Lecture 2: Sustainability: Definitions, Principles, and Examples

Sustainability is about

"green" "ecological " "environmentally responsible."

Transportation

1. 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation 2. taking public transportation 3. walk or cycle it'd be even better 4. Using electric cars

Why Sustainability?

1. Energy consumption 2. CO2 emissions 3. Electricity demand

Examples of Sustainability

1. Technology 2. Fashion 3. Transportation 4. Zero Waste 5. Workplace 6. Sustainable Cities

What is sustainability?

1. The word sustainability comes from sustainable + ity. 2. And sustainable is, for instance, a composition of sustain + able.

Workplace

1. Using new technologies, becoming paperless or providing conditions and training for employees to recycle 2. being careful about waste management 3. opening the blinds when there's sunlight

Sustainable Cities

1. cities that have strong social, economic and environmental performances 2. They have good scores of air pollution 3. availability of public transportation 4. the number of educated and employed people 5. the percentage of green spaces 6. Less energy consumption

Sustainable development

1. is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 2. Along with it also comes an idea of societal progress and an increase in quality of life across the globe.

Zero Waste

1. reuse it and recycle or compost it 2. not to take any trash home (e.g. bags)

Fashion

1. toxic chemicals causes soil & water pollution 2. makes clothes with resistant materials 3. uses sustainably produced cotton

Technology

1. using your devices for a long period 2. making sure you get disposed of them in a responsible way 3. recycling of batteries

Sustainability has been increasingly used in a specific way, why?

Because of the environmental and social problems societies around the world are facing.

Francis Kettering;

We should be concerned about the future, because we have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Sustainable

an adjective for something that is able to be sustained ex: something that is "bearable" and "capable of being continued at a certain level".

Sustainability is not just about

building green but about building community and sustaining a quality way of life .

Sustainability

can perhaps be seen as the process(es) by which something is kept at a certain level.

2. Implications of sustainable development (Futurity principle)

emphasizes intergenerational equity and the need to minimize environmental resources for future generation through resources recycling and reviewable process.

Sustain

give support to, to hold up, to bear, or to keep up

3. Implications of sustainable development (Public participation)

is an important strand that defines sustainable development and its role in influencing sustainable design decisions. It involves the participation of building and construction expert in sustainable devolvement decision making.

1. Implications of sustainable development (Proper design)

is the first step of defense against the stress of the climate. Buildings should be designed according to the climate of the site, reducing the need for mechanical heating or cooling.

5. Implications of sustainable development (Equity)

promotes equality between the present generation and future generation by ensuring equal access to natural and environmental resources.

4. Implications of sustainable development (Environment emphasized)

the preservation of ecosystem, energy conservation and resources conservation for future building and envelope development.

Nowadays, sustainability is usually defined as

the processes and actions through which humankind avoids the depletion of natural resources, in order to keep an ecological balance that doesn't allow the quality of life of modern societies to decrease.