While going thru material for the subject of sustainability I chanced upton the article Building the Green way (click here) by Charles Lockwood and published in Harvard Business Review of June 2006.
The author has given ten interesting points to discuss on the plan to construct green buildings.
1. Focus on the big picture
2. Choose sustainable site
3. Do the math
4. Make the site plan work for you
5. Landscape for savings
6. Design for greater green
7. Take advantage of technology
8. Save and manage water
9. Use alternate materials
10. Construct green
Al the points are self explanatory. But the most important and interesting point for me is how technology can be leveraged for making buildings green.
In the ten points one notable omission is that of energy. Generating our own energy by either using solar or wind is a good idea to take care of the energy needs inside green buildings. If we are going for solar energy, we need to have batteries that can store this energy for night use or an arrangement to give power to the grid during daytime and receive from the grid during night time.
Managing local rainwater harvesting zones is all the more important these days as it is widely believed that the third world war will be fought over water. The threat of hydro-political interaction can happen at five places around the world, the Nile, Ganges-Bhramaputra, Indus, Euphrates-Tigris and the Colorado rivers (click here for WEF doc). If we take care of the water resources now itself, I am sure that conflict can be avoided.
George..
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