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 The Environmental Footprint of Development Concerned about your footprint? What is the best way to cut the footprint in a cost effective, profitable, manner? The most effective and cost efficient method of reducing the environmental footprint is not using resources. Minimising the size and width of roads, for example, avoids environmental and economic costs. Cut the environmental footprint, at a profit or at least cost, by actions taken in the following order:
The total package is a compelling green deal!  Animated footprint presentations See footprints in action on a city scale and for a whole company.  Queensland EPA and Lend Lease Can you fit three houses into one without compromising amenity? If you can then the environmental impact of a home would be cut, significantly!  Recent work by Lend Lease (through Delfin Lend Lease) with the Queensland EPA and GreenMode shows how it can be done. The results, appearing in the Queensland Government's Smart and Sustainable Homes newsletter, are for 35 different homes of the types typically constructed in South East Queensland. By implementing simple measures - such as insulation, orientation, high efficiency cooling and heating, and window shading - the Ecological Footprint of a home with people living in it is cut by a factor of five. When construction and the physical maintenance of the house are also included, three of these sustainable homes could fit in the footprint of one 'standard' house (of the type commonly constructed in Queensland). |
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