Here’s a great (relatively) new green product for use in our sustainable future: recycled glass + concrete. Glass is a particularly attractive and useful material. Made from the all natural ingredients of soda ash and sand, and rendered in all of its myriad shapes, colors, textures and applications, it becomes one of our most widely used materials for consumer products and construction alike. Glass is also the only material generally recognized by the U. S. Federal Drug Administration as safe for all food and beverage contact. Americans have come to increasingly rely on the presence of safe, colorful, attractive, useful, dependable glass throughout our environment.
Integrated Client Networking - a utility-based networking solution that includes a full set of advanced network features packaged on a per-port basis. • Managed Storage - hosted servers that can connect to partitioned disk resources provisioned on multi-tenant storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) platforms. data backup services - efficiently back up data residing on hosted servers to common tape and disk platforms as an alternative to using dedicated backup infrastructure.
The lack of direction at national level over what is meant by sustainability and which policies could be considered sustainable mean that definitions and the strategies for implementing 'sustainable' urban regeneration have tended to reflect the political and philosophical position of those posing the definition and enacting the regeneration.
Robinson, however, writes that this may be a strength, that a constructive ambiguity can lead definitions to emerge from attempts to implement sustainable policies rather than defining it from the beginning. For example, Mendes (2005) studied how food policy is used to promote social sustainability in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver adopted a food policy for the poor in December 2003. However, there were concerns about the appropriateness of such a policy in a city committed to competitiveness and perhaps unable to assign resources to an activity not seen as part of mainstream urban governance.
So the typical measurement parameters for high performance cluster about matters of human comfort (such as heating, air conditioning, air quality, light quality, sound quality, water quality, comfort, convenience, ambience, etc.) and matters of long-term economy and sustainability (such as initial cost, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, resource scarcity, resource efficiency, renewability, operational efficiency, maintenance, etc.).
Two important concepts employed in determining high performance are embodied energy — the amount of energy ‘embodied’ in a given material or product via bringing it to the point of use, through extraction, reclamation, transport, processing, sale and distribution, etc. — and life cycle analysis (or LCA) — the process of analyzing all the costs of a material, product or assembly from its ‘cradle to grave’, i.e. from its point of extraction from raw resource materials to its deposition in a waste stream, or its recycling or reclamation to another use.
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