SUSD0001_Digital Sustainability Journal

Stacking Green  Urbanization leads to excessive population growth and also leads to a decline in quality of life and loss of greening. “Stacking Green” is a private residential project built in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2011, which opens up the possibility of changing this situation. The citizens of Ho Chi Minh City love the streets and are full of tropical plants and flowers, so in this project, the designers operate horizontally arranged to plant troughs to form the facade of the building. The green building facade not only provides residents with a comfortable visual experience, the natural wind is introduced into the building as much as possible to improve the indoor thermal environment, and also enhances the biodiversity of the surrounding environment. The green façade and roof garden protect the occupants from direct sunlight, street noise, and pollution. In tropical climates, the natural ventilation of the building is particularly important. Good natural...

Russia recognized the importance of eco-environmental protection in Lake Baikal as early as the Soviet Union, and adopted a series of measures to restrict the pollution of polluted Baikal. However, due to improper treatment methods and lack of funds, the environmental protection, and restoration of Baikal Lake did not Achieve the desired results. After the establishment of the Russian Federation, the federal government has formulated a comprehensive comprehensive plan for the rational use of natural resources in Baikal from the aspects of law, system and policy, science and technology monitoring and restoration technology. Some of the main protection methods include: - Legal mechanism Resolution 52: Define the scope of protected waters and strictly control the use of natural resources. Resolution 679: By 1985, it stopped the discharge of sewage into Lake Baikal and into the river to control air pollution. Federal Law No. 94: This law clarifies the restrictions...

Lions Solhuset Kindergarten is located in Horsholm Kommune, north of Copenhagen. The sunshine and fresh air allow children to enjoy a happy life in a healthy environment. It is designed and built according to the principles of Active House. The principles of Active House can be defined. In order to create a comfortable living space for the user without damaging the environment. The design team analyzed the building's natural lighting, energy, and indoor climate while determining the shape and orientation of the building based on where the sun moved, ensuring maximum use of daylight and solar energy. In order to achieve a seamless transition between the various functional areas and indoors and outdoors, the site selection and construction of the building are as natural as possible. As can be seen from the images, the entire kindergarten's functional area includes large and small event areas, public event rooms and restaurants, and the outdoor area is furnish...

For the first time in the “Our Common Future” report, the World Commission on Environment and Development elaborated on the concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Education for sustainable development is based on natural sciences and social sciences in the fields of economy, environment, and social development, and it is organized around a series of related issues such as democracy, gender equality, and human rights. As a representative of quality education in Northern Europe, Finland is actively working in the field of sustainable development education. The government drives schools, enterprises and non-governmental organizations to form a good cooperation network for sustainable development education. Educational Philosophy - The Finnish scholars have developed a set of conceptual models - tree models for the country's sustainable development education. The trunk of the model symbolizes that the impact of the concept of sustainable development educati...

Somalia, located in the horn of Africa, is one of the world's least developed countries. Frequent political crises and continuous civil wars, complicated geopolitical environment, and intervention of other countries, as well as serious natural disasters, have resulted in several large-scale refugee flow in Somalia. Moreover, in recent years, most host countries have tightened their refugee policies, which makes it more difficult to govern the refugee problem in Somalia. Multi-participation The UNHCR is the main international agency for Somali refugees governance, and its assistance programs fall into two main categories: Care and Maintenance Programs and Enduring Resolution Plans. The Care and Maintenance Program is designed to address refugee settlement and survival issues and the Enduring Solutions focus on fundamentally addressing refugee issues, including helping refugees achieve voluntary repatriation, local integration or third-country placement. For countries rec...

The California science museum is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano. As a LEED platinum certified a green building, the building highlights the integration of various elements such as function, form, and environment, forming an organic and overall all-around green design concept. It breaks the previous way of relying only on technical support and brings the thinking mode of green building into the whole process of project implementation. The project fully integrates architectural art, technology and the surrounding environment of the building to make the overall building as a second natural environment. Site Selection – The California Science Museum is located in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Golden Gate Park has a good ecological environment, surrounded by many green areas, mountains, and parks. There is a fast elevated road, two urban trunk roads, several bicycle lanes and walking trails in the area. By the end of the week, all motorway lanes have been converted...

