Topic 8 Flashcards
Define: Tripple Bottom Line
Social: The human impact of your product/company
Financial: The financial incentives of profit
Environmental: The environmental impact of your product/company
Define: Decoupling
Decoupling disconnects economic growth and environmental impact so that one no longer depends on the other
List: Sustainable Consumer Groups
Eco-warriors: They protest and fight for environmental change
Eco-champions: They promote eco-friendly alternatives within their institutions
Eco-fans: people who passively encourage/use eco-friendly alternatives when easily available
Eco-phobes: people who actively resent environmental activism.
Green Vs. Sustainable Design
Timeframe, green design focuses on the here and now while sustainable design focuses on 50 years in the future.
Define: Datschefski’s Five principles of Sustainable Design
Cyclic: The product is made from compostable, organic materials or from minerals that are recycled in a continuous loop.
Solar: The product in use consumes only renewable energy that is cyclic and safe
Safe: All releases to air, water, land, or space are food for other systems
Efficient: Requiring 90% less energy, materials, and water than equivalent products in 1990.
Social: Its manufacture and use support basic human rights and natural justice.
Sustainable Innovation - Top-down vs. bottom-up
Top-down: environmental investment from large groups such as governments who give out grants etc.
Bottom-up: efforts by local activist movements to encourage sustainable innovation.
Macro & Micro Energy Sustainability
Macro: Focuses on how a nation utilizes energy in a sustainable manner
Micro: Focuses on local initiatives and smaller energy projects
