Defining Sustainable Land Use
Sustainable Land Use in Action
The Basics of Urban Planning, From a Green Perspective
Urban Planning, in general, is a concept and a discipline that involves how we develop and use the land available to us as a society — from the buildings and infrastructure of a city, to the social aspects of how bodies function and move within those spaces, to the integration of distinct communities within that entire city or location.
Further Defining Urban Planning
Within the overarching discipline of Urban Planning, then, other distinct development disciplines fall: landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and in contemporary society, urban renewal — Continue reading
Eat Well Guide, America’s premier guide for finding locally-grown sustainable substitutes for externally grown food, and Consumers Union, the nonprofit group publishing Consumer Reports, have teamed up to launch “The Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge”.
The contest challenges American’s to use the Eat Well Guide to learn more about locally grown, sustainable food, and to find ingredients locally to use in preparing at least one of their Thanksgiving dishes. Continue reading
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Tagged locally grown, organic food, sustainable diet, sustainable food, thanksgiving
Thanks to researchers at the University of California – Riverside, a large portion of the Earth’s current non-hospitable soil can now become inhabitable by food crops, taking pressure off of one of the most pressing problems facing the expansion of human life – overpopulation and limited resources.
Scientists at the university have developed a method to tweak a single gene in plants to make them tolerant of aluminum, a metal toxic to most crop plants which prevents the plants from growing in areas with high traces of the element. Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum, crops, developing countries, environment, growth, toxic soil
What Is Green Building?
Through the practice of Green Building, architects, designers, developers and those in the field of construction attempt to erect buildings that use resources such as water, building materials like wood and energy, in as smart a way as possible. This means that the involved professionals attempt to reduce the overall impact of the building, through each of the developmental phases in its lifetime (from design to operation and eventual removal if necessary), on people and the environment.
Sustainable development is an idea that is related to Green Building.
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Easy Ways to Plan — Sustainable Style
Easy Ways to Go Green brings you a research guide of available materials on the topic of Sustainable Planning. Culled from articles all over the Internet, this ever-expanding universe of information is a one-stop guide for all things sustainable. Why waste the time finding the articles yourself, when we’ll do the dirty work for you? Continue reading
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Tagged Sustainability, sustainable building, sustainable planning
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