With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.
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'Design for Sustainability has a swathe of solutions to pollution, waste and other ills' New Scientist 'An invaluable reference and teaching resource' Sustain 'Design for Sustainability is an inspiring, radical and detailed collection of the eco-solutions that can be applied to a range of design challenges... [an] invaluable reference' World Environment Magazine
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Janis Birkeland was an artist and architect before becoming an urban designer and city planner with the City of San Francisco. She later became an attorney, with a focus on environmental law and planning. Dr Birkeland is presently consulting in the area of urban and regional planning, and teaches in the Division of Science and Design at the University of Canberra.
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This type of book is well overdue. It covers both the theoretical and practical side of sustainable design and is very well set out. It is an excellent reference book and covers the full spectrum of sustainable design issues, which affect us all!
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design for sustainability is defnitly a sourcebook for sustainable designers.it spanes through every aspect of our existance and ofers a new way of living it sustainably. from hemp clothes to earth building and even touches thinking patterns of design, giving the profetional designer not only eco-logical solutions but new perspectives to the process of design.this book opened my mind to new pathes of thought and action.
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Independent experts have concluded that, in order to achieve sustainable consumption levels, it will be necessary to reduce resource and energy usage tenfold - an imperative sometimes called 'Factor 10'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
creative play environments, bionic method, earth wall construction, autonomous servicing, rooftop greening, strawbale construction, cyclic economy, bioregional planning, carbohydrate economy, built environment design, ecological housing, linear metabolism, permaculture design, adaptable housing, construction ecology, urban consolidation, autonomous house, ecological homes, urban metabolism, ecological ignorance, environmental management tools, material flows analysis, embodied energy, product semantics, living technologies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Island Press, South Africa, Oxford University Press, World Bank, New Zealand, University of Canberra, San Francisco, Interim Park, Rocky Mountain Institute, Worldwatch Institute, Green Architecture, New Society Publishers, North American, The Netherlands, Bamboo World, Cambridge University Press, Cool Companies, Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Reshaping the Built Environment, Sierra Club Books, Christie Walk, Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, Gabriola Island New!
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creative play environments, bionic method, earth wall construction, autonomous servicing, rooftop greening, strawbale construction, cyclic economy, bioregional planning, carbohydrate economy, built environment design, ecological housing, linear metabolism, permaculture design, adaptable housing, construction ecology, urban consolidation, autonomous house, ecological homes, urban metabolism, ecological ignorance, environmental management tools, material flows analysis, embodied energy, product semantics, living technologies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Island Press, South Africa, Oxford University Press, World Bank, New Zealand, University of Canberra, San Francisco, Interim Park, Rocky Mountain Institute, Worldwatch Institute, Green Architecture, New Society Publishers, North American, The Netherlands, Bamboo World, Cambridge University Press, Cool Companies, Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Reshaping the Built Environment, Sierra Club Books, Christie Walk, Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, Gabriola Island New!
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- Ecological Design by Sim Van der Ryn on 6 pages
- The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery on page 166, page 170, and page 240
- The Basics Of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars on page 98, and page 102
- Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment by Stephan Schmidheiny on page 11, and page 72
- Bamboo World by Victor Cusack on page 203, and Back Matter
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