The Sustainability Corner interviews typically touch on one or more of the five key sustainability themes: Energy & Climate Change; Water & Waste Water; Resources & Materials; Land Use &Transportation; Health & Well-being.
From this starting point, the solutions and actions proposed by the speakers explore a wide range of economical, technical, social and political fields.
Often participants discuss examples of broad initiatives that are moving regions, governments or industries toward sustainability. Several examples may be found in the Initiatives section.
Energy and Climate Change Technical Solutions involve products, services and technologies that have the common goals of reducing energy consumption, fossil fuel demand, air pollution, and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions.
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Water and Waste-Water Technical Solutions involve products, services, and technologies with the common goals of reducing water consumption, fresh water demand and waste-water discharge.
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Land use and transportation solutions include products, services and technologies with the common goals of reducing reduce impact on land and local ecologies from urban development and human activities.
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Resources and material technical solutions include products, services and technologies with the common goals of reducing material consumption and transportation, demand on non-renewable or virgin material, solid waste, and material environmental impacts.
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Health and well-being solutions involve products, services, technologies and approaches that prevent or eliminate toxic, unhealthy or uncomfortable living environments.
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Many solutions cover more than one theme.
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