This was the Final Project for the Principles of Sustainable Design class. We were asked to address any issue we considered to need a more sustainable approach
The document presents a case study of the Haulage Management System (HMS) implemented at Impoma Haulage Company. The HMS automates the company's processes for managing vehicles, drivers, customers and transportation requests. It addresses problems with the previous manual system, such as difficulties tracking vehicles and scheduling routes. The system architecture and use cases are described, along with functional and non-functional requirements. A demonstration shows the system performing key functions for users. In conclusion, the HMS successfully addresses the needs that existed prior to its development.
This document summarizes a thesis that evaluated the Sustainable Prisons Project (SPP), which brings science and sustainability education to prisons. The thesis used interviews and surveys of offenders and staff from 4 Washington state prisons to examine if SPP programs shared characteristics with effective rehabilitation programs and the significance of science/sustainability education. Results from 25 offender and 12 staff interviews suggested SPP projects foster environmental stewardship and influence emotional health. This may improve offender quality of life and contribute to rehabilitation outcomes by reducing recidivism. The thesis provides context on SPP, effective rehabilitation programs, and how programs using plants/animals have promise for rehabilitation.
On the Support of a Similarity-Enabled Relational Database Management System ...Universidade de São Paulo
Crowdsourcing solutions can be helpful to extract information from disaster-related data during crisis management. However, certain information can only be obtained through similarity operations. Some of them also depend on additional data stored in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). In this context, several works focus on crisis management supported by data. Nevertheless, none of them provides a methodology for employing a similarity-enabled RDBMS in disaster-relief tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce a similarity-enabled methodology together with a supporting architecture named Data-Centric Crisis Management (DCCM), which employs our methods over a RDBMS. We evaluate our proposal through three tasks: classification of incoming data regarding current events, identifying relevant information to guide rescue teams; filtering of incoming data, enhancing the decision support by removing near-duplicate data; and similarity retrieval of historical data, supporting analytical comprehension of the crisis context. To make it possible, similarity-based operations were implemented within one popular, open-source RDBMS. Results using real data from Flickr show that the proposed methodology over DCCM is feasible for real-time applications. In addition to high performance, accurate results were obtained with a proper combination of techniques for each task. At last, given its accuracy and efficiency, we expect our work to provide a framework for further developments on crisis management solutions.
Hennepin County Brookdale Regional Center - High Performance Building Case StudyLoren Abraham
This presentation details the sustainable strategies employed in the Remodeling and Addition for the Hennepin County Brookdale Regional Center, the first major building to be designed according to the Minnesota Sustainable Building Design Guide or B3 requirements.. This High Performance Building Case Study also summarizes the extensive daylighting analysis performed during the design of the project. The $20 Million Government Center houses a 60,000 SF public Library, Social Services Offices, Community Center, Courts facility, and state license service center. This project has won numersous awards and has been acclaimed as one of the best examples of daylighting in a public library in the US by library experts.
Social Media and Behaviour Change - Case Studiesderekfoster
Presented at the University of Lincoln's 'Sustainable Air Travel, Behaviour Change and Social Media' workshop: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/engineering/Research/AETN/flyer_FINAL.PDF
The document discusses several case studies of library reorganization projects:
- The King Abdullah University Science and Technology campus library project in Saudi Arabia which organized spaces by level for different functions.
- A reorganization of the Long Island University library to create an information commons with collaborative spaces.
- A reorganization of Duquesne University's library to improve student study spaces and create a learning commons on the 4th and 5th floors.
- A study of efficiencies at the Las Vegas Clark County Library District including self check-out and reduced staffing at circulation desks.
Improving Student Achievement with New Approaches to DataJohn Whitmer, Ed.D.
Presentation delivered at WASC ARC conference on April 11, 2013 on the CSU Data Dashboard and Chico State Learning Analytics case study.
Chico State Case Study: Academic technologies collect highly detailed student usage data. How can this data be used to understand and predict student performance, especially of at-risk students? This presentation will discuss research on a high-enrollment undergraduate course exploring the relationship between LMS activity, student background characteristics, current enrollment information, and student achievement.
CSU Data Dashboard: By monitoring on-track indicators institutional leaders can better understand not only which milestones students are failing to reach, but why they are not reaching them. It can also help campuses to design interventions or policy changes to increase student success and to gauge the impact of interventions.
