building with no mechanical equipment and no burning of fossil fuels. That you could just use the Sun and the Earth together to modulate temperate in a building. What a concept. Also, I read a lot about Frankly Wright. He called his works “the nature of materials” and he looked to respect natural materials for their inherent characteristics and also what they could become when they are subject to the mind of the
Robert Noble (Noble Environmental Technologies CEO)
San Diego, United States
プロフィール
Founder and Chairman of Noble Environmental Technologies. He is also an architect, environmental designer, industrial designer, and environmental technology entrepreneur. Over his career building sustainability-driven enterprises, he has been awarded Entrepreneur Magazine’s Environmental Innovator of the Year, the American Lung Association of California Clean Air Award,the Edison Award and many others.
タイトル
Technology that purifies the living environment
lead 1
“The future city that I want to see has purity in it. I mean on every level and purity of all the things that we contact with.”
- I think waste management is a long-standing problem that we have addressed. But when and who came up with ECOR or a similar idea first, and how long did it take to realize this concept?
Robert :
There's no clear starting point. ECOR is not one idea, it’s thousand ideas over decades. These things cannot come about unless as an individual you commit to a certain distance vision and you stay true to it for decades.
It takes a really long time because only then can you have spent the thinking and feeling time required to even be receptive to the opportunities that come across. You …show more content…
I was fascinated with the notion of the connection between buildings and nature in every way. Their connection with the sun that you could heat and cool building with no mechanical equipment and no burning of fossil fuels. That you could just use the Sun and the Earth together to modulate temperate in a building. What a concept. Also, I read a lot about Frankly Wright. He called his works “the nature of materials” and he looked to respect natural materials for their inherent characteristics and also what they could become when they are subject to the mind of the