Sustainable Design and Urban and Regional Planning

Recents concern about the impact of global warming upon the world's climates and increased pollutiion and despoilation of natural habita...

One of the first individuals to arouse concern about the impact that modern society was having on the environment was Rachel Carson in her b...

One of the first principles of sustainable design and urban planning is to recognize that we are all connected, and what one of us does affe...

Sustainable design and urban planning is guided by several principles borrowed from biology or the natural environment. These include the co...

WASTE REDUCTION -- Waste is the ultimate externality or pollution produced by humans and all other living organisms. In the past, humans hav...

RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY - Recycling and resource recovery is the other sustainable method of dealing with waste. In the 1970's, ...

Above is a schematic diagram of a successful municipal solid waste resource recovery/waste-to-energy plant being operated to process the wa...