Sustainable Concepts You Should Know

Paris Climate Agreement

A UN agreement with 195 countries to keep average temperature below 2 degree celsius above industry era levels.

A scientific report from 91 scientists on the impacts of warming the client above 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

17 goals from agreed by the UN member states for a better future of humanity in balance with nature to achieve by 2030.

Non profit organization that analyzed and presented the top 80 solutions to reducing CO2 emissions.

We need to consider the full life cycle of all products we produce to return them to a circular balanced ecosystem.

A new way to view our economy that recognizes our planetary ecological limits.

A way to look at the need for intense immediate action needed by the government to address climate change.

Potential government legislation, programs, investments, incentives in the country to reduce CO2 emissions and prevent climate change.

To measure the environmental impact of a product’s full life from sourcing materials, producing, distributing, disposing, and recycling.

How to measure and report on how much of earths resources it takes to exist for an individual, product, business, house, city, or country.

LEED and Living Building Challenge certify a building is more sustainable and healthy.

The Native Americans lived in balance with nature for thousands of year before industrial times. We can learn from them.

Certified companies with a triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit.

Humans feel good in nature and our built environment should connect us with nature.

Design strategy to be in balance with nature, using natural systems, and sustaining human community.

You can donate money to projects that remove carbon from the air to balance the carbon you emit into the air.

Reusing unwanted materials into new products without too much processing like recycling.

Previous land used and controlled by humans are converted back to nature to make them wild again.