CONCEPTS
ENERGY STRUCTURES
TRANSPORTATION STRUCTURES
FOOD, HELATH & HOUSING STRUCTURES
SOCIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES
100
This is a type of business where people buy, eat and/or consume stuff that is produced or grown locally and the profits stay in the local community.
What is a Local Business?
100
This is an energy system that is a zero waste system.
What is Solar Energy?
100
This is a transportation system that provides one source or vehicle to transport many people.
What is Mass Transportation?
100
This is a type of agriculture where many different plants that produce food are grown together and there is no need for pest control.
What is Polyculture (or a food forest)?
100
This is a type of organization that makes sure that workers who provide imported goods (like sugar, chocolate, gold, cotton, coffee, etc.) are treated fairly and get paid a fair amount of money for their hard work.
What is a Fair Trade Organization?
200
This is when a human technology "copies" nature.
What is Biomimicry?
200
This is the technology used to generate solar power
What is photovoltaics?
200
This is a non-renewable fuel that basically comes from fossils buried deep beneath the earth's surface.
What is Oil?
200
This is an example of a type of a passively designed structure.
What is a dome house, skylight, rain catchment or overhangs?
200
This is a place where people come together.
What is a Town Center of Square of Social Gathering Space?
300
This term (simple definition) means "how people use resources."
What is Economics?
300
This means a system guided by the 3 principles: care of earth, care of people and fairness.
What is Sustainabiliy?
300
A type of "cost efficient" fuel that produces high output and low input is called a ________ fuel.
What is Renewable fuel?
300
This is when a waste stream of one system is used to generate another system
What is a closed loop system?
300
This is an example of a system where instead of using money to exchange for services, people exchange their time.
What is a Time Bank?
400
The amount of land, water and other resources that an individual, group or country uses.
What is an ecological footprint?
400
A Cost Efficient system is a system of production that uses high _______ and low ______.
What is high output and low input.
400
This is a system where a new technology can be fitted into an older model or technology to make it more efficient.
What is Retrofitting?
400
This is an example of Animal Stewardship.
What is a nature preserve or a land bridge or sustainable agriculture or an animal rescue or wellness center?
400
This is the technology that safely burns organic materials only (no chemcial dyes or plastics) to produce electrical power.
What is Bio-Mass Energy?
500
This word means "mind-set' or way of thinking.
What is a Paradigm?
500
This is a renewable energy system that burns organic watse material to create power.
What is a Biomass power plant?
500
This is one reason why cars are considered unsustainable.
What is: pollution non-renewable fuel use expensive crashes that cause death road kill, etc ?
500
This is way of growing food uses a small ecological footprint, where a lot of food can be grown on a small piece of land.
What is a vertical garden?
500
These is a type of agreement between people where everyone agrees.
What is Consensus?
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