The document presents a case study of the Haulage Management System (HMS) implemented at Impoma Haulage Company. The HMS automates the company's processes for managing vehicles, drivers, customers and transportation requests. It addresses problems with the previous manual system, such as difficulties tracking vehicles and scheduling routes. The system architecture and use cases are described, along with functional and non-functional requirements. A demonstration shows the system performing key functions for users. In conclusion, the HMS successfully addresses the needs that existed prior to its development.
This document summarizes a thesis that evaluated the Sustainable Prisons Project (SPP), which brings science and sustainability education to prisons. The thesis used interviews and surveys of offenders and staff from 4 Washington state prisons to examine if SPP programs shared characteristics with effective rehabilitation programs and the significance of science/sustainability education. Results from 25 offender and 12 staff interviews suggested SPP projects foster environmental stewardship and influence emotional health. This may improve offender quality of life and contribute to rehabilitation outcomes by reducing recidivism. The thesis provides context on SPP, effective rehabilitation programs, and how programs using plants/animals have promise for rehabilitation.
On the Support of a Similarity-Enabled Relational Database Management System ...Universidade de São Paulo
Crowdsourcing solutions can be helpful to extract information from disaster-related data during crisis management. However, certain information can only be obtained through similarity operations. Some of them also depend on additional data stored in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). In this context, several works focus on crisis management supported by data. Nevertheless, none of them provides a methodology for employing a similarity-enabled RDBMS in disaster-relief tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce a similarity-enabled methodology together with a supporting architecture named Data-Centric Crisis Management (DCCM), which employs our methods over a RDBMS. We evaluate our proposal through three tasks: classification of incoming data regarding current events, identifying relevant information to guide rescue teams; filtering of incoming data, enhancing the decision support by removing near-duplicate data; and similarity retrieval of historical data, supporting analytical comprehension of the crisis context. To make it possible, similarity-based operations were implemented within one popular, open-source RDBMS. Results using real data from Flickr show that the proposed methodology over DCCM is feasible for real-time applications. In addition to high performance, accurate results were obtained with a proper combination of techniques for each task. At last, given its accuracy and efficiency, we expect our work to provide a framework for further developments on crisis management solutions.
Hennepin County Brookdale Regional Center - High Performance Building Case StudyLoren Abraham
This presentation details the sustainable strategies employed in the Remodeling and Addition for the Hennepin County Brookdale Regional Center, the first major building to be designed according to the Minnesota Sustainable Building Design Guide or B3 requirements.. This High Performance Building Case Study also summarizes the extensive daylighting analysis performed during the design of the project. The $20 Million Government Center houses a 60,000 SF public Library, Social Services Offices, Community Center, Courts facility, and state license service center. This project has won numersous awards and has been acclaimed as one of the best examples of daylighting in a public library in the US by library experts.
Social Media and Behaviour Change - Case Studiesderekfoster
Presented at the University of Lincoln's 'Sustainable Air Travel, Behaviour Change and Social Media' workshop: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/engineering/Research/AETN/flyer_FINAL.PDF
The document discusses several case studies of library reorganization projects:
- The King Abdullah University Science and Technology campus library project in Saudi Arabia which organized spaces by level for different functions.
- A reorganization of the Long Island University library to create an information commons with collaborative spaces.
- A reorganization of Duquesne University's library to improve student study spaces and create a learning commons on the 4th and 5th floors.
- A study of efficiencies at the Las Vegas Clark County Library District including self check-out and reduced staffing at circulation desks.
Improving Student Achievement with New Approaches to DataJohn Whitmer, Ed.D.
Presentation delivered at WASC ARC conference on April 11, 2013 on the CSU Data Dashboard and Chico State Learning Analytics case study.
Chico State Case Study: Academic technologies collect highly detailed student usage data. How can this data be used to understand and predict student performance, especially of at-risk students? This presentation will discuss research on a high-enrollment undergraduate course exploring the relationship between LMS activity, student background characteristics, current enrollment information, and student achievement.
CSU Data Dashboard: By monitoring on-track indicators institutional leaders can better understand not only which milestones students are failing to reach, but why they are not reaching them. It can also help campuses to design interventions or policy changes to increase student success and to gauge the impact of interventions.
