Community Design
- Creating Community
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Ian Mason's Homepage. An Ecological Community and Eco-Village Web Site Principles, ideas and visions for
developing local community.
- Eight steps to creating your own sustainable Community
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by Robert Gilman � edited by Tommy Cichanowski. You might think that guidelines for eco-village development would mostly
have to do with their "eco" aspect. That is, how to handle the blosystem and built environment. These are certainly important
but in researching this issue and interviewing many people with extensive community experience, we have learned that the physical
systems are the easiest part. They are also the most variable. The details depend strongly on the specifics of the community,
its location, purpose, and composition. These guidelines here, focus on where we perceive the need to be. The social process
of eco-village development.
- Sustainable Community Design
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Sustainable Community Design refers essentially to a practice of planning, designing, building and managing, and
the social- economic development of communities following the precepts of sustainable development set out by the
UN Brundtland Commission in 1986. In the same year, Van Der Ryn and Calthorpe published their "design synthesis
for cities, suburbs and towns" -- a foundational study of conceptual and empirical approaches, environmental,
landscape, urban design and architectural themes, and illustrative project designs for creating "sustainable communities".
The Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba
- Green Communities
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The Green Communities Assistance Kit that you will find here is packaged as a step-by-step guide for planning and implementing
sustainable actions. Each of the five steps results in a specific outcome. Provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- The Natural Step
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The Natural Step (TNS) is an international organization that uses a science-based, systems
framework to help organizations, individuals and communities take steps towards sustainability.
- Glossary of Terms
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on the website of Earthsong Auckland, New Zealand.
Systems and Ecological Design
- A Pattern Language (Book)
- by Christopher Alexander
- Pattern Language.com
- The website to the book!
Patternlanguage.com is a community-based website dedicated to supporting all efforts to re-build the
earth and care for it as a living structure.
- Ecological Design Institute
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"Designing to meet human needs while preserving the health of planetary life is the fundamental
task of ecological design, and the primary mission of the Ecological Design Institute (EDI) and
Van der Ryn Architects."
- Society for Responsible Design, Australia
- The aim of the Society for Responsible Design is to work towards a sustainable future
through environmentally and socially responsible design practices
- Planet Earth Home, by Mel Moench (Book)
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planet earth home is a compilation of the entire world's knowledge and technology for new self-sufficient
home designs. It is organized as a reference work covering virtually all related technologies such as solar,
photovoltaic, wind, greenhouses, and more.
- SETAC Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) Advisory Group
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The mission of the SETAC LCA Advisory Group is to advance the science, practice, and application of LCAs to
reduce the resource consumption and environmental burdens associated with products, packaging, processes,
or activities.
- The Hannover Principles
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Developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the Hannover Principles were among the first to
comprehensively address the fundamental ideas of sustainability and the built environment, recognizing
our interdependence with nature and proposing a new relationship that includes our responsibilities
to protect it.
- Whole Systems
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Nature is a whole system. But also an economy, a family, a company, a community, or many other things, can be
looked at as whole systems. A whole system view would include all the factors involved and examine how they
relate to each other and how they work as a whole. To deal with a whole system we can't leave anything out as
irrelevant. Intuition is as important as rationality, we must address both scientific and artistic approaches,
both material and spritual needs, the small as well as the big, what we feel as well as what we think, what we
perceive as well as what we imagine.
Resources from the New Civilization Network
- Introduction to General Systems Theory
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A slide show.
- Corporate Design Foundation, USA
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Corporate Design Foundation is a nonprofit educational and research organization founded on the belief that individual
and organizational interests can best be served through the effective use of design disciplines: product design,
communication design and architecture. This site contains resources for business leaders, faculty, students and
others interested in the integration of design and business.
- William A. McDonough
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William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what
he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.'
- Design Earth Synergy
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Envision Synergy was initially formed when Chris Belknap (Design Synergy) and Paul Ponthieux (Envision) made a
commitment to join forces after many years of collaborating on sustainable community projects in Hawaii.
Together and individually, they spent many years working to promote the opportunity and value of sustainable
design at the community level.
- Mind Tools: SWOT Analysis
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SWOT Analysis is a very effective way of identifying your Strengths and Weaknesses, and of
examining the Opportunities and Threats you face. Carrying out an analysis using the SWOT
framework will help you to focus your activities into areas where you are strong, and where
the greatest opportunities lie.
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