terminology


 * CCT434 - Terminology**


 * Deep chemistry**
 * Toxic to human and ecological health**
 * Cancer causing agents**
 * Reproductive system disruption**
 * Endocrine system disruption**
 * Sensitizer**
 * Mutagenicity (damage to DNA)**
 * “persistent” chemicals**
 * “bio-accumulation”**
 * “chemical volatility”**
 * Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)**
 * pthalates**


 * Externalized Costs** -

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - A systematic set of procedures for compiling and examining the inputs and outputs of materials and energy and the associated environmental impacts directly attributable to the functioning of a product or service system throughout its life cycle

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 * Carbon Restoration** - Carbonizing of the surface layer of a material to achieve the original level of carbon content which had been depleted during processing.


 * Planned Obsolescence** - designed with a low lifespan


 * Design for the Environment** - A product label issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that allows consumers to quickly identify and choose products that can help protect the environment and are safer for families. The DfE scientific review team screens each ingredient for potential human health and environmental effects based on currently available information, EPA predictive models, and expert judgement

Ecodesign or green design DfE vs DfS Materials Selection
 * Design for Disassembly (DfD)**– So you can disassemble them and recycle them according. Designing a product to be dismantled for easier maintenance, repair, recovery, and reuse of components and materials.

Supply Chain Sustainability Closed Loop System


 * Biomimicry** - the examination of nature – its models, systems, processes, and elements – for emulation or inspiration towards solving human problems. The term Biomimicry and Biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate. (Isolate and interrogate a natural process, Apply it to a new (unrelated) context, Find the connections.)


 * Biomimetic** -

Life-sustaining principles
 * Champions** - prototype that have ___ principles applied to them (taken from hummingbird and applied to a train)


 * Permaculture** - an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that is modeled on the relationships found in nature. It is based on the ecology of how things interrelate rather than on the strictly biological concerns that form the foundation of modern agriculture

Imagineering


 * Pre-consumer / Post-consumer** - preconsumers


 * Hydro-geological cycle** - The natural process recycling water from the atmosphere down to (and through) the earth and back to the atmosphere again.


 * Naturalization vs. Privatization** - belongs to the people vs. belonging to corporations, chapter 11 of agreement


 * Desertification** - extraction with water leaves the ground dry; desert


 * Urbanization** (from water) - comes off the hardtop and goes directly into the ocean, dries the ground underneath
 * Displacement of water**

Karst System - coral based


 * Desaltinization** - uses a lot of fossil fuels, but whoever does cleans it becomes the owner of the water.

1. Insist on rights of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition.
 * The Hannover Principles **

2. Recognize interdependence. The elements of human design interact with and depend upon the natural world, with broad and diverse implications at every scale. Expand design considerations to recognizing even distant effects.

3. Respect relationships between spirit and matter. Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness.

4. Accept responsibility for the consequences of design decisions upon human well-being, the viability of natural systems and their right to co-exist.

5. Create safe objects of long-term value. Do not burden future generations with requirements for maintenance or vigilant administration of potential danger due to the careless creation of products, processes or standards.

6. Eliminate the concept of waste. Evaluate and optimize the full life-cycle of products and processes, to approach the state of natural systems, in which there is no waste.

7. Rely on natural energy flows. Human designs should, like the living world, derive their creative forces from perpetual solar income. Incorporate this energy efficiently and safely for responsible use.

8. Understand the limitations of design. No human creation lasts forever and design does not solve all problems. Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.

9. Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge. Encourage direct and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers and users to link long-term sustainable considerations with ethical responsibility, and re-establish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.

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 * SLDI = Sustainable Land Development Initiative ** : functions as integrated, fractal matrix that leads from the foundation of triple-bottom-line sustainability to sustainable results.
 * Core bottom lines: (social, environment, economic capital)
 * o Profit: create value, eliminate waste, recognize interdependence
 * o Planet: model nature, energy flows, humans and nature co-exist
 * o People: accept responsibility, quality of life, share knowledge
 * Comprised of 3 elements:
 * o Utility – the “satisfaction,” “incentive,” “desire,”
 * o Effectiveness – doing the “right” things with accuracy and completeness.
 * o Efficiency – achieving the lowest possible input/output ratio.
 * Bottom lines -> Guiding Principles -> Goals -> Objectives -> Best Practices -> Results

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 * Whole Systems Theory: ** understanding how things influence one another within a whole, approach to problem solving by viewing "problems" as parts of an overall system


 * Step 1. ** Define the problem by looking at the whole system
 * Step 2. ** Prioritize objectives by assessing life-cycle impacts
 * Step 3. ** Brainstorm solutions by looking at the whole system
 * Step 4. ** Use metrics to evaluate and choose solutions
 * Step 5. ** Repeat

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Fallman’ Triangle of Design > Resiliency – (important term in sustainable theory) Access to water, food, transit in a state of crisis. > Cultural, economic and social diversity – (Jane Jacobs) > > Mixed income > > Mixed Use > > Jane Jacobs “eyes on the street” – safety is increased because there is a built community. > > Third place > > Infill Housing - the insertion of additional housing units into an already approved subdivision or neighborhood. Buildings can be retrofitted and lose the embodied energy > > Rose Network - A leading green urban solutions provider, we understand buildings, neighborhoods, cities, regions and the nation as complex, adaptive and interdependent systems. Our goal is to help metropolitan regions become more resilient, competitive and equitable. > > Why people get asthma – Emissions > > ** Precautionary Principle ** – never do anything damaging to the environment that will effect 7 generations. An approach states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is //not// harmful falls on those taking the action. > >
 * Design Practice: content driven, particular, synthetic
 * Design Exploration: idealistic, societal, subversive
 * Design Studies: cumulative, distancing, describing