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Cradle-to-cradle design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Waterfox

Cradle-to-cradle design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Waterfox
Cradle to Cradle design (also referred to as Cradle to Cradle, C2C, cradle 2 cradle, or regenerative design) is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems. It models human industry on nature's processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. It suggests that industry must protect and enrich ecosystems and nature's biological metabolism while also maintaining a safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of organic and technical nutrients.[1] Put simply, it is a holistic economic, industrial and social framework that seeks to create systems that are not only efficient but also essentially waste free.[2] The model in its broadest sense is not limited to industrial design and manufacturing; it can be applied to many aspects of human civilization such as urban environments, buildings, economics and social systems. Introduction[edit] Biological and Technical Cycles Biological and technical cycle Health[edit]

Life-cycle assessment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Waterfox Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis)[1] is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave (i.e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling). LCAs can help avoid a narrow outlook on environmental concerns by: Compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases;Evaluating the potential impacts associated with identified inputs and releases;Interpreting the results to help make a more informed decision.[2] Life Cycle Assessment Overview Goals and purpose[edit] The goal of LCA is to compare the full range of environmental effects assignable to products and services in order to improve processes, support policy and provide a sound basis for informed decisions.[3] There are two main types of LCA. Four main phases[edit]

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series): Jocelyn K. Glei, 99U: 9781477800676: Amazon.com: Books Beyond Green Roofs: 15 Vertically Vegetated Buildings | WebEcoist - Waterfox Vertical gardens bring lush, verdant life to even the coldest and barest of surfaces, both indoors and out. These ‘living walls’ are a big part of the future of green design and technology – they increase interior humidity, purify the air and provide a much-needed touch of nature in spare, angular urban spaces like airports, museums and shopping centers. From skyscraper farms to vertical parks, here are 15 green buildings with stunning vertical greenery, from 6-story elevator shafts to subterranean restaurants. Edificio Consorcio, Santiago, Chile (images via: Plataforma Arquitectura) The Concorcio Building in Santiago, Chile is one of the world’s most eco-friendly office complexes. Bardessono Hotel Vertical Tillandsia Garden (images via: Land + Living) Not all vertical gardens even need soil or irrigation at all. Urban Plant (images via: World Architecture) This architectural design proposal called ‘Urban Plant’ envisions a new way to deal with producing food for urban city dwellers.

The Art Of Giving Feedback Editor’s note: Allison Hopkins is the vice president of people at Hampton Creek, where she assists in the growth of its business, people and culture. At Hampton Creek we ask, “What would it look like if we started over?” This drives our business philosophy. The one area we have focused on is giving and receiving feedback. Feedback can be real and easy. Let’s start with the formal aspect of feedback at most organizations: the dreaded performance-review process. Forms are filled out and the parties discuss the good, the bad and the ugly. Over the last few years some have attempted more creativity, adding 360 reviews, quarterly feedback sessions, goal setting, anonymous feedback and external third-party feedback-gathering. Where feedback gets sticky and uncomfortable is when the giver and the receiver don’t respect or trust each other. The best feedback can be done easily and build trust. Feedback can be difficult to give, especially when it deals with behavior or a character flaw.

Dr. Albert Bartlett's "Laws of Sustainability" At the Denver ASPO conference, I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Albert Bartlett. Afterward, Dr. The Laws that follow are offered to define the term "sustainability." These Laws are believed to hold rigorously. The list is but a single compilation, and hence may be incomplete. First Law: Population growth and / or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained. A) A population growth rate less than or equal to zero and declining rates of consumption of resources are a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for a sustainable society. Second Law: In a society with a growing population and / or growing rates of consumption of resources, the larger the population, and / or the larger the rates of consumption of resources, the more difficult it will be to transform the society to the condition of sustainability. Third Law: The response time of populations to changes in the human fertility rate is the average length of a human life, or approximately 70 years. U.S.

How Ideo Redesigned Monday to Be Less Awful Your bad Monday actually starts on Sunday. Hours before your alarm jolts you awake, your mind is already stockpiling anxieties about the week ahead. The commute, the meetings, the hours in front of a computer. Then Monday happens and guess what: It’s not nearly as painful as you thought it was going to be. “Monday in the abstract is really bad,” says Ingrid Fetell, a design director at Ideo’s New York office. How exactly does one go about redesigning a day? First: Make The Act Of Waking Up More Pleasant Waking up sucks. The prototype clock is a simple piece of wood that rocks back and forth, as though it’s reeling from a bout of tickles. Not surprisingly, our brains associate certain colors and shapes with certain emotions. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Second: Find Reasons To Be Happy So you’re up. Their solution is PopUp, an app that scrapes your calendar for unseen moments of joy. Its physical counterpart is a funny little gadget that blows a bubble every time you have a meeting.