Atkins won a design competition to build a five-star resort hotel within a quarry near Shanghai, China. Its concept designs inspired by the quarry's natural features impressed judges. The innovative 400-bed hotel design rises two levels above the 100-meter deep quarry and includes underwater areas and rooms. It will also feature conference space for 1,000 people, dining, and sports facilities, incorporating sustainability throughout the design.
Illinois Governor's Commission on Community Safety and Reentry Commission and Working Group: Report by the Housing Subcommittee, October 6, 2005; www.dhs.state.il.us/reentry/
The MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore was designed by Architecture Paradigm Pvt Ltd to include facilities like an auditorium, banquet hall, conference rooms, and guest rooms. The building makes use of different levels and structures to organize its various functions and accommodate services. While the overall arrangement of spaces and utilization of the site is well designed, some aspects of the parking, fire safety, and service areas could be improved.
Curriculum and Instructional Design for Online and Distance Learning Environm...Nicola Marae Allain, PhD
The Center for Distance Learning (CDL) at the State University of New York offers online courses and degree programs to over 100,000 students annually. CDL uses a team-based approach to course design that incorporates best practices in online pedagogy and visual instructional methods. Courses are developed using a rigorous approval process and focus on active, collaborative learning through case studies, simulations, and library resources to promote deep learning.
DMACC Ankeny Campus Student & Recreational Center_RDGRenee Thomas
This document summarizes an expansion project for Des Moines Area Community College's Student Activity Center. The expansion added almost 200,000 square feet including new fitness facilities, an indoor aquatic center, meeting spaces, and student support areas. The lighting and building systems were designed to be energy efficient, with LED lighting sources and controls to exceed energy code by 40%. Diagrams and photos show the new interior and exterior spaces.
The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflectionSten Govaerts
The document summarizes research on the Student Activity Meter (SAM), a tool to provide awareness of student activity for self-monitoring and teaching purposes. Through iterative design and evaluations, SAM was found to enable detection of students doing well/at risk, provide course overviews, understand time spent, and find new insights. Visualizations were powerful for awareness but real-world settings and tracking data were challenges. Overall, SAM contributed to better awareness and was perceived as useful.
Greening of Corrections: Creating a Sustainable System
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
The document discusses connected prisons and innovations in the criminal justice system. It describes how players in a game generated ideas like using distance education and games in prisons to rehabilitate prisoners and better reintegrate them into society. The players suggested using achievements in education to shorten prison sentences and having prisoners address local problems through games. The document also highlights current examples of prisoner education programs and sustainable prison projects that signal potential future innovations.
G 9 art 1st grading classical art architectureDang de Leon
This document discusses classical art architecture from prehistoric to Gothic periods. It describes three types of megalithic structures from the prehistoric era: menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs. It then covers Egyptian architecture including pyramids at Giza and temples aligned with astronomical events. Greek architecture featured three orders of columns. Roman architecture utilized arches, vaults and concrete. Byzantine architecture advanced the dome design seen in Hagia Sophia. Romanesque architecture displayed rounded arches and vaults while Gothic introduced pointed arches and ribbed vaults seen in cathedrals like Chartres.
The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflectionSten Govaerts
These slides present the iterative design and evaluation the student activity meter.
Presented for students of the KULeuven CHI course of prof. Erik Duval.
This document provides details about the campus expansion plans for IIIT Delhi. It discusses:
- The existing 40 acre campus includes academic buildings, a library, dining hall, and hostels. Phase II plans include a new academic block, auditorium, and research centers to increase enrollment to 1600 students.
- The master plan zones the campus into areas for faculty housing, sports facilities, and student hostels connected by academic buildings and a dining facility.
- Expansion plans cover the whole site while maintaining discrete areas for housing and hostels. Infrastructure includes two service buildings, pedestrian paths, and independent access roads.
