DES 127A Study Guide - Final Guide: Rural Studio, North Atlantic Gyre, Triple Bottom Line
Document Summary
Chapter 1: what is wrong with universal design solutions. They design a product for the worst possible circumstance that reflects the assumption that nature is the enemy (pg 30) Intergenerational tyranny: tyranny over future generations through the effects of our actions today (pg 43) Eco-effectiveness: working on the right things, on the right products and services and systems, instead of making the wrong things less bad. Buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own wastewater and release it slowly in a purer form. Factory effluent water that is cleaner than the influent. Billions, even trillions of dollars worth of materials accrued for human and natural purposes each year. A world of abundance, not one of limits, pollution, and waste. Chapter 4: earth"s biological metabolism (waste=food) vs. technical metabolism. Biological metabolism: biosphere, the cycles of nature, consumed by microorganisms in the soil and by other animals.