11 Incredible Living Walls | Chemically Green The idea of a living wall conjures up all sorts of images, but in reality it is nothing more than a wall completely covered in vegetation. In order to create a living wall pre-vegetated or fabric panels containing plastic containers, or geotextiles, as well as irrigation systems and vegetation are attached to the wall or supporting structure. This form of urban gardening is often designed as an art form to decorate buildings in cities and has been hailed as one way to make cities more enjoyable, healthier and ultimately greener places. 1. Musee du Quai Branly [Paris] One of the best loved vertical gardens inhabits the walls of the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. 2. This 714 foot structure in downtown Toronto, Canada is a superb example of how living walls and vertical gardens can actually be profitable as well as beautiful. 3. Another amazing living wall design created by Patrick Blanc, the CaixaForum museum has become a popular tourist attraction largely thanks to this creation. 4. 5.

Conference recap: Future of Web Design London The Future of Web Design: London boasted a packed house of incredible attendees, awesomely informative talks and fun sponsor activities, like a cocktail party for industry folk, etch-a-sketch logo design contests, and a walking tour of signage and typography in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood. But the content truly rocked this show. Here’s a few highlights from my favorites. “The Art of Deception” by Stephen Hay Benevolent deception is present in UIs all around us. These deceptions give us the illusion of control. Every design choice you make falls into 1 of 2 camps: you’re either frustrating your user or delighting them. Use fewer props: Only include what’s absolutely necessary—ditch the rest. Check out all the slides. “Getting there faster: rapid prototyping and iteration” by Billy Kiely Now, the most creative people in companies are tackling much larger business problems than basic design challenges. Here's 3 tips to help you shift your design process in the right direction: 1. 2. 3.

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Win this beautiful Jeff Sheldon print You all loved this design by Jeff Sheldon so much, we're giving you another chance to make it your own—this time as a print! And all it takes to make it yours is 1 lucky tweet. Oh—and if you don't win this time around, don't despair. You'll have another chance to make it your very own very soon. Don’t know Jeff Sheldon? He’s the founder and design mind behind Ugmonk. Design tips, tricks, and freebies. Join over 800,000 designers who get our content first. John Moore WilliamsI'm the Director of Content Strategy here at InVision. Sustainability Achieving sustainability will enable the Earth to continue supporting human life. In ecology, sustainability is how biological systems remain diverse and productive. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture.[1] Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.[2] Healthy ecosystems and environments are necessary to the survival of humans and other organisms. Etymology[edit] The name sustainability is derived from the Latin sustinere (tenere, to hold; sub, up). Components[edit] Three pillars of sustainability[edit] Circles of sustainability[edit] Resiliency[edit] History[edit] Principles and concepts[edit] Scale and context[edit] Consumption[edit] Measurement[edit] 1.

Frictionless Design Choices No one wants friction in their products. Everyone works to reduce it. Yet it sneaks in everywhere. We collectively praise a service, app, or design that masterfully reduces friction. We also appreciate minimalism. Frictionless and minimalism are related but not necessarily the same. A design can be minimal but still have a great deal of friction. Minimalist design is about reducing the surface area of an experience. When debating a design choice, feature addition, or product direction it can help to clarify whether a point of view originates from a perspective of keeping things minimal or reducing friction. Product managers need to choose features to add. Therefore the real design challenge is not simply maintaining minimalism, but enhancing a product without adding more friction. When you look back you will be amazed at how the surface area of the product has expanded and how your view of minimalism has changed. There’s an additional design challenge. Low-Friction Design Patterns

Sustainability: Planning's Redemption or Curse? For many, the planning profession lost direction, credibility and apparent societal value during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Recently, this loss has been partially offset by an increased concern about planning for the environment. For both planners and many members of wider society, 'sustainability' has become the defining term to denote these wider environmental concerns and their appropriate responses. More importantly, this ideal of a sustainable future, understandably, has wide public support. The Deceptive Use of "Sustainability" for Non-Sustainable Ends Driven by concerns of the adverse impacts of global warming, the government of the United Kingdom recently appears to have jumped strongly on the sustainability bandwagon, as have many American states. Sustainability, even if a fuzzy, ill-defined, concept, has now reached the near-universal status of being a desired concept of 'good'. Economic Growth Policies Ignore Environment and Equity

User-centered design in Netflix’s House of Cards Today, Netflix released Season 3 of House of Cards (HoC)— the first of a suite of Netflix original series that told big cable that online streaming is here to stay. Amazon also heard this message loud and clear, responding with its own lineup of original content. At some point, HBO realized the inevitable loss in market share if it also didn’t find some way to compete, hence rumors of an impending standalone subscription plan for HBOGO, a complementary service currently limited to existing HBO television subscribers. Instead, Netflix has solved one of the weaknesses of releasing entire swathes of content at once — the long-term negative effects of binge-watching. This phenomenon is well-documented. Interestingly, this benefited the start of HoC Season 2. We waited the entire episode. Now, Season 3 is upon us — and with it, the Season 2 recap.

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