Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities - for iPad/Mac/PC: Recent Episodes
The Open University
Can you picture the future in a world without fossil fuels? Perhaps you think that living an "alternative" lifestyle has to mean painful and radical changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and technological experiment. In our world of finite resources and massive over-consumption, “breathing” walls, earth-shelters, composting toilets, "living machines" to deal with wastewater – are just some of the technologies which we may all have to get used to. These eco-communities are all breaking new ground by demonstrating how implementation of innovative solutions can create changes in social behaviour, so that people live in harmony with the Earth’s living systems, rather than against them. You might also wish to explore the other T307 albums "Energy and Sustainability" and "Design and Sustainability". This material forms part of The Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future.
A community designed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ecologically sound.
Transcript -- A community designed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ecologically sound.
The architect of Beddington zero fossil energy development talks about the advantages of living in an eco-village.
Transcript -- The architect of Beddington zero fossil energy development talks about the advantages of living in an eco-village.
The impacts that eco-villages and eco-communities can have on society and environmental awareness.
Transcript -- The impacts that eco-villages and eco-communities can have on society and environmental awareness.
Highlights the technologies in place at Bedzed and the shortcomings of the development.
Transcript -- Highlights the technologies in place at Bedzed and the shortcomings of the development.
How a school has encouraged students to take action against the waste that is produced in the school.
Transcript -- How a school has encouraged students to take action against the waste that is produced in the school.
A talk through the three stages in changing behaviour and how schools provide the best value as a driver of change.
Transcript -- A talk through the three stages in changing behaviour and how schools provide the best value as a driver of change.
A demonstration project of how renewable technologies can be used to provide energy to power an island in Denmark.
Transcript -- A demonstration project of how renewable technologies can be used to provide energy to power an island in Denmark.
How people living on small islands are able to influence policy and how this is done on Samsoe Island.
Transcript -- How people living on small islands are able to influence policy and how this is done on Samsoe Island.
How changes that need to be made have to be done on a larger scale in order to have any real effect.
Transcript -- How changes that need to be made have to be done on a larger scale in order to have any real effect.
How making samsoe sustainable has been a community project and dependent on decentralised development.
Transcript -- How making samsoe sustainable has been a community project and dependent on decentralised development.
Transcript -- How Samsoe chose to reject nuclear power in favour of renewable resources.