- Key existing and planned buildings discussed include the administration block, library building, student activity center
The executive summary (Service Management_4th semester)David Engelby
This document provides guidance on writing executive summaries. It explains that an executive summary is a short introduction to a larger document that allows readers to quickly understand the key points without reading the entire document. The document outlines how to structure an executive summary, including stating the purpose and aims, summarizing the results and recommendations, and briefly describing the methodology. It also provides tips for writing executive summaries, such as keeping them to one page or less and writing them after completing the full document to ensure accurate representation. Graphical elements and a logical structure with bullet points and subtitles are recommended to improve readability. Executive summaries can also be used to introduce proposals by summarizing basic research and arguments.
This document provides an overview of the scope and features of a School Management System created by Eximius Infotech Pvt. Ltd. The system aims to optimize and manage all key processes within a school, including student registration, library management, timetables, transportation, fees collection, attendance tracking, communication tools, human resources, and financial accounting. It consists of several comprehensive modules that cover areas like student information, courses/syllabus management, inventory, canteen operations, and more. The system is designed to be fully web-based with role-based access and customized dashboards for different user types like administrators, teachers, students and parents.
The document discusses the concept of constructive alignment in learning, teaching and assessment. Constructive alignment means that the intended learning outcomes, teaching methods, and assessment tasks are aligned and designed to help students achieve the intended outcomes. The key points are:
- Intended learning outcomes should be expressed as action verbs describing what students will be able to do.
- Teaching and learning activities should engage students in enacting those verbs to help them achieve the outcomes.
- Assessment tasks should provide opportunities for students to demonstrate if they have achieved the outcomes and at what level, by requiring them to perform the verbs.
Software Engineering Project On School Management System. its Presentation .Data flow diagram , use case diagram of SMS , class diagram of school management system , functional and non-functional requirements
Download completer BS Computer Science Degree Study Data
http://studyofcs.blogspot.com/p/bs.html
The document discusses what makes a building "smart" from an architectural point of view. It states that a smart building is a sustainable building that senses its environment, reacts efficiently and interacts with people. It discusses the various stakeholders' perspectives on smart buildings and how choices in building systems ensure buildings continue meeting changing needs.
This document summarizes a presentation about energy use research projects. It discusses:
1) The Energy Biographies project, a large qualitative study exploring how people use energy in everyday life. It generated new understanding of how energy use is patterned across individuals' lives.
2) The Flexis project, which will build on Energy Biographies to understand how proposed new flexible energy systems may impact people's lives, and help shape policy responses.
3) Current Flexis case studies exploring public responses to socio-technical changes in energy in communities in Wales.
The presentation argues social science research is needed to anticipate how people may respond to new energy innovations, to
Improved lighting can help the UK’s ageing population enjoy their lives, improve their health and avoid some of distressing conditions of old age. Lighting solutions and technologies are often more cost-effective than drug-based treatments. You will see through this presentation how well-designed lighting can lead to improved health and alertness – and how we might push the issue up the health agenda.
Talk by Carl Gardner, CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd
The document outlines key topics related to environmentalism including environmental education, careers, consumerism, activism, and sustainability. It discusses the importance of educating the public about the environment, opportunities in environmental fields, examining consumption and reducing impacts, approaches to activism, and analyzing sustainability on both local and global scales.
Creative Solutions for Today's Educational Facilities' Needs - KobetMeg Thompson
The document summarizes a presentation about maintaining high performance schools. It discusses:
1) Ensuring schools are compatible with emerging trends, priorities, and changing views of education. Maintaining schools is important for student performance, attendance, teacher satisfaction, and operating costs.
2) Studies show green schools improve health, with better ventilation reducing illness and daylighting leading to test score gains of 5-18%.
3) A school district in New York was able to reduce energy usage and costs through engagement and behavior changes, achieving savings without capital investment.
A course developed for the AIA CES program demonstrating the problems presented with electric light along with how new lighting technologies can be modified to promote better health.
Atkins won a design competition to build a five-star resort hotel within a quarry near Shanghai, China. Its concept designs inspired by the quarry's natural features impressed judges. The innovative 400-bed hotel design rises two levels above the 100-meter deep quarry and includes underwater areas and rooms. It will also feature conference space for 1,000 people, dining, and sports facilities, incorporating sustainability throughout the design.
