Apps para profissionais que investem em projetos sustentáveis

Um guia exclusivo de aplicativos para arquitetos e designers ecologicamente corretos. 

Aos poucos o mercado de apps abre espaço para um nova categoria que foca, especificamente, em arquitetos e designers que trabalham com projetos sustentáveis. Essas ferramentas podem orientar o profissional na concepção do projeto e, também, durante sua execução. Por exemplo, alguns aplicativos permitem calcular e controlar o consumo de energia de uma casa ou prédio, analisar a construção de acordo com o posicionamento do sol para melhor aproveitamento da energia solar ou, simplesmente, servir de guia na hora de comprar materiais que terão pouco ou nenhum impacto no meio-ambiente.

Conheça algumas opções gratuitas disponíveis no mercado:

1.GreenWave Reality

Cada vez mais, investe-se na construção de casas inteligentes que permitem ao morador monitorar e controlar o consumo de energia remotamente. Esse app gratuito é um exemplo, pois permite usar o smartphone para acender e apagar as luzes de todos os ambientes da casa.

2. Sun Surveyor (Sol e a Lua)

É indispensável para arquitetos e paisagistas que querem criar projetos sustentáveis. Com esse app, o profissional pode desenvolver o projeto de uma casa ou jardim de acordo com a posição do sol visando aproveitamento da energia solar.

3. Nest Mobile

Com esse aplicativo é possível controlar e monitorar a temperatura ambiente da casa e, o mais importante, checar alarmes que vão indicar emissões de monóxido de carbono ou possíveis focos de incêndio.

4. Buildings

Serve como fonte de inspiração para arquitetos ao exibir imagens de mais de 40 mil construções ao redor do mundo. Mais que isso, o profissional terá acesso a exemplos de prédios inteligentes focados em projetos ecológicos.

Conteúdo exclusivo para este Portal de AndroidLista 

Com informações relevantes e conteúdo original, o objetivo do site é oferecer aos seus usuários os melhores apps do mercado e promover a interação deste público que não para de crescer.

O site foi criado por entusiastas de visão que desejam mais que simplesmente oferecer um aglomerado de aplicativos, mas sim inovar a experiência dos usuários trazendo opiniões sinceras, conteúdos originais e informações relevantes.

O Android Lista reúne cerca de 450 mil aplicativos para download e classificados em mais de 3,5 mil diferentes categorias para facilitar a busca do usuário.

Os aplicativos são testados e avaliados pela equipe do site, formada por jornalistas e blogueiros apaixonados pelo sistema Android.

O site traz ainda um blog com novidades e informações sobre os melhores aplicativos e jogos do país e do mundo. Visite, conheça, compartilhe e desça os aplicativos!

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Tempo de consumismo insustentável para festas sustentáveis! #adoteestedia

Finalmente, chegamos ao Natal e Ano Novo, tempo de perdão, amor e compaixão. 

Mas para quem? De quem para quem?

Milhões de arvores são cortadas no mundo inteiro para virarem arvores de Natal que depois vão para o lixo.

Milhões de animais são sacrificados para ter um belo e farto jantar.

Milhões de brinquedos tóxicos feitos por trabalho escravo estarão na mão de nossos seres queridos.

Sustentabilidade? Ética? Consciência?
Isso deixamos para o Papai e Mamãe Noel e sua trupe de anões. Eles que se preocupem se o Polo Norte vai derreter ou não.

Veja texto sobre isso no blog amigo "Síndrome do Mundo Moderno" de @Sindrominha

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Urantia

Para começar o ano com uma perspectiva nova da vida no planeta Terra.....

"O livro de Urântia, publicado pela primeira vez pela Fundação Urântia em 1955, foi escrito por seres celestiais como uma revelação especial para o nosso planeta, Urântia. 

 A mensagem do livro é a de que todos os seres humanos são uma só família, filhos e filhas de um único Deus, o Pai Universal. 

Ele versa sobre a gênese, história e destino da humanidade e seu relacionamento com Deus. 
Também apresenta um detalhado e único retrato da vida e ensinamentos de Jesus, abrindo novas visões sobre o tempo e a eternidade, revelando novos conceitos da jornada de aventuras do homem até o encontro com o Pai Universal em nosso amigável e cuidadosamente administrado universo. 

 A visão d'O Livro Urântia sobre ciência, filosofia e religião é, talvez, a mais clara e concisa integração destes assuntos disponível para o homem moderno...."

                                                                    Urantia - Brasil

The Urantia Book, first published by Urantia Foundation in 1955, claims to have been presented by celestial beings as a revelation to our planet, Urantia.

The writings in The Urantia Book instruct us on the genesis, history, and destiny of humanity and on our relationship with God the Father. 

They present a unique and compelling portrayal of the life and teachings of Jesus. They open new vistas of time and eternity to the human spirit, and offer new details of our ascending adventure in a friendly and carefully administered universe.

                                                                 The Urantia book (English, Spanish, Portuguese site)

Green Map Initiative

Conheça o excelente projeto "Green Map" que nasceu de maneira colaborativa nos Estados Unidos em 1995 e que agora cobre 800 cidades em 65 países.

