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He also emphasised the importance of creating a "humane and friendly world" by design. He has left us two housing estates in Denmark that challenge THEgrid's precedence three generations on.
In his own way MICHAEL MOBBS for 30 or so years has lived at the edge of the possible and planning authorities have been looking away because he gave them no other choice but so to do.
Dare to ask an ensconced planner to consider the exemplar Mobbs offers on larger scale and they'll wish you the best of luck as they reiterate this rule, and that regulation. While they do that, they'll espouse their own potted rhetoric typically in support of the status quo.
As it turns out all this tells you about the possibility of there being no change. There is some wisdom that resonates here and it tells all who will listen that the best way to discover how something works is to repair it, modify it or repurpose it.
If there is no fundamental change, the future is what we are doing in our lives in the present. As dystopian practices, what we are doing will become increasingly evident.
Empires and the bureaucratic thinkers foster the idea that they are secure in their positioning. Nonetheless, they are always blighted by the hubristic thinking that they are indestructible.
The facts are that empires are always unsustainable and that all will crumble in time. The cynical plan of some EMPIREbuilders being, not being present at the time.
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Jorn Utzon who designed Sydney's Opera House and MICHAEL MOBBS in their own quiet ways share theINCREMENTALITYmessage that acknowledges that when something needs to be achieved it is usually best done incrementally. The STATUSquoist who talk down change will talk long and hard about the unachievability of change, NETzero, zeroWASTE, whatever, always assuming that change needs revolution. Sometimes it does but not always!
Nelson Mandella was told that he could not do anything to end APARTHEID but as his friend Desmond Tutu said it is like eating an elephant it can be done 'one-bite-at-a-time' and it was so, and the people changed what needed changing... Umbutu... I am because we are; we are because you are, this was part of their cultural DNA.
Approximately 500,000 people (roughly 2%) of Australia's population, live in off-grid locations, mostly in regional and remote areas, according to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). While many live off-grid by choice for self-sufficiency, others in remote areas rely on it as a necessity.
As of early 2026, over 4.3 million homes and small businesses in Australia have installed rooftop solar panels, with solar now gracing nearly one in three (approximately 39.55%) of all Australian homes. These systems allow residents to generate all or part of their own energy requirements.
Official and comprehensive data relative to the number of Tasmanians living completely off-grid off-grid is unavailable. However, there inforation available shows that the trend is growing, with off-grid solar installations in Tasmania rising by 47% since 2024.
The technology exists and the means to live autonomously is readily available, so the question hanging is why are Australian planners and developers so reluctant to proactively plan for autonomous housing given the need do so? Indeed, why is this so?
Michael Mobbs has led by example and he and his family have incrementally withdrawn their dependance upon THEgrid in inner urban Sydney for 30 years. Here in Launceston Ian Norton [1] [2] an ex-councillor has been living off grid 45 years and relying accessible tchnology to do so.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change...Confucius
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