Illinois Governor's Commission on Community Safety and Reentry Commission and Working Group: Report by the Housing Subcommittee, October 6, 2005; www.dhs.state.il.us/reentry/
The MLR Convention Centre in Bangalore was designed by Architecture Paradigm Pvt Ltd to include facilities like an auditorium, banquet hall, conference rooms, and guest rooms. The building makes use of different levels and structures to organize its various functions and accommodate services. While the overall arrangement of spaces and utilization of the site is well designed, some aspects of the parking, fire safety, and service areas could be improved.
Curriculum and Instructional Design for Online and Distance Learning Environm...Nicola Marae Allain, PhD
The Center for Distance Learning (CDL) at the State University of New York offers online courses and degree programs to over 100,000 students annually. CDL uses a team-based approach to course design that incorporates best practices in online pedagogy and visual instructional methods. Courses are developed using a rigorous approval process and focus on active, collaborative learning through case studies, simulations, and library resources to promote deep learning.
DMACC Ankeny Campus Student & Recreational Center_RDGRenee Thomas
This document summarizes an expansion project for Des Moines Area Community College's Student Activity Center. The expansion added almost 200,000 square feet including new fitness facilities, an indoor aquatic center, meeting spaces, and student support areas. The lighting and building systems were designed to be energy efficient, with LED lighting sources and controls to exceed energy code by 40%. Diagrams and photos show the new interior and exterior spaces.
The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflectionSten Govaerts
The document summarizes research on the Student Activity Meter (SAM), a tool to provide awareness of student activity for self-monitoring and teaching purposes. Through iterative design and evaluations, SAM was found to enable detection of students doing well/at risk, provide course overviews, understand time spent, and find new insights. Visualizations were powerful for awareness but real-world settings and tracking data were challenges. Overall, SAM contributed to better awareness and was perceived as useful.
Greening of Corrections: Creating a Sustainable System
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
The document discusses connected prisons and innovations in the criminal justice system. It describes how players in a game generated ideas like using distance education and games in prisons to rehabilitate prisoners and better reintegrate them into society. The players suggested using achievements in education to shorten prison sentences and having prisoners address local problems through games. The document also highlights current examples of prisoner education programs and sustainable prison projects that signal potential future innovations.
G 9 art 1st grading classical art architectureDang de Leon
This document discusses classical art architecture from prehistoric to Gothic periods. It describes three types of megalithic structures from the prehistoric era: menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs. It then covers Egyptian architecture including pyramids at Giza and temples aligned with astronomical events. Greek architecture featured three orders of columns. Roman architecture utilized arches, vaults and concrete. Byzantine architecture advanced the dome design seen in Hagia Sophia. Romanesque architecture displayed rounded arches and vaults while Gothic introduced pointed arches and ribbed vaults seen in cathedrals like Chartres.
The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflectionSten Govaerts
These slides present the iterative design and evaluation the student activity meter.
Presented for students of the KULeuven CHI course of prof. Erik Duval.
This document provides details about the campus expansion plans for IIIT Delhi. It discusses:
- The existing 40 acre campus includes academic buildings, a library, dining hall, and hostels. Phase II plans include a new academic block, auditorium, and research centers to increase enrollment to 1600 students.
- The master plan zones the campus into areas for faculty housing, sports facilities, and student hostels connected by academic buildings and a dining facility.
- Expansion plans cover the whole site while maintaining discrete areas for housing and hostels. Infrastructure includes two service buildings, pedestrian paths, and independent access roads.
- Key existing and planned buildings discussed include the administration block, library building, student activity center
The executive summary (Service Management_4th semester)David Engelby
This document provides guidance on writing executive summaries. It explains that an executive summary is a short introduction to a larger document that allows readers to quickly understand the key points without reading the entire document. The document outlines how to structure an executive summary, including stating the purpose and aims, summarizing the results and recommendations, and briefly describing the methodology. It also provides tips for writing executive summaries, such as keeping them to one page or less and writing them after completing the full document to ensure accurate representation. Graphical elements and a logical structure with bullet points and subtitles are recommended to improve readability. Executive summaries can also be used to introduce proposals by summarizing basic research and arguments.
This document provides an overview of the scope and features of a School Management System created by Eximius Infotech Pvt. Ltd. The system aims to optimize and manage all key processes within a school, including student registration, library management, timetables, transportation, fees collection, attendance tracking, communication tools, human resources, and financial accounting. It consists of several comprehensive modules that cover areas like student information, courses/syllabus management, inventory, canteen operations, and more. The system is designed to be fully web-based with role-based access and customized dashboards for different user types like administrators, teachers, students and parents.
