Archive for the 'environmental sustainability' Category

Why is Environmental Awareness and Sustainability important for Interior Designers?

And how does it affect them and their designs?
Because those topics are fashionable and interior designers have to be aware of fashion.
Some customers want to follow fashion; some customers would hate to be thought of as following fashion. Either way, the designer needs to know fashion.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be important at all.

Jobs in environmental engineering and sustainability engineering?

I am a junior Civil & Environmental engineering student. I am about to declare my primary and secondary areas of study and i want to make environmental my primary. I want to work in sustainable urban development or design. What kind of jobs can I get as an environmental engineer for sustainability?
Look on engineering job [...]

any articles or info. sources about Water/environmental problems in developing countries?

The U.S. and other developed countries went down the wrong path for environmental sustainability. now it is even harder for developing countries to take advice from developed countries because they want the same comfortable instant gratification items that the U.S. has. They call us hipocrites for telling them not to do what we have done. [...]

united nations Problems with environmental sustainability?

what are problems associated with the process of sustaining the environment? for example, things like deforestation, insufficient money
Its the cost of buying alternative environmentally friendly products. The government really ought to help out more. They are still lurking on the first step ie. creating awareness

United Nations and Environmental Sustainability?

I need help on this template for a paper.
"What should the United Nations do to promote the principles of sustainable development into country programs and policies, in addition to the further reverse the loss of environmental resources?"
Create green energy jobs and reward green businesses that start up in the energy industry sector.

how do you say environmental sustainability in french?

As in the context of this sentence
Japan is the leader in environmental sustainability in the world.
Environmental sustainability in the sense that they develop without destroying earth’s resources.
I think it is "la viabilité environnemental" but I don’t think that’s right. =( please help
Thanks
Depending on your context you’d use one of two phrases. Usually you’d use "durabilité [...]

is embodied energy a good measure of environmental sustainability in construction and…?

are companies realising and utilising this? please respond if you are involved within the industry
All we hear about these days is the use of sustainable materials in construction, I personally don’t see the need because as the government would have you believe the world will end due to global warming so to heck with it. [...]

Can you think an idea to enhance environmental sustainability at a college?

well it depends on whether we are talking about building a new college or just updating an old one.
If you are building a new building then there are all sorts of designs that conserve energy by optimizing heating and cooling, or window placement and insulation. there are also different energy sources you can use like [...]

Is environmental studies a good idea?

Either environmental sustainability or protection?
Is there good money in this, and good career options?
No. Generally "Environmental Studies" is regarded as close to tree hugging. Suspect, unprofessional.

define environmental sustainability?

Sustainability, in a general sense, is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely. In recent years the concept has been applied more specifically to living organisms and systems. As applied to the human community, sustainability has been expressed as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations [...]