O proposito de Green Map é:

• Fortalecer redes sustentáveis locais e globais
• Aumentar a demanda e oferta de escolhas mais verdes e saudaveis
• Ajudar que as iniciativas de sucesso sejam conhecidas e aplicadas por outras comunidades locais-globais
• O  bem estar da comunidade local-global com a construção de uma "cultura-ações-ferramentas-habilidades sustentáveis" para beneficio local e global

                                        THINK GLOBAL, MAP LOCAL!

                                                 GREEN MAP SITE

                                     Veja os mapas disponíveis para o Brasil

Designing for Sustainability

"Lifecycle Management Strategies: Designing Products for Sustainability and Profitability"

Learn how Going Green is the answer for your company's future profitability and efficiency.

A number of external pressures are making Going Green a top concern for manufacturing executives. 

Globally, governments are exerting pressure on businesses to do more in reducing the negative impact their operations have on the environment.

Along with that, businesses are feeling the pressure from the physical world as well. 

Even if it is possible for these companies to ignore the impact their operations have on such things as carbon emissions, there is no way they can ignore the shortages of natural resources. 

A shortage of resources that go into your products, or are necessary to make or move your products, is a direct threat to the success of your business. 

To learn more, download this executive brief inside, you will find information in regard to issues such as:

• What is Green and Why Go Green Now?
• Lean Materials Management
• Modeling the environmental impact of your product
• Reducing your carbon footprint

Receive Your Complimentary Executive Brief at: Greenprofs

Amsterdam´s Repair Cafe - Platform 21

An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time

Amsterdam’s Repair Cafe encourages people to bring old items that they might have otherwise thrown out to have them restored by expert volunteers.

Read the article at NYT:
Repair Café

Platform21 = Repairing started with the idea that repair is underestimated as a creative, cultural and economic force.
If we don’t consider repair a contemporary activity we will loose an incredibly rich body of knowledge – one that contributes to human independence and pleasure.

The situation is especially puzzling when you consider current global interest in other ideas related to sustainability, such as recycling and the cradle-to-cradle philosophy.

With Platform21 = Repairing we aimed to raise awareness of a mentality, a culture and a practice that not so long ago was completely integrated into life and the way we designed it.

In the hope of spurring a reappraisal of repair, Platform21 wrote and published a manifesto describing the benefits of fixing things and calling upon designers and consumers to break the chain of throwaway thinking.

Throwaway thinking, a culture in itself almost, is designed to cater to short term needs of both industry, politics and society. But by being very successful at short term effects it has lost track of the innumerable and rich possibilities that lie ahead if durable notions of design in general, and repair especially, are reconsidered and implemented.

In the slipstream of the Repair Manifesto Platform21 organized workshops, an exhibition, lectures and repair evaluation clinics both with professional designers, students, amateurs, as well as the general public. 

It is in the richness of the pallet we wanted to present, from the mildly absurd positions of some of the participants involved, to the completely functional, logical and directly implementable techniques of others. Maybe the most important quality of repair is to give your products a longer life, but this is not the only quality. Repairing adds your personality to products, teaches us how things are made and how to take care of things. It gives a sense of accomplishment and control, and not least important, it is fun. 

So, STOP RECYCLING. START REPAIRING.

Open Acess: Sustainability Journal

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; CODEN: SUSTDE), an international and cross-disciplinary, scholarly, open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of human beings, which provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, is published by MDPI online monthly.

Open Access at: Sustainability Journal

Making green in the new sharing economy

Swap, Don't Shop - Making Green in the New Sharing Economy

By Jacquie Ottman and Cassidy Hooker

With the development of social networking sites, user-generated content, and increased access to broadband technologies and personal computers, the Internet has been radically redefined and repositioned. 

This shift towards "Web 2.0" has changed the way we communicate with one another; it has democratized the way in which information is shared amongst users; and it has collapsed geographic, political, and cultural barriers, in turn redefining our perception of community. While it can be hard to grasp in specific terms how exactly the Internet has changed us, there is one very tangible way in which it has made an impact. 

The development of "redistribution markets"-sites where users can exchange, sell, or share goods, services, and space-has been a defining aspect of Web 2.0.

The idea of Sharing, Collaborating, and Reselling is Nothing New -- But Now

Neighbors in tight-knit communities have always borrowed an egg in a pinch; we've probably all carpooled for convenience at some point; and girlfriends have forever swapped clothes with each other. What's unique about these behaviors today is how easily facilitated they are by the Internet and social media in particular. In the days before all things digital, you had to know your neighbors well enough to knock on their door, you knew who was driving where and when, or you had to have friends to give your things to. Now there are a plethora of sites ready to help you buy, swap, or donate just about anything you may need.

Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption

This exchanging of resources-time, money, space, skills, and products-hits at the crux of what is being called the "sharing economy", or "collaborative consumption". Looking at the ways in which Web 2.0 has facilitated this new economy sheds light on how the online user-driven marketplace has impacted our understanding of, and relationship with, the concepts of ownership and community. As we shift towards an economy that values access over ownership, significant opportunities for marketplace innovation emerge. 

