Sustainable Development
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From  To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Daniel Maskell; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
 Toward Sustainable CommunitiesSolutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition |
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, … | 257 | View | ||
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From  Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in PerpetuityFrom: Resilience Imperative |
The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Voices from the Past–Economic Growth and its CriticsFrom: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the author takes the reader through major economic thinkers of the past, and their unique conceptualizations of growth. | Peter Victor A. | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Water Use in the HomeFrom: Dry Run |
Let’s take a look now at residential water use, something that most of us are quite familiar with. The sources of water use inside the home with almost 60 percent goes for shower, toilet … | Jerry Yudelson | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From Wood: Like Never Before |
This chapter explores the role of wood in building efficient and modern buildings. | Andrew Lawrence; Francis Yang | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From Zen WaterFrom: Dry Run |
In the green building movement, there is a “hyper-green” approach called restorative or regenerative building, which generates more water and energy than it uses and puts this excess … | Jerry Yudelson | 9 | 2010 | $0.90 Add |
