Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sustainability principles

 
1. Reduce dependence upon fossil fuels, underground metals, and minerals
2. Reduce dependence upon synthetic chemicals and other unnatural substances
3. Reduce encroachment upon nature
4. Meet human needs fairly & efficiently



Eco-villages and small towns to urban and rural life in a sustainable system exemplified, especially food products, which increase the production of a simple life in self-reliance to work on community building principles. The regulations, large-scale support for the concept of bio regional economy.



Consequently, the level of human development in the direction of sustainability, social choice and the local environmental impact largely depends on social movements. Eco-municipality may have a similar measure. More sustainable system is based on the principles of Eco-municipalities. Eco-municipality movement in the bottom-up approach, involving community participation. In Sweden more than 70 cities and towns in all municipalities, 25 percent of "sustainability principles" generally accepted within the country and their local activities to be done step by step.

Small, cheap and easily through the steps to reduce the environmental impact of their personal property for people who want to have one. However, in the form of sustainable use of reduction required to link the international community at all levels of human and environmental, is the most important changes. United Nations central role in special education and "new attitude and approach to ensure a future for us to accept the problem," The goal of sustainable development, 2005-2014, said about education. The World Wide Fund for Nature in great individualist and materialist values-on the social relations of people involved and strengthen the education that goes beyond the natural world and sustainable strategy is proposed.



Measuremesnts


That the resistance measurement, sustainability, and management of information as a basis for quantitative measurement indicates the use of the concept, social, environmental and economic sustainability of the sustainability of involvement (use of metrics for measuring and separately, and various combined) is still developing: they are indicators, standards, audits, and financial indicators, as well as the evaluation includes, The assessment and other reporting systems. Over a large spatial scale, and they should be applied temporarily.

The best-known and most widely used measures of some resistance to the corporate sustainability report, Environmental Sustainability Index and the Triple Bottom Line accounting and Environmental Performance Index, using separate countries for the quality of management estimates include the resistance.

Parameters used……
Ø  Population
Ø  Carrying capacity
Ø  Global human impact on biodiversity
Ø  Environmental dimension
ü  Atmosphere
ü  Fresh water and Oceans
ü  Land Use
Ø  Management on human consumption
Ø  Energy
Ø  Water
Ø  Food
Ø  Materials, toxic substances, waste
Ø  Economic Dimension
Ø  Social Dimension