Sustainability is a word that is pronounced many times more than what is understood, and for this reason it has lost its precise meaning. what we understand by sustainable development not only encompasses the broad concept of respectful development environmentally friendly but also focuses on socially just development .
Its social, economic and environmental dimension can be encompassed in what we could describe as resources enough for everyone and who intends to get three main goals:
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Sustainable development is the process to preserve, conserve and protect the natural resources of the planet in benefit of current and future generations.
What is the origin? The conception of sustainable development appears for the first time in the Stockholm Declaration (1972, Principle 2). Subsequently, the Brundtland Report known as Our Future Común defined it with the famous phrase:
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (CMMAD, 1987:24).
Main features of development sustainable:
The definition of developed sustainable has the objective of homogeneity and coherence between growth economic and material resources of the population and the exploitation of the natural resources avoiding compromising life in the planet, whether of human beings or of nature and biodiversity on Earth.
The strategy for sustainable use tends to promote the harmonious relationships of human beings between and nature a . we can see examples from these environmental projects and ideas ecological that really surprise.
The expressions of the development model sustainable are very similar to the term sustainable development or development enduring . But, in reality they have connotations different, although in many countries the terms are used for the same.
Why is there so much confusion between the concepts of sustainable and sustainable? The term in English « sustainable » if it transferred to the Spanish language, it has two concepts: sustainable and sustainable. In English there is no such difference. (From translations comes "chaos").
From here, we must understand that both the sustainable and sustainable development are concepts that comes from economics and encompasses a "vision" of how they should do things :
In summary, in both cases, it is vital not to compromise the current and future generations:
As sustainability aims to satisfy everyone with a coherent responsibility and a balance between economic growth, the resources provided by the nature and the modern society of well-being. In 2015, the UN, which includes world leaders, adopted some global goals to protect the planet and eradicate poverty:
Although the sustainable concept is very broad and sometimes distorted. from a perspective coherent, is based on ideas sustainable :
We can identify that sustainable development or sustainability is based on developing strategies on three factors: society, economy and environment atmosphere .
It is the moment in which we focus before the social aspects of sustainable growth , we look at issues that affect people and civil society, directly and that either assist or harm the process to improve the quality of life . with particular attention in social responsibility and sustainable urban planning .
See an interesting article on how ecological urbanism and green helps us or an interesting article from the newspaper El País on «Young people cannot be considered as a vulnerable group, but as one of the main assets of change to face the problems of the world.”
In general, when we focus on the direction of a economy and its future from a perspective balanced , we look at the system that determines which how limited resources are distributed and their ability to use them, while at the same time examining what options are used at all levels and by whom needs from the scope of resources cheap.
We examine and determine the resources natural resources , both renewable and non-renewable, which in ultimately make up our surroundings – habitats – and help us to sustain and improve our lives and that of the natural environment where is inhabited (See also what is an ecosystem for understand the relationship with the natural environment, diversity and the they should be, as well as the necessary balance)
The three factors of sustainability are developed according to sectors:
But there are some more points that we should know…
Let's not forget that companies and products also relapse into the need to establish inflection points in the sustainability from the production of the product , its transportation to the way of selling it, both to benefit our image how to support the benefits that they entail before the environment or apply new methods of innovation sustainability in the company.
Here we must understand the process, and for this, we have wanted to provide an infographic to clarify the concepts.
The balance in the commodity supply chain provides us with various benefits and advantages, and an environment propitious and consistent industry in the face of possible competition, in addition to being able to maintain some resources natural and artificial without exploiting them excessively.
For years, many countries have taken seriously the thematic by creating ministries – secretariats with legislation that regulate more forcefully. For example:
And many other countries; Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, etc, that we would not stop naming. The concern is globally and we must all move forward with coherence.
We believe that to better understand the meaning of decrease, the following video responds in a perfect…
We must establish a guide route and for this the WBCSD published an interesting report called «Vision 2050«. A guide document that established guidelines to search for a starting point where companies will interact with the governments and with organizations that will elucidate together how can achieve a better future.
