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2) Travel to the centre will be encouraged through sustainable methods like biking (bike racks) and public transit (bus stops).
3) Native plants and materials like timber will be used to reduce environmental impact and encourage local wildlife.
The Earthship Project is a nonprofit organization that provides resources and education for building earthships - passive solar homes made of natural and recycled materials like tires and rammed earth. Created by architect Michael Reynolds in the 1970s, earthships are defined by principles like solar heating/cooling, renewable energy, water harvesting, and food production. The project aims to make earthships more accessible and sustainable by identifying globally available "building blocks" like mycelium, bagasse, or bamboo that reduce the energy needed to transport materials over long distances.
This document outlines a plan to establish national eco-centres in the UK focused on sustainable forestry, agriculture, and renewable energy. The eco-centres would provide jobs, training, and income from products like bamboo, biofuels, and locally-sourced food and goods. They would also offer eco-lodges, tourism, and conferences to further generate income while promoting environmental stewardship. The plan aims to make the UK more self-sufficient through reforestation and modern sustainable farming techniques.
The document proposes establishing rooftop gardens at the Railway Station in Dunedin, New Zealand to demonstrate the environmental, social, and economic benefits of urban agriculture. Key points:
1) Rooftop gardens can provide local food production, increase energy efficiency of buildings, reduce stormwater and heat absorption, and beautify urban landscapes.
2) The proposed gardens would incubate new technologies and designs for global markets while enriching the local community.
3) There is increasing global demand for sustainable urban agriculture solutions that address issues like resource use, health, and livability. The rooftop gardens could help meet this demand by developing products and services.
FYS 158: California Drought 2014 - HernandezRuben Mendoza
California is experiencing its worst drought in 500 years, with snowpack levels less than 20% of normal, threatening food production and water supply for over 60 million people expected to live there by 2025. The snowpack typically provides about 1/3 of water for homes and farms as it melts, but with the drought, alternative solutions like the Carlsbad Desalination Project set to provide about 10% of the region's annual water needs starting in late 2015 will be necessary.
The document summarizes CSUMB's efforts to increase sustainability through their Climate Action Plan. The plan establishes baseline data, recommends action steps like installing solar panels and water refill stations, and completed projects to reduce waste and use renewable energy. It encourages students to get involved in sustainability initiatives on campus.
The first in a series of fall term 2014 presentations by the students of FYS 158 (First Year Seminar: Archaeology of Sustainability) on the topic of sustainability.
FYS 158: Pros and Cons of Recycling - Castillo / HernandezRuben Mendoza
The first in a series of fall term 2014 presentations by the students of FYS 158 (First Year Seminar: Archaeology of Sustainability) on the topic of sustainability.
The document discusses sustainable concepts for a Discovery Centre being designed for Wentworth Point, including:
1) The Discovery Centre will encourage sustainability through the use of renewable energy (solar panels), water collection (water tanks), and waste management (compost bins, worm farms, and chicken coops).
2) Travel to the centre will be encouraged through sustainable methods like biking (bike racks) and public transit (bus stops).
3) Native plants and materials like timber will be used to reduce environmental impact and encourage local wildlife.
The Earthship Project is a nonprofit organization that provides resources and education for building earthships - passive solar homes made of natural and recycled materials like tires and rammed earth. Created by architect Michael Reynolds in the 1970s, earthships are defined by principles like solar heating/cooling, renewable energy, water harvesting, and food production. The project aims to make earthships more accessible and sustainable by identifying globally available "building blocks" like mycelium, bagasse, or bamboo that reduce the energy needed to transport materials over long distances.
This document outlines a plan to establish national eco-centres in the UK focused on sustainable forestry, agriculture, and renewable energy. The eco-centres would provide jobs, training, and income from products like bamboo, biofuels, and locally-sourced food and goods. They would also offer eco-lodges, tourism, and conferences to further generate income while promoting environmental stewardship. The plan aims to make the UK more self-sufficient through reforestation and modern sustainable farming techniques.
The document proposes establishing rooftop gardens at the Railway Station in Dunedin, New Zealand to demonstrate the environmental, social, and economic benefits of urban agriculture. Key points:
1) Rooftop gardens can provide local food production, increase energy efficiency of buildings, reduce stormwater and heat absorption, and beautify urban landscapes.
2) The proposed gardens would incubate new technologies and designs for global markets while enriching the local community.
3) There is increasing global demand for sustainable urban agriculture solutions that address issues like resource use, health, and livability. The rooftop gardens could help meet this demand by developing products and services.
