This My Nature Outing project inquires into questions surrounding sustainable design and examines local efforts at the University of Pittburgh. My Nature Outing is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh's John C. Mascaro Center for Sustainable Engineering and the Office of the Provost's Year of Data and Society.
What is sustainable design? What does it do? How does it work? Why is it important? How can we increase interest in sustainable design?
Bicycles are a healthy form of transportation that's good for the environment, and for you.
Rain Gardens collect water and reduce flooding.
Bee's population has been declining so people are making beehives.
Thriftsburgh is like a normal thrift store, it takes student donations and resells them at low prices so that other students can get new clothes for a small amount of money, and the clothes that can't be resold are sent to be recycled, so nothing is waisted. It's important because nothing is waisted and because students can get clothes for less than half the price.
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Hana interviewed me and we talked about sustainable designs
Bicycles are a healthy form of transportation that's good for the environment, and for you. Instead of using a car which produces carbon dioxide and heats up our planet, a bike won't harm our planet and is an easy way to get some excersize. If more bike lanes are made and everyone is given easy access to trails,the world could be much healthier.
Rain Gardens collect water and reduce flooding, by storing the water and until the plants can completely absorb the water. It's important because it helps stop the flooding that could damage buildings or hurt people. Building more rain gardens would be helpful to stop flooding or harm.
Bee's population has been declining so people are making beehives. The beehives give the bee's a home because many beehives have been destroyed and the environment where they could create beehives are disappearing. It's important to help bees because they pollinate most plants on earth, which we need to survive. To help bees everyone should make more beehives and make our planet more welcoming to them.