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Passive solar techniques, alternative toilet and sewage systems, thermal massing designs, basement battery systems, efficient windowing, and the array of other design tactics require some degree of non-standard construction, added expense, ongoing experimentation and maintenance, and also have an effect on the psychology of the space.
GDMC (short for Generative Design in Minecraft) is a programming competition to create procedurally generated settlements in Minecraft. [1] The competition is organized by academics from New York University , the University of Hertfordshire and the Queen Mary University of London .
Self-sustainability is a type of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed other than what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, food storage, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic, and the back-to-the-land movement.
Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the use of Earth's natural resources by an individual or society. Its practitioners often attempt to reduce their ecological footprint (including their carbon footprint) by altering their home designs and methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.
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The sustainable design intends to "eliminate negative environmental impact through skillful sensitive design". [1] Manifestations of sustainable design require renewable resources and innovation to impact the environment minimally, and connect people with the natural environment. "Human beings don't have a pollution problem; they have a design ...
It could be self-sustainable, employing all or most of its own available resources for a comfortable life: power, climate control, food production, air and water conservation and purification, sewage treatment, etc. An arcology is designed to make it possible to supply those items for a large population.
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