FYS 158: California Drought 2014 - HernandezRuben Mendoza
California is experiencing its worst drought in 500 years, with snowpack levels less than 20% of normal, threatening food production and water supply for over 60 million people expected to live there by 2025. The snowpack typically provides about 1/3 of water for homes and farms as it melts, but with the drought, alternative solutions like the Carlsbad Desalination Project set to provide about 10% of the region's annual water needs starting in late 2015 will be necessary.
The document summarizes CSUMB's efforts to increase sustainability through their Climate Action Plan. The plan establishes baseline data, recommends action steps like installing solar panels and water refill stations, and completed projects to reduce waste and use renewable energy. It encourages students to get involved in sustainability initiatives on campus.
The first in a series of fall term 2014 presentations by the students of FYS 158 (First Year Seminar: Archaeology of Sustainability) on the topic of sustainability.
FYS 158: Pros and Cons of Recycling - Castillo / HernandezRuben Mendoza
The first in a series of fall term 2014 presentations by the students of FYS 158 (First Year Seminar: Archaeology of Sustainability) on the topic of sustainability.
The book Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart argues that current models of production are unsustainable and proposes a new framework called "cradle to cradle" design. It criticizes approaches focused on environmentalism, efficiency and recycling, arguing they are superficial and do not address root problems. Instead, it advocates redesigning industry and products according to nature's model of nutrient cycles so that all materials are either technical or biological nutrients that can be reused or composted. The book calls for moving away from standardized, disposable design towards diversity and local solutions that respect cultural and environmental differences.
This is a PowerPoint Presentation on RENEWABLE AND NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES for more presentations like this go to the website https://priyanshpowerpoint.tech/ and download more presentations like that just by a click for free safely for your favourite topic for school purposes or for official purposes which are are going to be very presentable and creative.
Permaculture: Cooperation, Climate Change and Peak Debt Garden2bounty
This document discusses permaculture and climate change solutions. It proposes a "10,000 Trees" planetary permaculture strategy to address climate change through increasing carbon sinks like trees and soil. Permaculture is presented as a movement working on sustainability through cooperation and design principles like earth care, fair share, and people care. Related movements discussed include transition towns, natural sequence farming, and organic farming. The document outlines permaculture applications in areas like urban food, schools, and broad-acre farming as well as permaculture networks and institutions around the world.
The document discusses various aspects of sustainability including how it is measured, current problems, and differences between rich and poor nations. It focuses on issues like population growth, consumption patterns, housing needs, and reducing impacts on natural resources. Key topics covered include alternative energies, holistic engineering approaches, recycling, and the need for new materials, production methods and education to build sustainable housing more efficiently worldwide.
Crystal Cove was founded on diamond mining but declined due to depleted mines and environmental damage. The city became polluted and unprofitable, causing residents to leave. A restoration plan aims to replant trees, clean up pollution in air and water, use sustainable energy like solar and wind, and build green homes. The new city design focuses on energy efficiency and eco-friendliness.
Natural capital refers to the resources available for human exploitation including renewable, replenishable, and non-renewable resources found in the biosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. Renewable resources like timber can be replaced through natural processes like photosynthesis, while replenishable resources like solar energy are continually replaced through abiotic processes. Non-renewable resources like fossil fuels cannot be naturally replaced within human timescales. Sustainable development aims to meet current needs without compromising future generations by limiting use of non-renewables and switching to renewables. However, there is debate around balancing environmental, economic, and social factors.
This document provides an overview of sustainability and moving environmental protection beyond scarcity. It discusses sustainability as not being a destination but rather a direction of transitioning to long-term thinking, an economy integrated with nature, and seeing environmental, social and economic challenges as interconnected. It also summarizes several major sustainability frameworks such as ecological footprinting, biomimicry, industrial ecology and others. Finally, it questions if scarcity is an inevitable condition and explores viewing sustainability through a lens of abundance rather than scarcity.
This is the PowerPoint presentation I used to teach elementary and junior high students about renewable energy. I recommend at least 90 minutes for the presentation, in order to get the most participation and discussion out of the classroom.
Global warming is a slow rise in Earth's surface temperature caused by burning fossil fuels which release polluting gases. Deforestation contributes to global warming by reducing the number of trees that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Various human activities like transportation and electricity production also impact global warming by producing greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming will force changes in agriculture, tourism, and human health by increasing temperatures and weather variability worldwide. It is important for businesses to recognize and plan for the challenges of climate change.
This workshop is a practical and interactive journey to learn how to create an innovative solution starting from an existing need, keeping sustainability criteria on the forefront. Some things in life can be almost as easy as ABC and so is the tool presented: it is called ABCD.
