Welcome to my blog on Green Communities.
This blog is being created to go hand in hand with an applied technology research topic I will be doing in my course "Engineering Design and Drafting Technology" at Thompson Rivers University.
My research topic is about changing our communities to a greener living design. I will be researching possible changes that could be done, technologies that could be used, the benefits of those changes, the cost and the pay-off cost (when these changes will pay themselves off) of those changes.
This will be a work in progress throughout the remaining semester and next year ahead. If anyone has any advice to offer, ideas to suggest, or feedback to give, please do so, it will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jordan Hilton
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A blog dedicated to the research of creating greener communities. The goal of one day having a net zero community...or as close as possible.
About Me
- Jordan Hilton
- Currently attending Thompson River University. In my 2nd year of Engineering Design and Drafting Technology (3 year diploma program).
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First Positive Energy Concept Building
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EDDT Classmate Blogs
Interesting Green Community Concept Designs
Academic Sources for my Research
- Canada Green Building Council
- Households and the Environment
- Office of Energy Efficiency
- Sustainable Built Environment
- Frank Kreith: Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Eugenie Ladner Birch: Growing Greener Cities : Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
- Daniel Edward Williams: Sustainable Design; Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
- Mark A. Benedict, Edward T. McMahon: Green Infrastructure; Linking Landscapes and Communities
- F. E Trainer: Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society
- Neil Schlager: Alternative Energy
- Ellen Rodger: Building a Green Community
- Volker Quaschning: Understanding Renewable Energy Systems
- Daniel D. Chiras: The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower
- Hugh Barton: Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods
Non-Academic Sources for my Research
- Zero-Carbon City
- Renewable Energy
- Low Carbon Community
- Zero Energy Home
- Bill Dunster: The ZED Book; solutions for a shrinking world
If you are interested in applying this to a new development, you can check out: http://liveincopperfields.com . David Wise and I can give you more information about this project. It would be interesting to see how close to net-zero we could get with this.
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ReplyDeleteI was looking through green communities and found this book that you might find useful. The title of the book is Green infrastructure : linking landscapes and communities / Mark A. Benedict, Edward T. McMahon.
Hey Pat, finally got around to getting that book and it had some good info in it, thanks alot man.
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