Announcements and Reminders Exam #1 – For new grade: add +3 points, then calculate score out of 88 points total. – NOTE: Additional curve possible based on Exam #2 performance. Friday, March 5 – Pre-Activity 8.3.3 (Low-Flow) Monday, March 8 – DUE: Post-Activity and Bonus Turn-in 8.1.1 – DUE: Pre-Activity 9.1.1 (complete prior to class) – Homework #3 Released Wednesday, March 10 – DUE: Project #2 Posters and Presentations Friday, March 12 – DUE: Project #2 Executive Summary – NO CLASS!
Announcements and Reminders. Exam #1 For new grade: add +3 points, then calculate score out of 88 points total. NOTE: Additional curve possible based on Exam #2 performance. Friday, March 5 Pre-Activity 8.3.3 (Low-Flow) Monday, March 8 DUE: Post-Activity and Bonus Turn-in 8.1.1 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Announcements and Reminders Exam #1
– For new grade: add +3 points, then calculate score out of 88 points total.– NOTE: Additional curve possible based on Exam #2 performance.
Friday, March 5– Pre-Activity 8.3.3 (Low-Flow)
Monday, March 8– DUE: Post-Activity and Bonus Turn-in 8.1.1– DUE: Pre-Activity 9.1.1 (complete prior to class)– Homework #3 Released
Wednesday, March 10– DUE: Project #2 Posters and Presentations
Friday, March 12– DUE: Project #2 Executive Summary– NO CLASS!
Learning Objectives
Be able to define sustainability, including in social, environmental, and economic terms, and through the use of relevant examples.
Understand how sustainable design principles and concepts are related to systems thinking.
Be able to define basic principles of cradle to cradle design.
Be able to define concepts of energy efficiency, payback, and footprint.
Be able to perform simple payback calculations.
Be able to perform basic footprint calculations.
Case Study #2: Interface Carpet As you watch the video, can you identify how it relates to the
social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainability?
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
- John Muir
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
- John Muir
Sustainability and Systems Thinking
Remember: A focus on relationships rather than individual parts. This can include technology, social aspects, environmental and economic impacts.
Source: McDonough and Braungart, 2006
Cradle to Cradle Design“[M]oving from the lean production of potentially degenerative technology to the clean production of potentially regenerative technology.”
“A framework in which the safe regenerative productivity of nature provides models for wholly positive human designs. Working from this perspective, we do not aim to be less bad. Instead, our design assignment is to create a world of interdependent natural and human systems powered by the sun in which safe, healthful materials flow in regenerative cycles, elegantly and equitably deployed for the benefit of all.”
- McDonough and Braungart, 2006
Cradle to Cradle Design
• Products and processes that minimize harm to people and environment WHILE enhancing people’s health and regenerate environment
• Products that when their useful life is over, do not become useless waste but become nutritious food for plants and animals or renewable high-quality materials for new products
• Buildings that produce more energy than they consume and purify their own waste water
• Transportation that improves the quality of life while delivering goods and services
• Add environmentally or socially beneficial features to traditional design
William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002)
Sustainability: Tools and Concepts Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is the quality of being able to do a task successfully without wasting energy.
Example: More Energy-Efficient Water Heating• Reduce your hot water use • Lower water heating temperature• Insulate your water heater tank• Insulate hot water pipes• Install heat traps on a water heater take• Install a timer and use off-peak power for an electric water heater• Install a drain-water heat recovery system• Install a more energy efficient water heater
Changing lights from T-12 light bulbs to T-8 light bulbs is a common energy and cost saving measure in commercial buildings.
A 4 lamp T-12 fixture (180 Watts) can be replaced with a 3 lamp T-12 fixture (88 Watts) for about $67.50. If the lamps are on 12 hours a day, 275 days a year at a cost of 9.5 ¢ / kWh, what is the simple payback?
Cost of the T12
Cost of the T8
Simple Payback
€
12hrs
day×275days
yr×$0.095
kWh×kWh
1000Wh×180W = $56.43/ yr
€
12hrs
day×275days
yr×$0.095
kWh×kWh
1000Wh× 88W = $27.59/ yr
€
SPB =$67.50
$56.43/ yr − $27.59/ yr= 2.3 years
Energy Savings Model for Light Bulbs
4-lamp T12 magnetic retrofitted to 4-lamp T8 electronicNote: Blue cells are variables that can be changed
Environmental Impacts: Footprints Ecological footprint – total amount of
land and sea needed to provide all resources for, and absorb all wastes of, a given human population.
Water footprint – total amount of water consumed by a person or organization per unit of time.
Carbon footprint - amount of greenhouse gases emitted by a person, organization, process per unit of time. Likely represents ~50% of humanity’s total ecological footprint.