ABCD stands for the four phases of the tool. In the (A) ‘Awareness phase’, we understand the need, the context, the current solution and its dynamics. In the (B) ‘Baseline assessment phase’, we look at today’s reality by analyzing where violations of the principles for sustainability occur by the current solution. On the basis of this, we get to work in the (C) ‘Create solutions phase’. By digging into the problem, we identify potential solutions. In the (D) ‘Decide on priorities phase’ we evaluate the ideas developed in (C), prioritize them and think of how our solution looks like in the most basic form.
Together we will tackle a real-life challenge of housing in a village in Burkina Faso. Because of deforestation and climate change, there is no wood available anymore for traditional housing. People are forced to live in low-quality, badly insulated and unsafe houses for which the materials deprive them from much-needed money for schooling, health and food. During the workshop we will apply the ABCD-tool together on this challenge. Also, there will be time to apply the tool in each team on the team’s challenge.
This document discusses sustainable development and related topics. It provides background on sustainable development, defining it as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It also discusses the three pillars of sustainable development: environmental protection, economic growth, and social inclusion. Additionally, it addresses issues like climate change, energy demand, water shortages, and poverty in relation to achieving global sustainable development.
Natural capital refers to the resources available for human exploitation including those in the biosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. Some natural capital such as timber and food crops is renewable as it can regenerate quickly through natural processes like photosynthesis. Other resources like solar and geothermal energy are replenishable through abiotic processes. Fossil fuels and minerals are non-renewable as they cannot be replaced within human timescales. Natural capital provides both goods like timber and services like climate stabilization. Sustainability requires balancing the exploitation of renewable resources with their regeneration rates to ensure their availability for future generations.
Recycle Everything - Why We Must, How We CanJanet Unruh
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The document summarizes key aspects of the scientific method and environmental science. It discusses how scientists test ideas through observation, hypothesis formation, experimentation, and peer review. The scientific method aims to systematically test hypotheses to build theories that can explain natural phenomena. Environmental ethics examines human relationships with the natural world from anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric perspectives. Sustainability seeks to meet environmental, economic, and social goals by limiting humanity's impact on Earth to ensure resources for future generations. The document concludes that applying science and finding balanced solutions can help address environmental problems and move society toward greater health, longevity, peace, and prosperity.
This document discusses the relationship between climate and culture in three parts:
1. Climate has historically influenced culture through seasonal rituals and spiritual traditions and shaped cultures through unpredictable weather.
2. The rise of the industrial revolution increased greenhouse gas emissions and began changing the climate, which slowly changed the way people live.
3. Addressing climate change raises issues of inequality and injustice between developed and developing nations in terms of energy exploitation and adaptation efforts. Individual actions like reducing energy use and waste can help mitigate the problem.
Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainabilty Garden2bounty
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This document discusses water pollution and plastic pollution. It covers several key points:
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2) Plastic pollution is a major problem, as plastic does not biodegrade and most plastic is not recycled. A large amount of plastic waste ends up in oceans, forming garbage patches like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
3) Plastics are made from polymers that may leach harmful chemicals when heated or degraded. While recycling is promoted, most plastic is actually downcycled into lower quality products rather
The document summarizes CSUMB's efforts to increase sustainability through their Climate Action Plan. The plan establishes baseline data, recommends action steps like installing solar panels and water refill stations, and completed projects to reduce waste and use renewable energy. It encourages students to get involved in sustainability initiatives on campus.
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1. Peter Cavallaro & Mikaela Bogdan
FYS Archaeology of Sustainability
Mendoza
2. • Past civilizations thought they were being
sustainable
• Many of those past civilizations failed
• Now we’re facing the same predicament
• We need to find ways to be more
sustainable
3. • Deforestation
• Shifting cultivation methods of agriculture
• Overpopulation
• Overexploitation of resources
4. • Took labor from agriculture to erect
buildings to their gods.
• Used technology for only one purpose
• Didn’t question assumptions or premises
5. • Acute environmental impact from mine waste, weed
control, lack of forest management
• Climate change (hotter, drier) agriculture relies on runoff
irrigation from ice caps
• Devotion to logging, mines, agriculture, and little/no gov’t
regulation
6. • Alternative energy
sources
• Relying on only a few,
nonrenewable,
polluting resources
• Going along with
assumptions and
premises
7. • Water Conservation
• Agriculture
• Domestic
• Commercial
• Selective
harvesting/patchwork
clear cutting
• Recycling
• Alternative energy
sources
8. • “Confines of a normal
problem solving do not
always lead to the best
answers and might even
blind us to the
consequences of our
actions.” (Archaeology
matters)
• We need to be regularly
questioning assumptions
and premises and not just
accept them as fact.
(Archaeology Matters)
• We can’t use certain
resources and technology
for only one purpose
(Archaeology Matters)
9. • Thinking Long-term
• Using conservation
methods that work
• Utilizing
archaeological
research to
discover methods
of sustainability