{"id":4592,"date":"2010-06-04T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2010-06-04T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:28:17","slug":"so-just-what-is-sustainability-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/so-just-what-is-sustainability-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So just what is sustainability?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it possible to sign a\u00a0declaration<\/a> to say your home is Sustainable and yet not truly have a\u00a0sustainable property<\/a>?\u00a0 Signing a declaration on the transfer of property is the approach that has been adopted in the residential sector in Queensland. The success of this approach depends on your definition of sustainability, and whether a number of\u00a0 ‘sustainability features’ are sufficient to warrant the label sustainable.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0community debate<\/a> about the benefits of the legislative reforms has started.\u00a0 Some in the real estate industry have seized the initiative and have viewed ‘energy’ sustainability as a\u00a0branding opportunity<\/a>. This trend follow\u00a0similar initiatives in the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, what is being addressed here is ‘the below the line emissions’\u00a0 on\u00a0the McKinsey cost curve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is being missed?<\/p>\n

Before airconditioning and heating, is passive solar design of the building envelope, before passive solar design of the envelope is the design of the garden, before the design of the garden is the orientation and siting building, before the orientation and siting of the building is the layout of the plan, before the layout of the plan is the analysis of the site, before the analysis of the site is the selection of the site, before the selection of the site is the design of the subdivision….<\/p>\n

Sustainability as is demonstrated by\u00a0Orchid House<\/a> can be costly<\/a>, so where does\u00a0sustainability<\/a> begin and end?<\/p>\n

Image courtesy http:\/\/www.lmearchitecture.com\/featherstone-house-images.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to sign a\u00a0declaration to say your home is Sustainable and yet not truly have a\u00a0sustainable property?\u00a0 Signing a declaration on the transfer of property is the approach that has been adopted in the residential sector in Queensland. The success of this approach depends on your definition of sustainability, and whether a number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}