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Book: Ecological Design
| Sustainability and Design | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many miles of rain forest are lost each day? | 100 square miles |
| Technological Sustainability | "Every problem has either a technological answer or market solution . . ." It is about expert interventions . . . |
| Ecological Sustainability | "It is the task of finding alternatives to the practices that got us into trouble in the first place" Grassroots, local community involved in making the change |
| What do proponents of technological sustainability believe? | They assert that a fundamental change in direction is not necessary |
| Definition of sustainable development according to 1987 report "Our Common Future" | Development that meets the needs of the present w/o compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" - technological sustainabilty |
| How does the "Our Common Future" report propose to attain sustainability? | "more rapid economic growth in both industrial and developing countries, lower interest rates, greater technology transfer, significantly larger capital flows." - technological sustainabiltiy |
| What does Technological Sustainabilty neglect? | the details of culture and community |
| What does Ecological Sustainability embrace? | limits to technology, material wants, stress placed on biosphere, and hubris |
| David Orr's four characteristics of Ecological Sustainability | 1. people are finite & fallible, 2. a sustainable world be redesigned and rebuilt only from the bottom up, 3. traditional knowledge that co-evolves out of culture and place is critical, 4. the true harvest of evolution is encoded in nature's design |
| What is the the significant change in architecture over the last century? | The growing dependence of homes on centrlized technological infrastructures for the provisions of food, fuel, water, and building materials |
| What is the US use of world energy production | One BTU in twleve is used to heat and cool US building stock |
| How much energy does it take to heat and cool US building stock? | p.8 On average it takes as much energy to heat and cool for three years as it took to build it in the first place. |
| What is the largest source of air pollution after cars? | home furnaces |
| What is the avg. water use per household inhabitant per day? | Between 150-200 gallons |
| What is the avg. amount of garbage produced per person in US? | 4.5 lbs per day or 2.5-5 tons per year |
| Epitemology | p. 8 What philosophers call a filter that detemines what counts as knowledge |
| Environmental and Design Crisis | p. 9 Design manifests culture. Present forms of agriculture, arch, engr, industry are incompatible with nature |
| Dumb Design | p.10 design that fails to consider the health of human communities or of ecosystems, let alone the prerequisites of creating an actual place. It is wasteful of energy and resources |
| Define design as per book | p. 8 Design is the intentional shaping of matter, energy, and process to meet a perceived need or desire. A hinge the inevitably connects culture and nature through exchanges of materials, flows of energy and choices of land use |
| The way we design as per Wendell Berry | p. 9 A solution that causes a ramifying series of new problems, the only limiting criterion being, apparently, that the new problems should arise beyond the purview of the expertise that produced the solution |
| Our designs have reduced a complex and diverse landscape to what | asphalted networks made from crude design templates |
| For most of this century architectural design has been informed by what type of metaphor | Metaphor of the Machine |
| Where does 40% of the US energy consumption go | It can be traced to building construction, materials, and maintenance |
| What does anthropologist Gregory Bateson say about Lake Erie that comments on the way we currently design | p. 14 Lake Erie is used as a trash can without thinking about the wider ramifications of damaging this part of a greater whole |
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