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Time, choice and sustainable development | Dr Daniel Irurah | TEDxJoburgNorth

1,766 views · Published 8 August 2009 · 17:00 · Indexed 14 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2009 · Education

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Dr Daniel Irurah is a Kenyan architect with specialisation in sustainability and the built environment. With research and consultancy interests focused on developing countries, Daniels core interest is the understanding and applied resolution to the dilemma of achieving socio-economic development for the majority within the tightening eco-limits of our planet.

Although his main area of interest is energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings and cities, he is also intensely engaged in the field of industrial ecology for the construction industry, and especially the cradle-to-grave-and-cradle cycle of construction materials. Daniels key interests in these fields is the coupling of green innovations to socio-economic development priorities such as jobs/skills and eco-entrepreneurship.

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