Posts Tagged ‘ecosystems’
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Net Zero Water
Sustainability performance at the building, neighbourhood and city scale
Emerging storm water management methods represent a key approach to sustainability of integrating ecosystems within our infrastructure. [NE Siskiyou Green Street, Portland, OR; Kevin Robert Perry, ASLA]
by Bud Fraser
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How water and waste infrastructure strategies at different scales, from the building to the city, can respond to sustainability and other challenges. (more…)
Tags: alternate servicing plans, aquatic ecosystems, Bud Fraser, combined processing, composting toilets, displacing fossil fuels, Ecological Sanitation, ecosystems, efficient irrigation systems, enhancing ecosystems, future forces, green building, Holland Barrs Planning Group, Infrastructure, infrastructure gap, Integrated infrastructure, integrated management, Klaus Reichardt, living buildings, local recovery, minimizing impacts, MSW, Municipal Solid Waste, natural cycle, natural ecosystems, reprocessing energy, resource management, Restorative design, self-cleansing system, self-sustaining, solid waste, source separation, stormwater management, summer watering restrictions, sustainability, sustainable water management net zero water, Vancouver, virgin materials, wastewater, water conservation, water quality concerns, water-wise landscaping, zero waste
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Human-earth relationship guides Canada’s first LEED Gold church
The creation of a liturgical environment
The stairwell connecting the narthex to the underground parking.
by Roberto Chiotti
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St-Gabriel’s Passionist Church has been designed to reflect the eco-theology of Passionist Father Thomas Berry and his belief that we must work towards a mutually-enhancing, human-earth relationship. When asked to suggest an appropriate response to this imperative, Berry replied simply: “How will you address the sun?” (more…)
Tags: alternate-fuel vehicles, beets fibre, Carruthers & Wallace Limited, corn stalk fiber, cosmos shapes, daylight sensors carbon dioxide sensors, daylighting, eco-theology, ecosystems, Feherty and Associates Ltd., GreenGuard, heat recovery methodologies, human-earth relationship, hybrid, Ian Gray and Associates Ltd., indigenous, Keen Engineering Co. Ltd. Buttcon Limited, Larkin Architect Limited, leave cars at home, LEED Gold, liturgical environment, locally obtained materials, Manitoba limestone, mutually-enhancing, Passionist Father Thomas Berry, passive solar heating, purify the interior air, re-cycled steel, re-directing construction waste, re-furbished, renewable energy provider, sacred space, sky-lit living wall, slag, stewardship, sustaining the world, thermal mass, Weissbau Inc., wheat strawboard, wildlife habitat, zero VOC materials and finishes
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
A closed loop approach to materials, products and manufacturing processes
Haworth’s Gold-rated Zody Chair®. Cradle to Cradle™ Certified materials are eligible for a LEED point as an Innovation Design credit. [Photo: Haworth, Inc.]
by Jim Taggart
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Created by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry [MBDC] and first launched in 1995, the Cradle to Cradle design protocol evaluates, optimizes and certifies materials, products and manufacturing processes for their human health, ecological and life cycle impacts. (more…)
Tags: and workplace ethics, BASF, biodegrade, biological nutrients, Certification process, closed loop, compostability, current human health, Design Chemistry, eco-toxicological, ecological impacts, ecologically-intelligent design, ecosystems, environmental degradation, environmental health, environmentally benign compounds, Ford, full life cycle, harm reduction, human health, human industry, incentive programs, Innovation Design, life cycle impacts, Material Reutilization/Design for Environment, McDonough Braungart, Michael Braungart, natural world, nature’s biological metabolism, negative effects, night soil, Nike, perpetual cycles of assembly, post-use recovery, product sustainability, productive ecosystems, product’s ingredients, recover value, recyclability, relinquishing material, repeatedly recycled, resource depletion, restore the soil, safety for customers, Social Responsibility, solid waste problem, stewardship and sustainability, sustainability, technical metabolism, technical nutrients, Traditional environmentalism, Victor-Innovatex, water effluent quality
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