Sustainability in Architecture

What is Teddy Roosevelt known for?

He bought thousands of acres of natural land that are not national parks, and he constantly fought for the preservation of nature for future generations

What are the rough riders

Lead by Teddy Roosevelt was 20,000 volunteers of various demographics of people all over the US, 1,000 of which were selected to fight Cuba

Who is Aldo Leopold

Founder of wildlife management in the United States, believed in nature conservation and that nothing in nature was useless

What is something Aldo Leopold believed

That modern people are disconnected from nature due to middlemen (aka the work between humans and recieving goods)

What is Ducks Unlimited

founded in 1997 to conserve duck populations so that people could continue hunting them throughout central and north america

What was the Dust Bowl

over-farming stripped the soil of all natural resources and nutrients, and droughts ended up blowing away layers of important topsoil— was later improved with conservation efforts

What is the importance of the industrial revolution

started mass producing steel, synthetic plastics, and advanced machines and weapons of war

what is agent orange

a chemical that removes all foliage from an area, meant to reveal attackers hiding

Bhopal Disaster

pesticide factory owned by US company Union Carbide in India accidentally released 93,000 pounds of isocyanate in a densely populated area, killing nearly 10,000

Chernobyl

in 1986 reactor core 4 exploded from a poorly designed test of a poorly designed reactor causes extension deaths and health issues from unimaginable amounts of radiation

Deepwater Horizon BP Oilspill

while drilling for oils in the gulf of mexico, the rig exploded and oil could be seen from outerspace all across the ocean and getting into marshes and on animals

What does DDT do to birds

destroys their natural navigation skills and making their eggshells too thin to survive

Rachel Carlson

wrote several books, one influential one being about oceans, later was editor-in-chief in the US publication of wildlife services

what is the love canal

a site where garbage and chemicals was dumped became a place where houses were built and those chemicals started leeching out of the soil. The government did not acknowledge the dangers or allow people to evacuate until several decades passed with several protests.

What woman was mainly involved in the love canal crisis

Lois Gibbs

PBB Disaster

In 1973 10-20 50 pound bags of fire retardant were mistakenly shipped to a farm and fed to various livestock, effecting nearly 90% of Michiganders.

PFCs in airforce bases

used to put out jet fuel fires in airforce bases has laced groundwater and laked with PFAs

Ronald Regan

right leaning, hated hippies

Colin Fletcher

Wrote a book inspiring Americans to go outdoors and hike

Buckminister Fuller

very intelligent designer and architect and engineer known for his futuristic inventions and desire for conservation and saving planet Earth

Richard Nixon

known for the Watergate scandal, hated and made fun of by many, did illegal things in the government. Strongly anti-communist. Passed the EPA and NEPA, as well as giving the government more control over pollution.

Current events around JFK’s presidency

-National Guard shot and killed four students when they protested the Vietnam War

-moon landing in 1969

OPEC oil embargo

in 1973 there was a reduction of oil exports from Arab nations, leading to a gas and oil shortage making people realize how finite earth’s resources are

Gro Brundtland

prime minister of Norway who started the brundtland commision which redefined environmentalism with specific ideas for sustainability

Triple Bottom Line

profit, people, and planet

What is an externality

the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit

Al Gore

spoke about climate change all over the place to increase to inform people about the harmful effects but also the multitude of solutions we have available. Was in politics.

Architecture in sustainability

-Buildings account for around 40% of all energy and CO₂ emissions in the world

-Global building floor is expected to double by 2060

-2/3s of the current buildings will be reused and need renovations in the future

Easter Island

people used up all of the natural resources and nearly died out

Number of births per woman to maintain a stable population

2.1

Ozone

a pollutant at ground level, created by lightning and car exaust. Above the atmosphere and troposphere it protects earth from deadly radiation (UV-C)

john Shanklin

discovered the ozone hole

What is LEED

green building system rated by points managed by the USBGC