Sustainable Design Articles & Analysis
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However, environmental concerns necessitate a shift toward more sustainable options. Cardboard: Lightweight and cost-effective, cardboard is another favored material. ...
In 2012 we installed a Worm Farm Waste System at an Inverloch property that has featured on the LifeStyle Channel’s program, Grand Designs Australia. The Inverloch ‘Sand Dune House’, located along the Inverloch-Cape Paterson Road, belongs to Glenn and Kate Morris and was constructed by local builder, Martin Builders. The home has caught the attention of many a people who travel ...
The farms are being covered by Industrial & Environmental Concepts, a designer and installer of cover systems for wastewater lagoons and tanks. ...
Farming fish together with seaweed and other species could help improve the sustainability of aquaculture and reduce pollution. A new study provides a tool for designing sustainable fish farming systems and calculates their potential to recycle waste. ...
Several engineering technologies are utilised: aerodynamics for fin design, mechatronics for power management, materials for thermoelectric and solar film, CAD for the layout, and heat transfer for human comfort. The result is a sustainable design capable of harvesting both solar and wind energies which are converted into electric power for the ...
Depletion of fossil fuels and climate change necessitate a transition to sustainable energy systems that make efficient use of renewable energy sources. ...
Highlighting the historical conditions in which the word emerged and was used, is an important but not sufficient pathway to interpret the diversity of meanings and uses and to make the word a meaningful, robust and operational concept for addressing Sustainable Development (SD) and designing adequate policies.Keywords: agricultural multifunctionality, ...
This paper puts forward integrated tourism Cleaner Production (CP) and demonstrates it is an inevitable course for the sustainable development of tourism industry. Further more, tourist landscape eco-design was discussed, which plays a very important role in the integrated tourism CP but the current research on it is insufficient. This paper uses landscape ...
The evidence suggestes that various participatory and deliberative approaches have been used under the RFA to allow for a plurality of environmental values, but that the integration of public values into final decision-making has been unsatisfactory. Process design, commitment and inadequate attention paid to conflict resolution can be attributed as reasons for sub-optimal ...
Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. ...