Santiago Island is located in the southeastern part of the North Atlantic. The region's ecological environment is fragile and volcanic activity is frequent. Sustained earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and steep terrain have caused island land use restrictions, environmental pollution, and extremely fragile ecosystems. As land resources become increasingly scarce, the maintenance and improvement of island ecosystems is becoming increasingly important for the ecological security of the island. Therefore, according to the intrinsic value and constraints of the island, Santiago island has established the island planning and ecological governance system and defined the importance, role and participation forms of all stakeholders. The purpose is to strengthen the concept and practice of citizen protection and enhance the ecological management ability of different identity islanders. citizens, politicians, investors or developers are fully and consciously involved in management and are ab...

In recent decades, as population and housing demand have grown, Stockholm is experiencing a new round of urban renewal. The newly planned urban construction areas mainly include abandoned freight train stations and ports for industrial and logistics. The Royal Harbour City renewal project focuses on environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and social sustainability, and proposes sustainable development strategies for urban functions, transportation networks, and resource utilization. Three specific indicators of the Royal Harbour City:   (1) Carbon dioxide emissions before 2020 will be less than 1.5t/person (average indicator is 4.5t/person) (2) The maximum energy efficiency of newly built residential buildings is not higher than 55kW•h/m2 (3) Replace fossil energy with renewable energy by 2030 (Stockholm plans to achieve this goal by 2050) The four design strategies include urban function, sustainable transportation, resource and ener...

Bangladesh is extremely densely populated and one of the least developed countries in the world. At the same time, the country has been identified by the United Nations as one of the countries most affected by climate change. Due to the geographical location and the backwardness of domestic economic strength, millions of Bangladeshis living in low-lying areas have been forced to endure extreme weather such as river flooding, rising sea levels, and devastating tropical storms. As rivers engulf towns and seawater invades coastal communities, more than one-fifth of Bangladeshis are flooded every year. UN experts warned that by the end of the century, about 20 million Bangladeshis will be able to become "climate refugees" Frequent floods often isolate this remote village from the nearest school, which prevents students from going to school for education. So, the most common means of transportation on the street is simple wooden boats. In order to change this situation...

Bird Street has become the world's first "smart street" in 2017. In order to transform the street into a “smart street”, a retail trade representative of Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Streets (New West End Co), partnered with a short-term rental booking platform (Appear Hear), to provide shopping for travel through smart technology. The goal is to offer shopping travelers with an innovative shopping experience that will fully exploit Bird Street's strong retail potential. Bird Street is a short walk from the Selfridges department store and Bond Street subway station and has long been considered a strong retail potential. At present, Bird Street has added a lot of technological elements. For example, the sidewalk of the street can use to generate electricity by people walking, which provide energy for streets and shops and collect relevant data for research. The street is 10 meters long and the new pavement system Pavegan panel converts ele...

Concrete is the most widely used man-made material on the planet and has always been used as the basis for the built environment. However, as architects and the public are paying more and more attention to the causes and effects of climate change, people are increasingly eager to find more high-performance materials to improve or replace cement because the damage caused by cement is not negligible. Plant composite concrete made from vegetables such as sugar beets or carrots has superior structural and environmental properties over all currently available commercial cement additives, such as expensive graphene and carbon nanotubes. The potential of plant composite concrete lies in the ability of nanoplatelets to increase the content of hydrated calcium silicate in concrete mixtures, and hydrated calcium silicate is the main substance controlling structural properties. This chain effect means that the amount of cement required for construction will be reduced. In additio...

For countries with a dry climate, water scarcity is always an intractable problem. The Iranian company BMDesign Studios has designed a double-roof system called Concave Roof, which can be used to collect rainwater in a bowl-shaped container on a building roof in a hot and dry climate. For a dry environment, precipitation is one-third of the world's average, and the rate of water evaporation is three times the global average. The design system solves the problem of water shortage, which not only provides natural cooling in the house but also compensates for the shortcomings of building water consumption. The Concave Roof consists of two roofs and there has another dome-shaped convex roof below the roof of the bowl-shaped catchment. Any small amount of precipitation can be collected through this design and combined into larger droplets. Water droplets are collected before the water evaporates, and this combination of a concave roof and a convex roof also provides a natu...