Proposed Sustainability Measures By Retrofitting Optimum Sustainable Development

Since the human history enter into the 20th century, people realize that the finite of industrial production, and the significance of the diversity; therefore, pursuing sustainability is one of the most significant goal for people to make efforts. However, achieving the goal is not easy, many factors have restriction on achieving sustainability, such as economics, politics, and culture. Because of so many restrictions on the achievement of sustainability, coordination is necessary. In these days, many universities try to make the sustainability happen. The university of British Columbia has been working to explore the sustainability for many years, and plan to advance the sustainability on their campus and beyond. To make the success of the environmental sustainability, they treat their campus as an interconnected system. They plan to transform the campus into a sustainable lab room because they believe that sustainable is not only a word to define but also a way to interact with the world. They want to become a social test-bed for sustainability. It required the coordination of the entire campus to meet their commitment. The transportation management, green building design, sustainable residential community and engaging students, staff, and faculties all work together to achieve their goal.

I chose this book after reading a little on the Author’s background. Bob Willard worked for IBM Canada for 34 years and his business and leadership experience is vast. His passion for sustainability and helping businesses create overall sustainable cultures that are profitable as they can be was inspiring in itself. After his career with IBM, he pursued Sustainability in a way that he could effectively create and help implement these systems into large and small businesses alike. An author of this and three other books, his company Sustainable Advantage is a B Corporation product, a new type of registered business whose goals largely align with social and environmental efforts as a company. He also gives monetary donations equaling 10% of his company’s annual revenue each year to other organizations dedicated to people and planet concerns.

Your goal is to provide potential sustainability practices and solutions to your school leadership. Your challenge will be to make suggestions related to the physical building and/or redesign of the school's landscape. Your proposal will need to be based upon research and the research conducted within your school. Explain the environmental benefits for your decisions.

Aimed at being a mixed-use development looking to create 1,700 Residential Apartments, 150,000 square meters of office space and 39,000 of retail space. However, with the changing views of the world and increasing role that sustainability plays in the world we live in today. It is needed to ensure that there is balance in the world and a possible future for us, and our generations, which encompasses Elizabeth Quay. In this essay I will be considering ‘to what extent does Elizabeth Quay follows the principles of sustainability'. This I feel is an important question to ask considering today’s societal views, which questions the relevance of plans such as Elizabeth Quay and their affect on the city of Perth. I plan to answer it by using the social, economic, environmental and political factors of sustainability and individually inspecting how they will bring either benefit or disadvantages to the city of Perth and on a larger scale Western Australia. This of course is part of the IB Geography course which is a dynamic subject that is important as it studies the interactions between individuals, societies and the physical world, looking at how all of these interactions respond to an ever changing planet and how they manage these changes. Tying into the topic of sustainability and how Elizabeth Quay looks to achieve Sustainability, and because of the scale of this project how

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is designed to be the greenest building in North America and its continual development in sustainable practices has allowed the building to be an internationally recognized leader. Thus, it is certified LEED Platinum. The CIRS has been a UBC project since 1999 – as it went through several iterations, location, inhabitants and owners over the period of time. Simultaneously, significant advancements were made in sustainable technology, public awareness and green building policies. Therefore, the design

This paper aimed to explore the concept of sustainability of nursing innovations guided by the concept analysis framework developed by Wilson (1969). Although attention in the literature of implementation science has arisen in a few decades, there is a need to identify a concrete definition to capture the essential elements in the concept of nursing innovations sustainability. This paper will present the connotative definitions and attributes, operational definition, antecedents, consequences, exemplar cases, contributes to nursing science and practice, and suggestions to further development of the concept.

The biggest challenge is the training of personnel on the various areas of concern. The key elements for sustainability have played a big role in making the change to the immediate action plan a success throughout the IT department. The cost has been a concern as well but with management supporting the IT sustainability plan we have had little

Concern about the environment and preservation of natural resource had become a heated debate among citizens, designers, and politics. United States alone uses a significant among of world’s energy and produces a great amount of greenhouse gas. According to U.S. Department of Energy’s EIA for 2007, commercial and residential buildings consume about 40 percent of the energy usage in the United States. Building constructions plays an important role in sustainable development and environmental preservation because building life cycle starts with

Environmental Sustainability: Focus on Resource Sustainable Building Design and Construction; Carbon Emissions Reduction; Conservation and Carbon Emissions Reduction; Responsible Supply Chain Practices, Waste Reduction and Innovation.

Q.2 what is the relationship between sustainability and anthropogenic climate change, and how can an understanding of these linkages be used to guide policy from the global to the local scale?

The following paragraph explains how the design is influenced by the triple bottom line - shown in table 1 – to promote sustainability.

People all around the world are beginning to recognize the importance of sustainability and how it is the key to future generations. Because the human ecological footprint is reaching the point of limitation, it is only necessary that humans learn how to adapt and develop more efficient, sustainable states. Today, many cities are faced with the issue of heavily contaminated and polluted domestic water due to the failure of proper treatment and disposal. This event occurs when pollutants and particulates come into contact and engage with water resources. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, residents and local officials continue to debate over the practices of drilling, waste management, and coal mining within their district. These practices are the lead cause to Pittsburgh 's poor water quality. As a result, residents of Pittsburgh and those who live along the border the city, are victims of dangerous wastewater which have the potential to cause deadly diseases and illnesses like malaria and cholera. The problem of water pollution in Pittsburgh has become an issue politically, because local officials debate over the treatment of toxic wastes; socially, because the people of Pittsburgh and those living near its rivers are victimized; and economically, because the city relies on its industries to avoid further debt.

Secondary case studies about the housing project at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh and housing project at Trichi, Tamil Nadu gave me an insight on sustainability accessing the built mass and how it could be used to the advantage of generating a better environment that connects the sustainability with the built environment.

The report aims to assess and improve the sustainability of the rebuilding of the Christchurch Cathedral. Based on the project demand the system boundaries have been set to assess the sustainability of this project. Since the issue is highly inclining towards the culture and heritage of Christchurch, it is necessary to put together the best expertise in the world. Also the rebuild will have major positive impacts on the tourist sector. Due to these reasons the system boundaries have been classified as international, regional & local. The main Purpose of this project is to construct a sustainable Cathedral while maintaining its original heritage and culture. It is a symbol of the Christchurch people rebounding from a major disaster, as well as providing a place of worship for the believers.

Nowadays, sustainability has been taken more into consideration for contemporary designs as it means people need to leave enough resources for future generation while they are consuming for their own needs which requires people to keep a balanced relationship with natural environment when they have their own plannings(van de Kerk and Manuel as cited in Bender, H., Judith, K. & Beilin, R, 2012). That is, some designs are well considered and constructed in order to achieve sustainability in many ways, such as reducing energy consumption, having less impact to the environment and starting to repay to nature. This essay will use the examples of an eco-friendly architecture, H-E-B at Muller and the city planning of Melbourne to illustrate how urban designs can contribute to sustainability.