The document discusses the concept of constructive alignment in learning, teaching and assessment. Constructive alignment means that the intended learning outcomes, teaching methods, and assessment tasks are aligned and designed to help students achieve the intended outcomes. The key points are:
- Intended learning outcomes should be expressed as action verbs describing what students will be able to do.
- Teaching and learning activities should engage students in enacting those verbs to help them achieve the outcomes.
- Assessment tasks should provide opportunities for students to demonstrate if they have achieved the outcomes and at what level, by requiring them to perform the verbs.
Software Engineering Project On School Management System. its Presentation .Data flow diagram , use case diagram of SMS , class diagram of school management system , functional and non-functional requirements
Download completer BS Computer Science Degree Study Data
http://studyofcs.blogspot.com/p/bs.html
The document discusses what makes a building "smart" from an architectural point of view. It states that a smart building is a sustainable building that senses its environment, reacts efficiently and interacts with people. It discusses the various stakeholders' perspectives on smart buildings and how choices in building systems ensure buildings continue meeting changing needs.
This document summarizes a presentation about energy use research projects. It discusses:
1) The Energy Biographies project, a large qualitative study exploring how people use energy in everyday life. It generated new understanding of how energy use is patterned across individuals' lives.
2) The Flexis project, which will build on Energy Biographies to understand how proposed new flexible energy systems may impact people's lives, and help shape policy responses.
3) Current Flexis case studies exploring public responses to socio-technical changes in energy in communities in Wales.
The presentation argues social science research is needed to anticipate how people may respond to new energy innovations, to
Improved lighting can help the UK’s ageing population enjoy their lives, improve their health and avoid some of distressing conditions of old age. Lighting solutions and technologies are often more cost-effective than drug-based treatments. You will see through this presentation how well-designed lighting can lead to improved health and alertness – and how we might push the issue up the health agenda.
Talk by Carl Gardner, CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd
The document outlines key topics related to environmentalism including environmental education, careers, consumerism, activism, and sustainability. It discusses the importance of educating the public about the environment, opportunities in environmental fields, examining consumption and reducing impacts, approaches to activism, and analyzing sustainability on both local and global scales.
Creative Solutions for Today's Educational Facilities' Needs - KobetMeg Thompson
The document summarizes a presentation about maintaining high performance schools. It discusses:
1) Ensuring schools are compatible with emerging trends, priorities, and changing views of education. Maintaining schools is important for student performance, attendance, teacher satisfaction, and operating costs.
2) Studies show green schools improve health, with better ventilation reducing illness and daylighting leading to test score gains of 5-18%.
3) A school district in New York was able to reduce energy usage and costs through engagement and behavior changes, achieving savings without capital investment.
A course developed for the AIA CES program demonstrating the problems presented with electric light along with how new lighting technologies can be modified to promote better health.
This document provides information about an energy sustainability workshop on applying The Natural Step framework to not-for-profits. It discusses challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and sustainability. It introduces The Natural Step as a scientific, holistic framework and explains its four system conditions. The workshop covers strategies like systems thinking, learning organizations, and backcasting to create a sustainability action plan. Case studies of Organically Grown Company and the City of Madison, WI are presented that applied The Natural Step approach.
This document outlines an environmental science curriculum that teaches students about key environmental topics through hands-on activities, fieldwork, and service learning. It discusses teaching students about the atmosphere, hydrosphere, soil, energy resources, and waste management. Some example activities include monitoring air and water quality, studying local power plants, composting, and implementing recycling programs. The goal is to promote environmental literacy and critical thinking about complex environmental issues.
Mr. Nikky Kumar Jha, Young Scientist, gave presentation on innovative products for school applications at CII-IGBC's 15th green building congress 2017 event at Jaipur
Transient electronics are biodegradable electronic devices made of materials like magnesium and silk that dissolve harmlessly in water over time. They have applications as medical implants that provide diagnostic functions and dissolve after use, environmental monitors that degrade after a chemical spill, and consumer devices that can be composted to reduce electronic waste. The devices are made using nanomembranes thin enough to enable transistors and diodes but thick enough to control dissolution rates using silk encapsulation. They operate wirelessly using radio frequencies and can be used for applications like treating surgical infections by heating the wound site and dissolving after healing. Transient electronics offer new opportunities for temporary devices that eliminate electronic waste.
