Tag: emissions
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11.3 Diet: Vegetarian/Vegan
Author: Alaa Abd-El-Aatty ABSTRACT: Food’s carbon footprint is the production of greenhouses gas from growing, harvesting, manufacturing, transporting, storing, cooking as well as disposing of food. Avoiding meat and dairy products (becoming vegetarian or vegan) is one of the biggest ways to reduce environmental impact and help fight climate change. MAIN Our diet-related environmental burdens…
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4.4 Carbon: What are emission scopes?
Author: Dannan Yan ABSTRACT: A city’s ability to mitigate climate change and take action depends on whether the city has accurate data on greenhouse gas emissions. The first thing to determine in urban greenhouse gas accounting is the urban greenhouse gas accounting boundary, which is divided into direct emissions, indirect emissions and “scope.” Direct emissions…
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4.3 Carbon: Carbon Life Cycle
Author: Renée Trecroce ABSTRACT: Carbon lifecycle is a “cradle to grave” approach to assessing the carbon footprint of a product or resource. Emissions produced during production, manufacturing, operation and disposal phases contribute to a complete carbon audit. The application of carbon lifecycle assessment to international agreements can address issues of accountability in the global marketplace.…
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4.1 Carbon: Embodied Carbon
Author: Patricia Alves ABSTRACT: Embodied Carbon refers to all CO2 emissions associated with material and construction processes throughout the whole lifecycle of a building or infrastructure. MAIN: “Buildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions: 28% from operational emissions, from the energy needed to heat, cool, and power them, and the remaining…
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15.7 Urban Design: Transit Oriented Development
Author: Olivia Miller ABSTRACT: One of the most significant steps to reducing a city’s carbon footprint is to minimize the number of cars on the road. This has proven effective in cities like New York where there is an increasingly large population, yet the city’s carbon emissions are nowhere near proportional to its population. This…
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15.6 Urban Density: Missing Middle / Goldilocks Density
Author: Erika Cunanan ABSTRACT: The missing middle is an arrangement of diverse homes selections that provide solutions to a dense population and unaffordable housing. MAIN: Between the common detached house and a mid-to-high rise apartment building, there is a selection of different scaled homes. These are called missing middle housing which range from duplexes, triplexes,…
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15.4 Urban Design: The 15-Minute City
Author: Daniella Muraca ABSTRACT: The 15-Minute City is an urban design concept where residents have access to all the services they need to live, learn and thrive within their immediate vicinity. MAIN The “15-minute city” is an approach to urban design that aims to improve quality of life by creating cities where everything a resident…
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15.3 Urban Design: Walkability (1)
Author: Meimei Yang ABSTRACT: Walkability is the quantitative and qualitative measure of how friendly an area is to walking, including a multitude of factors ranging from climate change, economy, health, equity and community. MAIN: By way of the word “Walkability” it should be inherently understood as referring to a measurement of how friendly an area…
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15.2 Urban Design: Transportation
Author: Reem Wehbe ABSTRACT: Transportation is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions all over the world. Increasing the efficiency of vehicle technology, changing what methods we use to travel and transport goods, and using lower-carbon fuels are all different methods we could be implementing to reduce our carbon footprint. MAIN: As the saying…
The Carbon Crisis 