Wanted to satisfy several questions: How would be a more sustainable world? How could we achieve it? What role can companies play to quickly reach that goal? How to act? who will order or order? because it's interesting? or as achieve it? ….
Given these situations, they propose a road map that different points through 2020 and 2050. We believe that it is interest show schematic:
As we can identify, it is not only about contributing values to people, improve ethics or influence cultural aspects, implement programs of action or
Other factors and sectors influence such as development human , aspects of the economy social security and its instruments, agricultural production and sustainable agriculture , forests, urban mobility...etc. So we should ask ourselves… what we will have to take into account and globally if we want a better future?
Note: We can understand more from the twelve guidelines for sustainable cities before smart urban development indicators.
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An project example in architecture sustainable, for the designer – focusing on the architecture – is complex.
Much of sustainable design is related with energy savings , through the use of techniques such as the analysis of the cycle of life applied to products and production processes, in order to maintain the balance between capital initial invested and the value of fixed assets in the long run term.
We start with a little gem!… A project of how recycle plastic with your own machine. You can now build a homemade recycling device for plastics easily and thanks to design engineer Dave Hakkens… HERE to see more and although the images seem to be false, they are they can do all of them in a simple way.
Globally, the Startup competition is also held Weekends Sustainable Revolution "sustainable revolution" where Ideas from all over the world participate, always from an environmental perspective of sustainability and with the motto "sustainable revolution". Web consultation from global-sustainable-revolution.com. Plans are presented and voted worldwide, and the truth is they are quite interesting!
Projecting in a sustainable way means creating spaces that are healthy, economically viable and sensitive to the social needs. By itself, responsible design from the energy point of view is of little value. (Of interest the healthy architecture article with an excellent guide)
A sustainable architectural project and interesting is the Recooperation (The winners of this contest were Spaniards, María García Méndez and Gonzalo Navarrete Mancebo, members of the team Improvised ). It consists of a strategy future for the Orba neighborhood, in the metropolitan periphery of Valencia – Spain .
Given the high unemployment rate and the lack of of typological and energetic adaptation of the dwellings, proposes a series of interventions at various scales based on the activity of its inhabitants.
Some important aspects are the restoration of the continuity of ecosystems, the use of know-how of neighbours, the creation of new shared spaces or the introduction of a community exchange system spaces, goods and services.
For a better visualization of the project there is a video of reference HERE.
It should be noted that in the portal masshousingcompetition.org we can find different sustainable projects of great value.
Taking into account that the network is creating high-value responses in sustainable urbanism. From the article googlemaps and architecture urban we show different ways of exploring spaces and understand the "before and after" of performances architectural that prioritize the user.
We want to leave a documentary called “Stop, Filming the Change“ that is simply worth seeing. The mistakes humans before life and the negative impact of «Capitalism» in a society that appears to be less and less human but at the same time will need new strategies of management if we want to move in the right direction.
This story begins at the conscious foundations of education that humans receive from childhood and misconceptions of social development , such as the lack of solidarity, the issue of volunteering, the understand a problem and turn a blind eye, the deforestation, pollution and change climate change , poverty, inequality, the ability to be responsible, the bad or non-existent administration of all natural resources of the planet that will be a great problem for generations to come…etc.
We want to add a little more value to the article, so We have searched for some resources of interest to our readers as well as a series of PDF documents in the form of manuals.
Within the great Internet network we can find different online courses of sustainability related to the theme.
A few free and others for payment, aimed at training and understanding the usefulness of different tools to learn ideas environmentally and friendly, economically profitable or socially responsible that are based on experiences and projects of special relevance.
We provide a selection of the most interesting and economically viable to learn:
As a matter of fact, there is an initiative of the United Nations which aims to offer learning solutions relevant sustainable development issues to individuals and organizations. Every month they add courses and, although there are many in English, it's an excellent place to learn:
Although later dealing with a series of PDF guides, We want to leave a book that was edited by Juan Luis Doménech Quesada.
For a better understanding of the concept, we wanted to provide a series of PDF documents in the form of manuals.
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