Last spring, Mr. Spitzer's wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, embarked on an effort to make the mansion more environmentally friendly, planning the installation of energy-efficient appliances and more.
The psychological needs of urban dwellers should be considered when planning environmentally sustainable cities; after all, cities will only be successful if residents want to live in them.
To ensure economically, socially and environmentally responsible transportation planning, it is necessary to consider future weather variations driven by climate change.
In the SIMBA global crop-modelling environment, SIMBA-NEM is a key sub-model which provides essential information concerning the sustainability of the simulated system and thus permits planning environmentally friendly cropping systems.
Environmentally sustainable planning greatly relies on the support of synthetic analysis by using models that integrate land use and transportation planning, dwelling and employment-related spatial distributions, as well as other related social economy factors.
Some cities, like Portland, Ore., have avoided becoming highly toxic by devoting city resources to environmentally friendly planning.
These two eco-districts are globally recognized to be models for sustainable environmentally oriented planning using solar energy (photovoltaics and solar thermal collectors).
MAKING highways safe and environmentally sound usually means planning for guardrails, oil runoff and the like.
WHEN Kinne Yon, a developer, and her brother Neal Sigety were planning an environmentally friendly rental tower at 1510 Lexington Avenue a few years ago, they incorporated a charging station for electric cars — even though there were few, if any, plug-in models available at the time.
The absence of this broad frame of reference presents a problem for managers trying to integrate environmentally sound choices into planning and management.
