1. Sustainability: A Journey To a Built Sustainable Community & an Amazing Picture of What Life Will Soon Be Like By Stuart W. Rose, PhD Deborah seraya

2. About Stuart W.Rose ● He is the designer of Gardner Atriums ● The project it called Garden Atriums homes, it considered to be the national’s most sustainable housing community because the homes are net zero homes and address more dimension of sustainability

3. What Dr.Rose does? ● Together with his wife, Trina Duncan, they a built different kind of home, for a different kind of life. ● Has built a small sustainable community of homes that are designed to provide 100 percent of the heating,cooling,power, water and improved air quality with what comes naturally to the home site

4. Summary ● A guidance on how and why to live sustainably ● A way to reduce the depletion of earth’s natural resources

5. Garden Atrium Homes ● Each house in the Garden Atriums are built with an unusual quirk:Tropical trees and plants grow throughout each home, gathering sun from huge central skylights.

6. Continues…... ● The house is not just about the garden. The rest of the house is designed based upon green building principles with low toxics products throughout the house ● Designed and built this sustainable, net zero house which collects rainwater from up to 90% of the household water use and solar power in place of traditional utilities ● The Garden Atrium homes aren’t just energy efficient, they are net zero. They produce as much extra energy during the day as they use at night

7. Garden Atriums ● Have a separate garden area to grow their own flowers, plants and other fruits and vegetable. ● Garden Atriums Homes has it own mini farm, where farmers comes to harvest

8. Purpose of the Garden Atriums homes Garden Atriums Video

9. The benefit of the Atrium Homes ● Benefit of the homes is the use of the materials that do no harm and take nothing away from the earth’s resource

10. Resources http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/content/sustainable- being-a-personal-journey-linking-whole-health-and- sustainability-education_2015_03/ http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/blog/sustainability- personal-journey-built-sustainable-community http://www.sustainability.org/ http://blog.utzcertified.org/2015/01/27/sustainability-is-a- journey-not-a-destination/ https://www.iisd.org/business/sd_journey.aspx