ENGR 101/ HUM 200: Technology

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ENGR 101/ HUM 200 Technology Society

• November 3, 2005

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Agenda

• Exam rescheduled for Tuesday 11/8
• Interim Project report due Monday 11/7
• Review of Amory Lovins video
• Making It Better Projects

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Amory Lovins Video

• Title Designing Products and Considering
  Consequences
• What were your takeaways?
• Review design examples
• 9 Dots problem
• Interface Corp.
• Village Homes, Davis, CA

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9 Dots

• Think outside the box
• E. Land People who seem to have had a new
  idea have often simply stopped having an old
  idea.
• Origami method, geographic method, cut out dots,
  statisticians, fat line

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Pipes Pumps

• Large pipes more expensive, less friction
• Pumps more expensive
• Optimizing the parts but pessimizing the system
• Lay out pipes first, then equipment
• Twelve fold savings because of friction
  reductions

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Village Homes

• Early green housing development
• Amenities including green spaces, edible
  landscape, low crime
• Swales and orchards capture water
• Savings on energy and irrigation costs
• High real estate value

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4 Principles of Natural Capitalism

• Dramatically increase the productivity of natural
  resources
• Shift to biologically inspired production models
• Move to solutions-based business model
• Reinvest in natural capital
• See HBR article and www.rmi.org

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Natural Capitalism

• Protect the biosphere
• Improve profits and competitiveness
• Make resources more productive
• California waste unsaleable production
• We all live downwind and downstream of what we
  make!
• Value of biosphere services is 33 trillion
  annually!

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Making It Better

• Define better
• How will you know you have succeeded?
• Clearly define target users (scope)
• If interviewing or testing them, how identify or
  recruit them?
• Multiple ways to prototype

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Next class

• Unit 4 readings online by Friday
• Friday screening Amory Lovins video lecture
• Groups meet
• Exam scheduled for Tuesday the 8th review
  session will be Monday 530pm-630 pm
• Pick up tests and Bridge Builder exercise!