Sentences with phrase «of ecological design»

This film illuminates the emergence of ecological design in the 20th Century.

(I came to this conclusion because of the nature of ecological design, the nature of social activism, and my experiences doing both in Detroit.

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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SUSTAINABILITY X DESIGN How can we design products, environments, and services that comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainabDESIGN How can we design products, environments, and services that comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainabdesign products, environments, and services that comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability?

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

Change in circle 7 involves a combination of consciousness - raising education designed to increase enlightened caring for the whole biosphere, and social - political action to produce changes in the institutions of our society that are essential to protect our precious and fragile ecological environment.

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.

Organic Agriculture should attain ecological balance through the design of farming systems, establishment of habitats and maintenance of genetic and agricultural diversity.

Organic production is designed to promote ecological balance, foster the cycling of resources, and conserve biodiversity.

Luis C. Rodriguez is an ecological economist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems working on the design of efficient and equitable economic instruments to achieve both environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives.

The Glen Ellyn Park District has been working with Conservation Design Forum, an ecological design company, and landscape architects Farr Associates since early June to create a master plan for the park at a cost of about $ 5Design Forum, an ecological design company, and landscape architects Farr Associates since early June to create a master plan for the park at a cost of about $ 5design company, and landscape architects Farr Associates since early June to create a master plan for the park at a cost of about $ 56,000.

The contradictory opinions and the varying designs of scientific studies make it very hard to weigh the ecological impact of our decisions.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Design and analysis of ecological experiments.

Yet they embody a coherent school of design — a common form of organization that brings the living concerns of the human and ecological communities into the world of property rights and economic power.

That ecological design — stable for decades — is possible because governance of this major, publicly traded company is also stable.

It is critical for understanding the ecological and cultural basis of coastal fisheries and designing sustainable management systems today,» says Ken Lertzman, another SFU co-author.

«Children's inquisitiveness to natural habitats and to ecological relations is relevant to curriculum design for preschool and primary grades,» said Megan Bang, associate professor of education at the University of Washington.

Project BudBurst launched in 2007 as a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the observation and collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering and fruiting of plants (aka plant phenophases).

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

«This tool is designed to help us evaluate a fishery system's performance toward achieving economic, community and ecological sustainability — the «triple bottom line,»» said co-author James Anderson, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Florida.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

«And whole libraries may appear on our desktop screens apparently out of thin air, but unless some radical changes are made in the way we design and produce our information age gadgetry, its ecological footprint will never really be reduced.»

It can also encourage more efficient use of fish and other resources that are prone to shift over space and time, reducing the necessity during the design phase of trying to match the ecosystem scale with the policy scale — nearly impossible given the myriad socioeconomic and ecological considerations.

The study suggests combining well - designed marine reserves with sensible management of the target fishery for broad economic and ecological benefits.

Although the study is interesting, says Eric Dinerstein, a biologist with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., he argues that information about the ecological roles of subspecies may be an even more important criterion than genetic makeup in designing conservation strategies.

This December 2012 workshop sought to determine the data needs and testing methods for the environmental release of synthetically designed algae and to assess the ecological effects and risks of synthetic organisms.

NC State undergraduates were already involved in the warming chambers research project, but the REU was designed to be a collaboration between NC State and Shaw University — a historically black university in Raleigh, N.C. — for the express purpose of engaging African - American undergrads in ecological research.

She works in the fields of drug design, evaluation of environmental pollutants and ecological genomics.

In the article «Ecological communities by design,» Fredrickson discusses how synthetic ecology — the design and construction of microbial communities with desirable properties — requires new knowledge on how communities function.

To address this uncertainty, the science, education, computing and engineering communities provided input to NEON's design, with the shared goal of creating a long - term ecological observatory that collects and provides a diverse suite of comparable and consistent ecological data at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

an artistic eye and ecological integrity, using many recycled materials to create many of her designs.

Sheffield, UK About Blog Weddle Landscape Design is primarily a landscape architecture consultancy with well respected technical strength in arboriculture, site planning, design and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental apprDesign is primarily a landscape architecture consultancy with well respected technical strength in arboriculture, site planning, design and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental apprdesign and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental appraisal.

While our food is rooted in a vast chain of ecological relationships, it's also part of an increasingly complex and problematic system of our own design.

As part of the comprehensive effort to minimise the car's ecological impact, the Range Rover Evoque has been designed to maximise the use of more sustainable materials.

Responding to the initial ecological concerns of pet parents who wanted toys manufactured with safe components that weren't threatening to the environment, manufacturers stepped up with innovative approaches to product design and composition.

Sheffield, UK About Blog Weddle Landscape Design is primarily a landscape architecture consultancy with well respected technical strength in arboriculture, site planning, design and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental apprDesign is primarily a landscape architecture consultancy with well respected technical strength in arboriculture, site planning, design and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental apprdesign and contract documentation and wide experience of ecological and environmental appraisal.

Our lodgings are consciously designed to fit within our primary goals of minimizing our ecological footprint and inspiring our visitors with many working models of sustainable living.

The sea kayaking adventure is designed to introduce novice kayakers as well as advanced paddlers to the beauty and ecological diversity of Turneffe Atoll.

Kayaking is available in many parts of Belize, but Turneffe Atoll is particularly suited to unforgettable sea kayaking adventures, and our resort's all inclusive Kayaking Vacation Package is designed to introduce novice kayakers, as well as advanced paddlers, to the beauty and ecological diversity of Belize's Turneffe Atoll.

Claire came to the field of landscape architecture to integrate dynamic ecological and cultural processes throughout a project's lifecycle, from the initial vision and design, through public engagement, construction detailing, and ongoing maintenance and stewardship.

Claire Mooney, Project Coordinator for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, has worked in the field of ecological restoration and design for 15 years.

The Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, is an ecological hotel designed in accordance with boutique hotel standards, is not only one of the best hotels in its class in Peru, but it has received important international distinctions, especially for ecological themes, emphasizing the followings:

For the third in our six - part series in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, Design Matters, architect David Adjaye on the importance of technology in making smarter and more ecological materials

After teaching as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan for 25 years, she was commissioned by Paris and designed Arboreal Architecture, an ecological city with skyscrapers covered with vegetation.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

Since emerging from the Glasgow art scene in the early 1990s, Simon Starling (British, b. 1967) has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation, working in a wide variety of media (film, installation, photography) to interrogate the histories of art and design, scientific discoveries, and global economic and ecological issues, among other subjects.

Paintings, prints and architectural models are joined by interactive elements, such as wild furniture designs and such ecological experiments such as a grove of fruit trees under heat lamps.