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SUSTAINABLE
COMMUNITIES AND CITIES
Human
ecology science evaluation of the basic
health and well being needs of people living in urban areas. Integration
of architectural, building, industrial design and planning professions
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CITY RENEWAL / URBAN SUSTAINABLITY
• ARCOLOGY - "arcological" (architecture-ecology)
design integrating cutting edge sustainable
development and technology resources with community innovations.
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ECO-ARCHITECTURE
- Building
Green - Braungart, Micheal
- Chemist
- Environmental
Protection Encouragement Agency
- Green Roof
Project - In Harmony Design
(Bothell, WA)
- McDonough Braungart
Design Chemistry, LLC - McDonough,
William - architect
- Northwest
Ecobuilding Guild - Sustainable
Architecture, Building, and Culture
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ECO-DESIGN
- City
Repair (Portland, OR) - ConservationEconomy - Ecological
Design Center (Eugene, OR) - EcoTrust
- Hannover
Principles, The - Institute
for Sustainable Environment
- San
Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability - Sustainable
Oregon - Sustainable
Northwest
- SustainDane
Madison - Sustainable
Seattle - Watershed
and Community Health
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LEED CERTIFIED : HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS
- Certified - 40-50% of non-innovation points
- Silver - 50-60%
- Gold - 60-80%
- Platinum - over 80%
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ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE - strives to integrate
space into a unified whole, where buildings grow naturally from
its environment.
- Eric
Lloyd Wright - Frank
Lloyd Wright - Wright
Way: Organic Resource Center
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PATTERN
LANGUAGE - a system of patterns or solutions
which make buildings, room, gardens, and neighborhoods work well
for us. Lay people and architects can use patterns to design better
buildings which are uniquely suited to their own needs.
- Fuller,
Buckmeister - visionary - Object-Oriented
Designers
- Nature
of Order - book - Nikos
A. Salingaros
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• COMMUNITY NETWORKS
- Sustainable
Building, Development and Design - Earthdance Network - Sustainable
Communities
- Sustainable
Agriculture - Sustainable
Economy and Financial Resources |
• ECO-NOMICS = THE ECOLOGY OF HOME
• FAIR
TRADE - Better prices, decent working conditions,
local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers
in the developing world. By requiring companies to pay above market
prices
• LOCAL
CURRENCIES - Local community backing, promotes
the exchange of goods and services and increases local purchasing
power while avoiding the danger of government currency depreciation.
By facilitating production and trade, these currencies encourage local
self-reliance and stimulate community spirit.
- LETS
- Local Exchange Trading Systems - Ithica Hours
(Ithica, NY)
- Madison
Hours (Madison, WI) - Open Money
System
• NATURAL
CAPITALISM - a future in which business and
environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which businesses
can better satisfy their customers' needs, increase profits, and
help solve environmental problems all at the same time.
- LOHAS Online
Journal - NatCap (book) - Next Industrial Revolution - Movie
- Rocky Mountain Institute - Small
is Profitable - SustainableBusiness.com
• TRIPLE
BOTTOM LINE - whole set of values, issues
and processes that companies must address in order to minimize
any harm resulting from their activities and to create economic,
social and environmental value. This involves being clear about
the company’s purpose and taking into consideration the
needs of all the company’s stakeholders – shareholders,
customers, employees, business partners, governments, local communities
and the public.
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INTENTIONAL COMMUNTIES
- an
inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts,
communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related
projects and dreams.
- Cooperative
Living: Student - Communities Magazine - Findhorn Foundation
(Scotland)
- Listing Holistic
Resources - Lost Valley Educational
Center (Dexter, OR)
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ECO-VILLAGES
- a human-scale, full-featured settlement in which human activities
are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that
is supportive of healthy human development and can be successfully
continued into the indefinite future
- Aprovecho
(Cottage Grove, OR) - Dancing
Rabbit Ecovillage (Rutledge, WI)
- Ecovillage
@ Ithaca (Ithaca, NY) - Eslaen Institute (Big
Sur, CA)
- Findhorn
EcoVillage (Scotland) - Los Angeles
Ecolvillage (los angeles, ca)
- Global
Ecovillage Network - Map
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EGALITARIAN COMMUNITIES - a network
of communal groups, range in size
and emphasis from small agricultural homesteads to village-like
communities to urban group houses.
- The Federation
of Egalitarian Communities
• LAND TRUSTS
• COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS - Democratically
controlled nonprofit organization that owns real estate in order
to provide benefits to its local community - and in particular
to make land and housing available to residents who cannot otherwise
afford them.
- Kuslahn Land Trust - The Institute for Community
Economics
• CONSERVATION LAND TRUSTS - protect
sensitive lands and wilderness
- Whatcom
Land Trust
• STEWARSHIP TRUSTS - combine affordable
housing and conservation goals
- Breitenbush
Community (Detroit, OR) - Evergreen
Land Trust
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