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Sustainable Development Project

Sustainable Development Project. Parts of the City – Green Ideas. What is Sustainability?.

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Sustainable Development Project

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  1. Sustainable Development Project Parts of the City – Green Ideas

  2. What is Sustainability? "In a sustainable community, resource consumption is balanced by resources assimilated by the ecosystem. The sustainability of a community is largely determined by the web of resources providing its food, fiber, water, and energy needs and by the ability of natural systems to process its wastes. A community is unsustainable if it consumes resources faster than they can be renewed, produces more wastes than natural systems can process or relies upon distant sources for its basic needs."http://www.oly-wa.us/SustainSouthSound/

  3. Parts of Society Housing Power Water Food Waste Recycling Transportation Recreation Economy City Planner

  4. Housing Single Family homes Duplex Condo/Apartment Townhouses Group homes

  5. Power Plants • Green Energy • Solar Power • Solar Farms • Individual Homes • Good conditions virtually everywhere in the US • Wind • Turbine farms • Individual Homes • Requires 10mph constant wind speed at minimum • Hydroelectric • Requires flowing source of water • Damming is expensive, has upstream ecological consequences • Geothermal • Available 24/7 • Requires a source of groundwater • Biomass • Power from plants • Need lots of arable land

  6. Water Sources Surface Water (rivers, lakes, streams) Groundwater (aquifers) Rainwater Collection Desalinization (Salt water into fresh water)

  7. Food Supply • Local vs. Exotic • Climate dependent • Basic needs are a carbohydrate and a protein source • Squash, corn and legumes (navy, kidney, pinto) • Rice and Soy • Cassava (starchy vegetable) and legumes (lentils, fava and peanuts) • Traditionally meat would supplement the diet • Requires greater land and water use than vegetarian diet

  8. Waste Plant Animal Human Product Composting vs. Dumping Landfills Burning Can provide power, fertilizer, raw materials when properly …

  9. Recycling Plastic, Paper, Aluminum Plant and animal material (Biomass) Building supplies

  10. Transportation Materials, goods, people Roads and Vehicles Transit (Subway, buses, trolleys) People-powered (walking, biking)

  11. Recreation Museums Parks/Forests Lakes Beaches Community Centers Theme Parks

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