Positive Environmental Effects of Plants

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Positive Environmental Effects of Plants

• As an Example for Benefits of Environment In Life
  and Architecture.

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Photo-synthesis the core of life

• Inputs
• solar energy, water, Carbon Dioxide
• Output
• oxygen, Carbohydrates (food, fuel.)
• Catalysts
• fertilizers

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Metabolism and Combustion

• Inputs
• oxygen, Carbohydrates (food, fuel.)
• Output
• energy, Carbon Dioxide, water vapor (sometimes)
• Bi-product
• fertilizers!
• Humans and Plants complement each other.
• The only resource they compete for is Water!

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The world food producer

• Food for people basic foods, fruits, drinks.
• Fodder for lifestock

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Chemical effects

• Oxygen generation
• Air quality and breathing
• Carbon Dioxide consumption
• Earth heating
• Earth thermal balance
• glass house effect
• Heat Islands
• Case Study Egypt and the Hazard of flooding Nile
  delta

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Case Study Egypt and the Hazard of flooding Nile
delta
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Energy source

• Plants Changes solar energy to chemical energy
• Direct form
• wood, straw,
• Metamorphic form
• alcohol Brazil and mixed fuel
• fossilized form
• petroleum oil, coal (non renewable)

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Importance of energy

• Industry, transportation, Environmental Control,
• Irrigation and Agriculture,. Civilization
• Energy means more than Civilization it means
  life
• If energy has no cost, we might have desalted the
  seas and oceans, and there would be no water nor
  food problem any where in the world!
• Case Study Brazil and forest cutting

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Material sources

• Fibers for cloth and textiles
• Wood for building and furniture
• Glue, rubber, .
• Medicines, Natural and synthetic

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Climatic effects

• Sun Shading
• evaporative cooling
• why trees are the best shading device?
• controlling the wind

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So what shall we do?

• As Architects and planners, We are responsible
• for protecting trees and greens,
• and giving the world more
• and more of them
• within the built
• environment
• that we
• create.

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How?

• If you can plant a tree in your project,
• plant 10 trees!

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How?

• Try hard to avoid cutting any tree to build a
  project, you dont know how many years you need
  to grow another one with the same value.
• build around it
• include it in the building
• in a court or atrium
• include the trunk in the Interior and leave the
  greens exposed to the sun

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• If you have no way but to cut a tree to build a
  project,
• plant 10 Trees instead,and ask God for
  forgiveness!

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