Please describe a domain or an area of opportunity that you’d like to use as the focus for Design Project 2.
Start by reviewing the initiatives described on the Sustainable Stanford website. Then, identify the domain that you’d like to explore and use as the focus for your Design Project 2.
The idea is that you’ll be working with a Stanford Group to understand their challenges and needs as they promote their sustainability initiatives. You’re task will be to work with them to design a project that will help to promote sustainable behaviors and practices for the clients that they serve.
Please share your initial thoughts in a few paragraphs below…
Interviewees
Julie Muir: zero waste systems manager in the Office of Sustainability
Peninsula Sanitary Services Inc. (PSSI）: individual company does waste hauling from campus.
Office of sustainability at Stanford
Questions:
- What is the goal to achieve regarding to the LCA of the building?
- Which specific building is the one you are trying to work on?
- The concept of “zero waste” is only for construction materials or including other aspects like food waste, chemical waste…etc?
- Do you have a specific monitoring system for measuring whether the goal is achieved?
- What is your next step after getting the sorted waste? i.e. how to use them to re-generate renewable energy?
- What is the expected timeline for finishing the projects?