How can you define Sustainable Design ?

Question

I have come across so many people running around talkin abt it , but does anyone really implement it . If yes could you share it with people , so we can make a difference, by trying to implement in our life

Answer 1

Sustainable design (also referred to as "green design", "eco-design", or "design for environment") is the art of designing physical objects and the built environment to comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability. It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm of designing buildings, cities, and the earth's physical surface. It is a growing trend within the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, engineering, graphic design, industrial design, interior design and fashion design.

Answer 2

It comes down to, if they don't like the design aesthetically, they call it "unsustainable."

Technically, if you define "unsustainable" to mean you couldn't house the world's population forever using a given design or materials, then something could be "unsustainable" - but, by that definition, everything would be.    When you build one house, car, factory, consumer product, you're not making a statement that you could build / make every house, car, factory, consumer product the same way out of the same materials.    In the market, it's just the most efficient use of resources at that time and in that place.

The market is the best mechanism to allow the consumers to make those resource allocation decisions.    I'm sure similarly-minded people insisted in the 1800s that whale blubber, firewood and horse-and-buggies were "unsustainable."    And the market came up with alternatives.    And the market will come up with alternatives to oil and gas.

I mean don't get me wrong, I've read Dwell and I like their designs.    And that probably is what we'll go towards.

But this is America and I don't have the right to force that on someone else.    Nor am I self-deceiving enough to convince myself that doing so would be me "saving the planet" rather than me imposing my aesthetic taste on someone else, e.g., by referring to my aesthetic taste as "principles of sustainable design."