Ecological Footprint
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[edit] Ecological Footprint Goal
To maximize use of surface area (primarily exterior), and lot space to facilitate local species diversity and wellness [positive footprint].
[edit] Ecological Footprint Ideas
[edit] Native Habitat
- How to we achieve positive ecological footprint
- What was the Green Dorm lot before it was a parking lot?
- We should return any unused space to the plants that should be there
- Green Roof/Balcony can be habitat as well
- Utilizing unused surface area (exterior walls, crevices, etc.) to promote species diversity [Reconciliation Ecology].
- This should be applied to at-least half of our exterior surface area and the better majority of our lot space.
- Link with Jasper Ridge staff to assess the lot and local species that our plot could focus on (in the works).
- Build a relationship with neighboring residences to incorporate some of our initiatives on their properties/unused spaces. This creates more potential habitats and allows species to have access to more surface area. We can't simply assign species to the green dorm lot.
- Explore the research topic "How do we promote species diversity for organisms that will be effected by climate change" (this could go with the Jasper Ridge Collaboration)
- Use of bird boxes or similar artifical homes for species.
- How do we make this organized and cool? More specifically, how do we mimic the natural disorder of nature that makes its so aesthetically pleasing?
- Good idea on incorporating other houses... having a community compost or rainwater collection through the green dorm would reduce the footprint of more than one house.
- Through green roofs and landscaped balconies, we could end up with more landscaped area than we have total site area. An architecture/developer company called Optima did that in their Camel View project in Arizona. Of course we'd be looking at native, non-water intensive plants.
- Explore the feasibility of permeable pavement surfaces around the dorm.
