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Plus que réutilisation, récupération ou recyclage, le réemploi, acte par lequel on donne un nouvel usage à un objet qui a perdu l'emploi pour lequel il avait été conçu et fabriqué, permet de développer une nouvelle éthique de la matière et de nouvelles relations entre les hommes et la planète.
La poubelle et l'architecte : vers le réemploi des matériaux
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Plus que réutilisation, récupération ou recyclage, le réemploi, acte par lequel on donne un nouvel usage à un objet qui a perdu l'emploi pour lequel il avait été conçu et fabriqué, permet de développer une nouvelle éthique de la matière et de nouvelles relations entre les hommes et la planète.
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Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a difference lie all around us. This team of top-notch writers, brought together by Worldchanging.com founder Alex(...)
World changing: a user`s guide for the 21st century
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Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a difference lie all around us. This team of top-notch writers, brought together by Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen, includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcore founder Ethan Zuckerman, and sustainable food expert Anne Lappé, among many others. Each chapter offers practical answers to important questions, such as: Why does buying locally produced food make sense? What steps can we take to influence our workplace toward sustainability? How can we travel, live, work, and learn in world-changing ways? How, in short, can we participate in building a better future locally and globally? Worldchanging proves that a life that is sustainably prosperous, thoughtful and democratic, dynamic and peaceful, is not just possible, it’s here.
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The rammed earth house
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The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materials, earth, forward-thinking homebuilders can now create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and efficient use of natural(...)
The rammed earth house
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The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materials, earth, forward-thinking homebuilders can now create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and efficient use of natural resources. Rammed earth construction is a step forward into a sustainable future, when homes will combine pleasing aesthetics and intense practicality with a powerful sense of place. Rammed earth homes are built entirely on-site, using basic elements—earth, water, and a little cement. The solid masonry walls permit design flexibility while providing year-round comfort and minimal use of energy. The builder and resident of a rammed earth house will experience the deep satisfaction of creating permanence in a world dominated by the disposable.
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Rénovation écologique
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La rénovation écologique c'est non seulement réaliser des travaux pour économiser l'énergie, mais aussi utiliser des matériaux sains pour améliorer son cadre de vie. Vous trouverez dans ce livre les solutions pratiques pour rénover une maison ou un appartement, en utilisant des techniques et des matériaux respectueux de l'environnement, mais pas au détriment du confort.(...)
Rénovation écologique
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La rénovation écologique c'est non seulement réaliser des travaux pour économiser l'énergie, mais aussi utiliser des matériaux sains pour améliorer son cadre de vie. Vous trouverez dans ce livre les solutions pratiques pour rénover une maison ou un appartement, en utilisant des techniques et des matériaux respectueux de l'environnement, mais pas au détriment du confort. Entre autres: établir un état des lieux, tirer parti de son orientation, isolation thermique, isolation phonique, changer les fenêtres, refaire le chauffage, créer une ventilation. Les avantages, mais aussi les inconvénients, de chacune des solutions sont présentés, ainsi que les éléments indispensables à prendre en compte, les aides financières possibles et un carnet d'adresses utiles.
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Air conditioning contributes significantly to the energy consumption of buildings in many countries. A promising possibility for energy reduction is the use of solar thermal energy in solar-assisted air conditioning systems. The main advantage of this technology is that cooling loads and solar gains occur at the same time, at least on a seasonal level. However, until(...)
Solar-Assisted Air Conditioning in Buildings a handbook for planners
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Air conditioning contributes significantly to the energy consumption of buildings in many countries. A promising possibility for energy reduction is the use of solar thermal energy in solar-assisted air conditioning systems. The main advantage of this technology is that cooling loads and solar gains occur at the same time, at least on a seasonal level. However, until today only a few systems have been installed world-wide and design and operation experiences are fairly poor. The goal of this handbook - meanwhile available in the 2nd edition - is to address this lack and to support the planner in the design of solar assisted air-conditioning systems, which use solar collectors as heat source.
