Monday
02Mar2009
Invitation to Guest Contributors
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 4:13PM Consilience: The Blog welcomes leading professionals and academics to contribute to the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary community of sustainable development. Our specialties of interest are architecture, land-use planning, landscape architecture, appraisal, accounting, engineering, and law, with some input from those in CSR capacities. Contributions of most interest focus on thinking that brings us together, as in the Building Information Modeling process, Life Cycle Analysis, and the Integrated Design Process or Integrated Practice Delivery.
Reader Comments (1)
Dear Mr. Austin,
as per your suggestion, I am writing a small note on what i believe can be a remedy for pollution control and help for sustainble development. Hopefully you will find it suitable for printing it.
I donot belong to either architecture fraternity or that of town(city) planning. However, I wonder whether the following infra structural conditions should be worthwhile to think about for future:
All the corporate and general offices should mandatorily provide employees to live in the same complex or within limited distance. Such a provision itself will reduce considerable amount of carbon emission caused by each individual employee.
Tall buildings can use small wind mill and also the waste for electricity generation at least for lighting the surrounding in the campus.
the waste water in the building specially from kitchen section can be stored and treated in the complex itself so that they can be used for such purposes as for the toilet or watering plants in garden etc.