designers

As designers of built environments focus increasingly on green and sustainable construction they will be able to learn much from the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systemizing the various ideas which come under the banner of os sustainable construction.

• designers
• environments
• industrial ecology
• sustainable construction

Architecture/Environment How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also: * Applies the latest passive energy and lighting design research * Organizes information by architectural elements at three scales: * building groups, individual buildings, and building parts

• analysis techniques
• architectural elements
• architecture
• design buildings
• design research
• design strategies
• design tools
• designers
• graphs
• illustrations
• lighting design
• metric units
• passive
• practical design
• relationships
• renewable resources
• scales
• schematic design
• sky
• wind light

Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field?

• activism
• architects
• consumer choices
• design industry
• designers
• environmental causes
• gender studies
• gould
• implications
• informal conversations
• kira
• policymakers
• something unique
• sustainable design
• voices