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Choosing low impact, local, seasonal and organic diets and reducing food wasteContinue

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Reducing waste, reusing where possible, and ultimately sending zero waste to landfillContinue

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Using water more efficiently in buildings and in the products we buy; tackling local flooding and water course pollutionContinue

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Making buildings more energy efficient and delivering all energy with renewable technologiesContinue

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Creating bioregional economies that support fair employment, inclusive communities and international fair tradeContinue

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Using sustainable and healthy products, such as those with low embodied energy, sourced locally, made from renewable or waste resourcesContinue

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Protecting and restoring existing biodiversity and natural habitats through appropriate land use and integration into the built environmentContinue

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Reviving local identity and wisdom; supporting and participating in the artsContinue

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Encouraging active, sociable, meaningful lives to promote good health and well beingContinue

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Encouraging low carbon modes of transport to reduce emissions, reducing the need to travelContinue

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My friend, David Peabody, AIA spoke to my class at Catholic University.

He is designing and developing Passive Houses in the Washington, DC area.  This is an economic route to net zero energy envelope dominated buildings!  We should pay attention to this criteria and construction approach.  Please see --

http://greenhaus.org
david@greenhaus.org

  

Posted by James L. Binkley on February 23, 2012 at 10:26am

Great interest in facts on climate change and politics that can kill us.

Please read this!  It shows the great interest in the truth and how self interest can lead to great human suffering.

May all of you be well, peaceful and happy today in preparations and in Thanksgiving tomorrow.

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Posted by James L. Binkley on November 23, 2011 at 8:33am

The need and opportunity to engage Resilient Design

Folks:

Like many True Sustainability participants, I have been involved in sustainable design, energy and environment since the 1970s. I also had a hand in rewording the AIA COTE Top Ten principles in the 1990s. I am now involved in concepts of "Resilient Design." "Resilience" is different and distinct from our prior conceptions because it is incorporating lessons learned, knowledge and vary rapidly emerging tools and methods from the natural disaster mitigation disciplines. These…

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Welcome to the True Sustainability community, a forum in which to share transformative regional and cutting edge projects that redefine the relationship between sites, buildings and their larger environment. We invite you to engage with this community to learn from each other’s successes and challenges, and to reach out to others within the site to form innovative regional partnerships.
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A few years ago, members of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) Advisory Group began discussions on the fact that greening of the built environment was concerned with increasing efficiencies of systems and the use of materials and not larger concerns. It seemed that little effort was invested in a holistic response to the vital issues of our times including – ecological degradation on an unprecedented scale, climate change, loss of systems that provide food and water and peak energy.
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