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.
Sustainable design is work/designs that help the world. It basically makes the world a better place by making helpful designs. It's important to help keep the world stable. We can increase interest by spreading the word and making more designs worldwide.
Pollination Gardens help out our pollinators by giving them easy spaces to pollinate.
A bike coop to help give out bikes to students for low prices.
Gardens that collect rain and stop water pollution by filtering it, then giving it to people in need for good, clean filtered water.
Ramps are my favorite sustainable design project because they are so easy to make and are so useful. It makes it easier for handicapped people to move up and people with baby strollers as well. We should expand it because there are a lot of handicapped people and a lot of babies and they probably want an easier way to move up and down, and we can just simply make more of them to expand them.
Here I interviewed Luca who is going into 8th grade at Falk Middle School. We discussed different topics about sustainable design. It was important because I could get different perspectives on the designs.
How it works is that a bunch of volunteers plant trees, flowers, etc. and make it safe for pollinators like adding no smoking zones. It is important because 75-90% of greens come from pollinators and without them we basically wouldnt have most vegetables or flowers or fruits. There are many gardens in the world and it would be easy to turn those into pollinator gardens which are better for the economy all around.
The bike cave collects broken down bikes/bike parts and fixes them into real bikes, then sells them for cheap. It is important for students/people who cant afford a fancy bike or a car but need to go a long distance, then they can buy a cheaper bike here. We can expand it by having more people donate more and by making more locations, also getting more volunteers.
Rain Gardens collect rain water, then drain them into a underground system to filter it out and make it clean. It is important for people in need who need clean water. We should expand it by building more and we need to because there are a alot of people in need now.