This newsletter article summarizes the results of Elon University's tenth annual POWERless energy conservation competition. It notes that during the three-week competition in fall 2013, Elon residents saved 76,590 kWh of energy, enough to power 66 North Carolina homes for a month. The competition divides housing into divisions, and the article lists the first place winners in each division. It also lists the individual residence halls with the greatest energy reductions. A new component of the competition, COMPETE to CONSERVE, involved students competing in small teams for weekly and overall prizes. The first winning team of this competition is also named. The article encourages continued energy savings and provides information on viewing competition results.
This presentation is a 3-hour training to provide information on health and safety concerns in building materials, with a particular focus on high performance and net zero energy strategies. We identify some of the major hazards found in the built environment and how to research safer alternatives to maximize energy efficiency and to protect human health.
Presented on October 24, 2014 for Build It Green in Oakland, California by Cate Leger, Principal, Leger Wanaselja Architecture, and Melanie Loftus, Healthy Materials Consultant.
The document discusses a presentation by the IU South Bend Center for a Sustainable Future on November 4, 2011. It thanks underwriters for sponsoring the event and discusses sustainability challenges facing the planet like climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. It introduces the framework of The Natural Step for achieving sustainability and its four system conditions. The presentation explains how sustainability brings environmental, economic and social considerations into balance and argues that sustainability is both the world's greatest challenge and greatest opportunity.
This document summarizes a webinar on science and sustainability that took place on September 13, 2011. The webinar featured two guest experts, Prof. Dr. Paul Burger from the University of Basel and Dr. Christine Schmitt from the University of Freiburg. They discussed the definition of sustainability, the ecological, economic and social facets of sustainability, examples of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development projects in Ethiopia, Germany, Basel and Freiburg. The webinar concluded with a discussion of future sustainability projects and questions from the audience.
This document summarizes a webinar on science and sustainability that took place on September 13, 2011. The webinar featured two guest experts, Prof. Dr. Paul Burger from the University of Basel and Dr. Christine Schmitt from the University of Freiburg. They discussed the definition of sustainability, the ecological, economic and social facets of sustainability, examples of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development projects in Ethiopia, Germany, Basel and Freiburg. The webinar concluded with a discussion of future sustainability projects and questions from the audience.
Currently, there is a popular theory that connects the risk of developing some cancers, like breast and prostate cancer with nocturnal exposure to blue light. This theory is based on the already well-established connection between the shift work and these cancers, as well the connection between the sleep deprivation and cancer development and the anti-carcinogenic effect of the melatonin. In the talk, Alejandro will explain the last results trying to verify this theory. He will also consider other factors that recommend limiting the massive use of white light outdoors at night, as reinforcement of the precaution principle associated to the potential carcinogenic effect of artificial light at night.
Alejandro's research has hit the headlines and is of huge interest to lighting professionals, health professionals and of course the general public.
by Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, Exeter University
Greening in the Red Zone - Valuing Community-based Ecological Restoration in ...Keith G. Tidball
Presentation given Oct 17, 2012
CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square
Long Island City, NY
11101
A presentation of the
New York City Urban Field Station
Quarterly Research Seminar Series
A partnership between the
USDA Forest Service
and
New York City Department of
Parks and Recreation
This document discusses green information systems (Green IS) and how they can contribute to climate change solutions. It defines Green IS as the development of information systems that provide digital infrastructure for sustainable business processes. Examples include systems that monitor emissions to better manage them, dynamically route vehicles to reduce energy use, and provide consumers information to make green choices. The document advocates for both top-down and bottom-up approaches, and highlights a local community aquaponics garden project supported by modern ICT. Research is presented on how education can shift attitudes from climate change denial to recognizing individual agency to address the problem. The SIGGreen mission and resources for Green IS are outlined.
