The Importance Of Eco Design To The Environment

I think eco-design is when you design something that does not cause harm towards the environment and will help the environment rather than break it down. Eco design is building something that uses some kind of eco technology, such as a solar house. It is said that eco design is an existing product that is improved to help the environment, but functions the same or it is product that is designed that will not cause harm to the environment. The image on the left shows an eco-designed bag and compares it to plastic bags. It shows that a bad quality plastic bag that can only be reused a few times and thrown away can be redesigned into a good quality bag that can be reused for years resulting in reducing waste that is produced, this will help

Harm is being caused to the environment due to most of the human inventions. Eco design is helping design, or redesign something so that it is more eco-friendly. This will help reduce the harm being caused to the environment, which causes issues such as global warming. It is important that we are trying the help the environment and eco design enables us to do this. Inventions such as plastic bags are harming the environment are releasing harmful gases which pollute the air, we live in the environment and if the environment is polluted it will affect our health. The energy that is used is more than 10000 MTOE (Million tons of oil equivalents), this is causing harm to the environment, and so if we are able to find an eco-friendly way to produce energy (Solar Panels) and use this technology we will have energy and not harm the environment. More than 40,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas is being released globally, this is not good and will have a negative impact towards the environments, and this can only stop if things that are harming the environment can be redesigned to work the same but does not harm the environment as much. Eco technologies are needed so that the environment will not be harmed and impact the future

If you have an eco-friendly house not only are you helping the environment and fulfilling your needs but you could save money if you are getting your electricity from the sun. Eco houses reduce your carbon footprint and help the environment. If majority of people use eco-houses the greenhouse gases being released into the air will reduce thus all the health problems caused due to air pollution will decrease. If less people have less health problems the death rate will decrease. Eco design will make a big difference, the more eco –friendly the house is the better.

When looking at the graphs displayed on the left you can see that 21% of all energy consumed is from residential use. You can also see the residential energy consumption usage and that space heating and cooling is what used and uses the most energy for residential energy in 2010. With eco houses the energy consumption will possibly stay the same but how the energy is produced will not harm the environment as much as with a normal house so an eco-house will enable you to use the same amount of energy you are currently using but it will not harm the environment as much.

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