Sustainable Environmental Design - Adaptive Management, Bioregionalism, Bioretention, Constructed Wetland, Creative Energy Homes, Depression-Focused Re (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Chapters: Adaptive management, Bioregionalism, Bioretention, Constructed wetland, Creative Energy Homes, Depression-focused recharge, Design for the Environment, Eco-cities, Eco-municipality, Ecodistrict, Ecological design, Ecosa Institute, Energy-efficient landscaping, Environmental design and planning, Environmental impact assessment, Erosion control, Grassed waterway, Green furniture, Groundwater recharge, Landscape planning, Life Cycle Thinking, Naturesave Insurance, New Urbanism, Permaculture, Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, Rain garden, Reconciliation ecology, Riparian buffer, Rural-urban fringe, Strategic environmental assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment (Denmark), Strategic sustainable development, Sustainability appraisal, Sustainable architecture, Sustainable automotive air conditioning, Sustainable design, Sustainable gardening, Sustainable habitat, Sustainable landscape architecture, Sustainable landscaping, Sustainable living, Sustainable refurbishment, Sustainable regional development, Sustainable urban drainage system, Swale (landform), Treatment wetland, Urban acupuncture, Used good, Water conservation, Wildland-urban interface. Excerpt: Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources and personal resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption, and diet. Proponents of sustainable living aim to conduct their lives in ways that are consistent with sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and cycles. The practice and general philosophy of ecological living is highly interrelated with the overall principles of sustainable development....