Sentences with phrase «ecological design which»

From Wikipedia: Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems.

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The global environmental crisis tells us that the ecological system has been disastrously affected by the design of the production system, which has developed with almost no regard for sustaining the ecological system.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Participating students designed and built this project as part of the college's Renewable Energy and Ecological Design (REED) course, which was completed during the semester.

Using special luminous and ecological paint called ELI («eco light inside» — ecological powder which is modified into a gelcoat thatcovers the furniture) that Papadopoulos created especially for the project, the sideboard is produced by Italian design company Ennerzero and will be on display at the SOHO gallery in Milan for the «dEMOsign» exhibition.

Perhaps a better approach is to allow for people to act the way people tend to do, but design systems such that people have their own ecological niche, which, through good design, allows them to behave in self - interested ways that benefit the common good.

As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced — intelligently designed ecological cities that would revolutionize the way we thought about the environments in which we dwell.

S: To me, the guiding principles of environmentalism or permaculture, which is ecological design, are the same as my guiding spiritual principles: that everything is interconnected, that everything is alive and communicating, and that if we honor that, if we listen to what the natural world is telling us, if we observe what is being shown to us, then we have the power to work in harmony with nature instead of against nature.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.

On Friday, July 25, the Scottish Ecological Design Association launched the latest issue of their magazine, which is published two to three times a year, at Greek Thomson's Caledonia Road Church in Glasgow.

It is designed to utilize degraded lands and prohibit the expansion of production in forest areas, thus helping to fight deforestation — which converges with the Amazon Ecological - Economic Macrozoning law.

Naturalistic designs are clinically useful and have high ecological validity, which can allow results to be generalized to patients generally seen in typical clinical settings (i.e., community mental health teams, hospital wards).