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Organic Architecture: The Other Modernism illuminates the broad brush stroke of Organic residential architecture throughout the panorama of twentieth-century Modernism. A wide-ranging style that defies definition, Organic buildings are notable in their curves and colors, as well as their exuberant, opulent, and at times,extravagant complexity of line, form, texture,(...)
Organic architecture: the other modernism
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Organic Architecture: The Other Modernism illuminates the broad brush stroke of Organic residential architecture throughout the panorama of twentieth-century Modernism. A wide-ranging style that defies definition, Organic buildings are notable in their curves and colors, as well as their exuberant, opulent, and at times,extravagant complexity of line, form, texture, structure, and color.
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Habiter en milieu naturel
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Dans Habiter en milieu naturel, Claude Phaneuf nous livre presque deux décennies d'expériences de vie à la campagne au cours desquelles il a concrétisé l'achat et la réfection d'un chalet,la copropriété de chalets sur des terrains sous bail de villégiature et finalement la construction d'une résidence permanente en milieu naturel. Il nous rapporte des éléments de ses(...)
Habiter en milieu naturel
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Dans Habiter en milieu naturel, Claude Phaneuf nous livre presque deux décennies d'expériences de vie à la campagne au cours desquelles il a concrétisé l'achat et la réfection d'un chalet,la copropriété de chalets sur des terrains sous bail de villégiature et finalement la construction d'une résidence permanente en milieu naturel. Il nous rapporte des éléments de ses trois projets sur les rives de différents lacs où il a rencontré diverses embûches pour lesquelles il a cherché et appliqué des solutions judicieuses.
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Thinking in systems
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Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to(...)
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December 2008, White River Junction, Vermont
Thinking in systems
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Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
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Hijacking sustainability
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Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate image-greening by such companies as British Petroleum (BP) and Wal-Mart; Hollywood activism by Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie industry figures; the autonomy of communal ecovillages vs. the military-like security of gated communities; the greening of the White House (and its de-greening:(...)
Hijacking sustainability
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Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate image-greening by such companies as British Petroleum (BP) and Wal-Mart; Hollywood activism by Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie industry figures; the autonomy of communal ecovillages vs. the military-like security of gated communities; the greening of the White House (and its de-greening: Ronald Reagan famously removed solar panels installed by Jimmy Carter); and the incongruous efforts to achieve a "sustainable" army. Parr then examines key challenges to sustainability— waste disposal, disaster relief and environmental refugees, slum development, and poverty.
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L'Association des Maires de France, Archinov, l'Union sociale pour l'habitat et l'Union Nationale des Syndicats Français d'Architectes ont décidé d'unir leurs forces pour élaborer cet ouvrage collectif pédagogique. Nous avons choisi de montrer quelques réalisations exemplaires qui s'inscrivent dans des contextes variés, village, habitat pavillonnaire, faubourg ou(...)
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January 2009, Paris
Ambiances, densités urbaines et développement durable
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L'Association des Maires de France, Archinov, l'Union sociale pour l'habitat et l'Union Nationale des Syndicats Français d'Architectes ont décidé d'unir leurs forces pour élaborer cet ouvrage collectif pédagogique. Nous avons choisi de montrer quelques réalisations exemplaires qui s'inscrivent dans des contextes variés, village, habitat pavillonnaire, faubourg ou centre-ville. Certaines revisitent avec bonheur les expérimentations d'habitat intermédiaire des années 1970, d'autres s'inspirent du bourg ancien, d'autres encore redonnent une nouvelle vie à un patrimoine délaissé. Toutes placent l'habitant au cœur d'une démarche citoyenne et l'envisagent dans toutes ses dimensions (résident, piéton, promeneur, cycliste, automobiliste). Toutes apportent un soin particulier au traitement des lieux publics, à la place de la voiture, aux espaces de transition entre le public et le privé, aux prolongements immédiats du logement. Toutes favorisent les échanges et la convivialité par des cheminements et des lieux de rencontre. Nous avons souhaité faire de cet ouvrage, un outil pratique favorisant le dialogue entre tous les acteurs du cadre de vie afin de répondre autant aux désirs des habitants qu'aux préoccupations environnementales.
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