Sonoma
Mountain Village: Sustainability Action Plan Report
Developer Codding
Enterprises and BioRegional have published a Sustainability
Action Plan Report for Sonoma Mountain Village - America's
first official One Planet Community. The report includes
a "mini-plan" for each of the Ten One Planet Principles,
and details how the suburban neighborhood of almost
1900 homes plans to slash total direct emissions by
83% (down to just 2.6 tons CO2 per year per household).
The One Planet Community will meet the targets laid
out in California's stringent AB32 emissions reduction
law 5 years early, and by 2020 will radically exceed
the targets (AB32 requires a 25% GHG reduction state-wide).
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Report (PDF 1.9M)
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Z-Squared Reports
A template for the flagship One Planet Community to
be built in the Thames Gateway just east of London in
the UK, the Z-squared Concept Community envisions homes
and employment for up to 5,000 people, with retail,
leisure, health and education facilities nearby.
Using information on resource use and waste generation
and learning from BedZED, BioRegional led a design team
to develop the initial concept design and generate several
reports of value to other One Planet Communities around
the world. Working with KBR infrastructure engineers
and Fulcrum Consulting we have mapped the flows of resources
through the community; heat, coolth, power, water, wastewater,
waste – and we have evaluated technology options
that could deliver zero carbon and zero waste. The options
were costed by Cyril Sweet cost consultants and compared
to a base case development. Architects, Foster &
Partners undertook preliminary massing studies.
Main Report: Z-squared:
Enabling One Planet Living in the Thames Gateway
Additional
Reports follow
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