The document discusses several student projects focused on energy exploration, harnessing, and conservation in Arunachal Pradesh, India. It describes projects related to LED street lighting, utilizing food energy to improve efficiency, designing energy efficient houses, managing solid waste disposal, and enhancing energy efficiency. The projects aim to minimize energy usage, maximize output, and promote sustainable energy practices for future generations through alternative energy sources and improved infrastructure.
The Science & Style of Biophilic Design by Oliver heathRedactie Intogreen
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2. Explanation
This class is all about how we can move towards a sustainable society.
I could not help but think of the saying: a chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. So, to become truly sustainable shouldn’t we consider some
of our society’s weakest links? For this reason I decided to take a look at
today’s prison system.
3. What is it like now?
Prison Population
1.8 million Americans live in Prisons across the
country
More than 170,000 are currently incarcerated in
California
4. What is it like now?
Unsustainable, unsightly structures
Concrete, Steel, hard impermeable surfaces, gloomy cells every aspect of the design
emphasises punishment rather than rehabilitation
Correction agencies want the cheapest cage they can buy. This results in a straightforward,
industrial-like building design
They are eyesores for the surrounding communities but for security reasons it is
necessary for the surrounding landscape to be flat causing it to have even more visual
impact
5. What is it like now?
Huge Costs & Bad Health
Due to bad living conditions and severe overcrowding, medical and mental healthcare
has become substandard.
Nearly 2/3 of inmates in California are substance abusers, yet only about 2% of
them are professionally treated while in prison
The reason for this is lack of funds even though last year 9.7 million was spent on
the prison system, an Average of 35,ooo per prisoner
6. What is it like now?
Overcrowding & lack of work programs
With the use of tough-on-crime mandatory sentencing laws, the prison
population continues to grow and the inability to provide proper
rehabilitation means the recidivism rate is high
In California almost 2/3 of released felons return to prison within 3 years
of being released.
Despite numerous studies showing that education is the most effective
way to reduce recidivism, most prison extension classes have been
abolished. Other forms of job training have shrunk, and although an
estimated 70% of prisoners are illiterate, access to reading materials
and even exercise equipment is increasingly restricted
7. What is being done?
Bastoey Island, Norway: Minimum Security
115 inmates are housed in Bastoey Island low security prison which uses solar
panels for energy, produces most of its own food, recycles everything it can
and tries to reduce its carbon footprint.
Monroe Correctional Complex, Washington: LEED Silver
The Monroe complex received LEED silver certification for its intensive
management unit and segregation unit. The complex achieved sustainable
features points in all six LEED categories
Will Alsop: “Creative Prison”
In collaboration with Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) and
UK prisoners, Will Aslop designed a student housing type prison
with the rehabilitation of the prisoner as the primary objective
9. What could be done?
Design - Site
Electric vehicles for Transportation and maintenance around
the prison grounds and on-site charging station will reduce the
need for fossil fuels
Native and drought resistant plants for landscape foliage reduce
the need for irrigation
Down lighting on the housing units and shaded landscape
lighting, in addition to individually operable Spotlights when
needed, reduce night time light pollution
Vertical Gardens along the exterior of the wall help break up the prison’s
visual impact on the landscape.
10. What could be done?
Design – Housing Unit
Natural light Solar PV panels
Passive solar
heating and cooling
Natural ventilation
11. What could be done?
Management/Programs
The prison should offer a range of activities to prevent boredom amongst the inmates, improve
their personal health and teach them valuable skills
Such activities could be:
• Tending to their housing units Garden
• Keeping bees
•Education
•Learning skills like carpentry,
electrical wiring, etc.
• Being trained for green collar jobs
• Recycling
• Yoga & Exercise
• Work release programs
• Substance abuse treatment
•Behavioural therapy
12. Sustainable Benefits
• Smaller ecological footprint
• Triple Bottom Line Accounting:
Profit: Energy and Labour cost savings
Planet: prisoners are contributing positively to the environment and are
learning valuable skills for sustainable living
People: Improved prisoner health through social interaction, outdoor activities
and less toxic environments
• Instil a sense of responsibility and prepare them for an eco-conscious life once they
leave prison, both to provide for themselves and their families as well as being able to
work in green collar jobs
Additional Benefits
• Lower recidivism
• Instead of reducing crime by incarcerating more people it is
reducing crime through education and rehabilitation