Sentence examples for passive climate from inspiring English sources

His research expertise is in daylighting, energy modeling, passive climate control strategies, and performance driven design workflows in both urban and architectural scale.

Current opinions about this episode expose the contrast between those who see H. erectus as a highly social, cooperative species seeking out new ecological opportunities to exploit, and those preferring a passive, climate driven explanation for such an event.

It then presents the technical, institutional and cultural challenges to passive climate-sensitive design in the tropics and posits three ideas as part of the way forward: reformulation of thermal pleasure in the tropics, linking the 'in' and the 'out' at neighbourhood scale and provision of adaptive opportunities varied by activity patterns.

But in recent months he has told friends that the president has been too passive on climate change and has not been sufficiently supportive of Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, who has tried to advance greenhouse gas regulation against stiff Congressional opposition.

Thus dust is both a driver and a passive recorder of climate change under different climatic regimes of the Earth's past.

We now know that a passive response to climate disruption is far more costly than active engagement.

Incorporating appropriate solar passive features in climate responsive buildings are good options for energy conservation.

Shrouding buildings with plants solves the natural-light problem for agriculture, acts as a passive form of climate control for the buildings and makes for a nice view.

The main target is to find out capability of passive measures for climate conditions to avoid active drying and humidifying.

In Mediterranean climate, passive houses have to be designed to contrast overheating, considering the dynamic behaviour of the opaque envelope, the effect of shading devices and free-cooling.

The use of passive systems for climate control in providing indoor thermal comfort minimizes global trends in increasing the energy demand for active systems of climate control which has unacceptable negative impacts on the natural environment.