Sustainability

 

You may ask about what does sustainability means … in this post I will give you an idea about it.
Sustainability is an attempt to provide the best outcomes for the human and natural environments both now and into the indefinite future.We know that in our time our industries become more complicated and more dangerous on the environment. Our industries effect on the environments in general, it didn’t leave any thing, air, seas, trees, even the human.

There are three definitions that have a relationship with the word Sustainability

The first is Tiny Home.

 

My definition about Tiny Homes, homes that are similar than the homes we see, we build this kind of homes by some ways that are acceptable with the environments, and it doesn’t effect on it. It’s cheap and it contain all what you need to live. 

This scudule because it show you the staffs that you need in your tiny home and what you don’t…

WHAT TO ADD TO
A TINY HOME

WHAT TO LEAVE OUT
OF A TINY HOME
Add creative, well planned rooms and home designs. Omit more heated space than you really need.
Use a well thought out floor plan that minimizes hallways, stairwells and other dead space that isn’t routinely or functionally used. Leave out large hallways, stairs, closets that occupy square footage space that you have to heat, clean and pay for.
Add universal design features that simplify life by making the home usable by more people at different stages of their lives, and do so with little or no extra cost. Leave out home features that make accessibility and usability difficult for some folks. This includes steep steps, hard to open doors, high shelves.
Add details and personal touches that bring a home alive with your personality and nurture your spirit. Leave out the molded plastic look that is artificial, boring and common.
Add landscaping that is easy to care for, attractive, energy enhancing, and doesn’t require you to mow so much in your spare time.
Add gardens for beauty and self-reliant food production.		 Leave out lots of lawn and high maintenance plants that demand your time for mowing, weeding, and trimming instead of golfing, time with the kids, reading, playing.
Be able to vacuum each level so your sweeper can reach every corner form the same electrical outlet. This is a genuine cleaning time saver. Leave out multiple levels and rooms that have hard to get into corners that are difficult to reach and require you to carry your vacuum cleaner to multiple outlets.
Bring the outdoors in with well placed and right sized windows that allow natural light and maximize views for a sense of geomancy and Nature’s beauty. Design connecting views from room to room to give a sense of spaciousness and airiness. Don’t use a floor plan that doesn’t consider a home’s views, natural day lighting, and solar gain or loss.
Add decks and porches to inexpensively expand unheated floor space and provide a transition from the yard or street into the home. Relaxing places to chat, sip tea, or host a party. Many conventional houses don’t offer porches or patios where it is comfortable to sit and visit with your neighbors and passers-by. This guarantees you will spend 100% of your time indoors and have little contact with the world outside your front door.
Create rooms that you can use for more than one purpose. In permaculture, multi-functionality is called “stacking”. Leave out rarely used spaces and formal areas that only function occasionally for holidays, parties or storage.
Add lots of built-in storage; book shelves, under bed drawers or space saver closets. Keep only those things that serve and please you, dispose of the rest. Design spaces that help minimize clutter. Do not have closet space without selves or space organizers. Omit rooms that give you very little feeling for home or cozy. Incorporate curves instead of having only square angles.
Use space that is thoughtfully designed in detail. Compact without being cramped. Leave out ostentatious square footage and sprawling space.
Include different ceiling heights to give variety and take away any boxy feeling. Leave out ceilings that are so high they have an impersonal feeling and literally leave you feeling cold because the warmer air rises to the ceiling away from your body.
Use fun colors both inside and out. Gray, off-white, vanilla, tend to be boring colors.
Go for quality over quantity in every detail, thing, and use. Leave out stuff you buy because the price is cheap, not because you need it. Omit redundancy.

http://oikos.com/library/tinyhome/index.html

The second is Earthship.

 

Earthships are buildings made of tires rammed with earth. This tires are rammed ful of earth by using a sledge hammer. The Earthship began in the 1970. Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. The Earth ship is made by taking advantage of many thing like thermal mass and passive solar heating and cooling.The load bearing walls with Earthship,made from steel belted tires rammed with earth, that will soak up heat during the day, keeping the interior climate comfortable all day.


In the summer


In the winter

what’s interesting for me that I have seen a house like this kind of houses before, then I remembered that the house I saw was Bill Gates’ house. I will show you some pictures for Bill Gates’ House but I’m not sure if his house built with the same way the Earthships built or not, any way I think this home contain some stuffs that Earthships built with.


This is a picture I took it from Google Earth program and it show you Bill Gates’ house. Click on it for full size

The third  is Prefabricated homes.

or you can call it Mobile homes or Manufactured homes. Prefab homes made by sections that can be shipped easily. the materials that they use with this kind of homes  are easy to installation with any structure like a house, home, storage, cabin or garage. And this kind of homes are cheap.

Most of the companies are selling complete pre manufactured prefab modular homes or houses. You can see Prefab homes becoming popular in Europe, Canada and United States. Finally the Prefab homes have not been particularly marketable for different reasons with different people. but for me I liked this kind, I’m planning to travel around the world with my new Prefabricated home … hehe.

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This is a YouTupe video which gave me a lot of information about Sustainability.

Here is onther one will give you a simple idea about Sustainability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvGb19vTiXE

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June 17, 2007 / 10:46 pm
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