DES 127A Study Guide - Final Guide: Ecological Footprint, William Mcdonough, Sustainable Design
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Small number of competitive, quickly growing species. Use most of their available energy for growth. Larger number of species with stable populations. Forest or coral reef - many kinds of plants and organisms. Goal of sustainable design is for human economy to evetually stablize and live of earth"s net solar income like a mature ecosystem. Would only use the net available solar energy. What does the hep-nep (human exceptionist paradigm-new environmental. Know what the chemurgy movement was and why it died out. Chemurgy - a branch of applied chemistry concerned with preparing industrial products form agricultural raw materials. Henry ford"s soybean car 1941 & soybean suit. They also did not believe in global warming or environmental issues. Know the definitions of carbon footprint, ecological footprint. Carbon footprint - measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, Global ecological footprint is 30% larger than nature can sustain.