Jacquelyn Ottman is an expert adviser on green marketing to Fortune 500 firms, entrepreneurial companies, and the U.S. government. 

She is the author of The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding (Berrett-Koehler, 2011). 

She is also the founding co-chair of the Sustainable Business Committee of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York.

MORE INFO AT: Green Marketing

Sustainable Design - A Critical Guide

"The fact that we live in a closed system with limited and dwindling resources is something many of us prefer, or choose, not to think about. But this concept of finite planet should be seen as an opportunity for designers to implement impactful, forward-thinking, and broad-reaching change. In this spirit of “eco-optimism,” Sustainable Design: A Critical Guidenavigates the array of issues related to sustainability in clear and helpful terms.

Written for students and professionals, this books presents a concise and well-illustrated overview of the most important techniques available for reducing energy footprints, along with the professional context for their use. In addition to tackling the discipline’s ethical responsibility, each chapter takes on specific considerations such as rainwater harvesting, gray-water recycling, passive heating techniques, green roofs, wind energy, daylighting, indoor air quality, material evaluation, and green building certification programs. Founded in the three Rs of environmentalism—reduce, reuse, and recycle—Sustainable Designencompasses a critical fourth: rethink.

Chapters:
1. Ecodesign: What and Why
2. Site Issues
3. Water Efficiency
4. Energy Efficiency: Passive Techniques
5. Energy Efficiency: Active Techniques
6. Indoor Environmental Quality
7. Materials
8. Labels and Ratings: Measuring Ecodesign
9. The Future of Sustainable Design

About the author:
David Bergman is a LEED-accredited, New York City-based architect specializing in sustainable design. He teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.

FROM: Greenblog network

IDEO Aligned for Sustainable Design

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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education is freely available for one week.

The issue of sustainability in a higher education context is, to some extent, a rather recent theme. Current journals are either focusing on sustainable development or on general higher education. There are no specific fully-refereed outlets to date, to disseminate the broad body of work and knowledge currently available on sustainability in a higher education context. 


International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (IJSHE) is therefore the first scholarly publication to specifically address the need for the dissemination of this information. 

Persons and organisations interested in sustainability in higher education, may access all issues published in the journal, free of charge, for the period 30^th January - 5^th February 2012, 
by following this link:


 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1467-6370, 


and using the following log-in details:

Username: Environ2012

Password: emerald 

Deep Design - Design for the next century

Deep Design - Design for the next century

Ecodesign from NUMA / USP - Brazil

The main research field is on Project Management and Product Development Process Management, which is one of the postgraduate areas at São Carlos Engineering School of the University of São Paulo (USP).

 In this area are developed researches and applications in enterprises projects that are structured in the following research subjects:

Integration Engineering

Web Knowledge Sharing

Sustainable Product Development

Basic Knowledge

Living Labs Global Award 2012

Companies, non-governmental organisations and research centres have invested in technologies that change our cities.

 The Living Labs Global Award 2012 will provide these innovators an opportunity to present solutions directly to a leading group cities, receive a professional and documented win a prestigious recognition for their efforts and an opportunity to enter a new market through a pilot.


 Only solutions that exist at least as prototypes, pilots, pre-commercial solutions or are fully for market deployment are accepted! 

  Living Labs Global Award 2012

Los dueños de la economia verde

Silvia Ribeiro *

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e podría pensar que lo más verde de las propuestas de economía verde, que gana terreno en diversos ámbitos oficiales, principalmente en las negociaciones hacia la conferencia internacional Río+20, es el color de los billetes que esperan ganar con ella las empresas trasnacionales que han causado las crisis económicas, alimentarias, ambientales y climáticas. Esta es una de las conclusiones que se derivan al comprobar que son las mismas compañías que controlan las tecnologías, las patentes, los productos y los mercados de la economía verde.

No se trata solamente de los oligopolios que conocíamos y que avizoran nuevos negocios. Además, se avanzan nuevas configuraciones corporativas que reúnen a las mayores empresas petroleras, químicas, farmacéuticas, forestales y de agronegocios con nuevas compañías de biología sintética y genómica para procesar cualquier tipo de biomasa, sea natural o cultivada, y convertirlo en combustibles, forrajes, plásticos u otras sustancias industriales, planteando un escenario donde cualquier cosa verde (o que esté o haya estado viva) podría ser apropiada corporativamente para sacarle ganancias con algún uso industrial. Más que una economía verde, la conjunción de oligopolios y nuevas tecnologías está llevando a un asalto corporativo sin precedente de la naturaleza, de lo vivo, de los sistemas de alimentación y de los territorios de las culturas campesinas e indígenas, que irónicamente se presenta como una nueva etapa del desarrollo sustentable.

AIGA - Design for Good

AIGA - Design for good

From the site:

"A movement to ignite, accelerate and amplify design-driven social change!

Around the world, designers are creating better communities by working with nonprofits and citizen groups to improve the human experience. AIGA’s Design for Good initiative encourages and recognizes pro bono and social engagement design projects.

By providing designers with the tools, resources and opportunities to become integral players in social change, Design for Good aims to channel designers and their creative talent toward addressing community needs."

                                                  VISIT: DESIGN FOR GOOD