A Site for Students, Educators and Others
Tools towards being more sustainable is available to the society. A lot of information can be found online on how to make your everyday actions more sustainable, how to reduce your environmental impact, how to choose the right products etc. A good example of this is The Autodesk Sustainability Workshop. The website is created to make “learning about sustainability in design and engineering easy, accessible and free to educators and students.”, by providing “online resources that teach the principles and practice of sustainability in engineering and design.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDlWefoiy0
The website offers free videos and tutorials about how to incorporate sustainability practices into product and building design processes. Although the content is targeting post secondary architecture, engineering and design students, the content is available to anyone for free. The website also provides valuable information to educators on how they can implement sustainability in the existing curriculum. With the help of these tutorials and introducing sustainability in schools, the new generation with bright minds can start thinking about how to build a product in a more sustainable manner.
The most important aspect of the website is that the videos are very short, engaging, and easy to understand. The videos are followed up by more information that elaborates on the specific topic and links are provided to more resources to aid the research of the audience. You can check the link below and see the structure of one of the tutorials.
It is key to educate people if we want to make sustainability a common sense, and this website is definitely a valuable resource for engineers, architectures and designers.
References:
http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/#sthash.EWdyN5rQ.dpuf