SustainableScience.org Inc.

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This site first appeared on January 22, 1997; last updated on June 17, 2010

Sustainable Science and Engineering (SS&E) is an intellectual framework for all knowledge-based systems that abide by a requisite of sustainability, conservation and optimum recycling of natural resources. Our LPSA (light prestressed segmented arch) structural technology not only demonstrates this requisite but also defines a gainful plan of action for sustainable development out of halting global deforestation.

A gainful engineering technology to halt global deforestation is presented here. It is based on the structural use of in-the-round small trees in construction instead of sawn mature timber which motivates deforestation. The technology offers a solid basis for sustainable socio-economic development, worldwide . It also leads to low-cost, high quality, earthquake-, hurricane– and flood-durable designs for buildings, and bridges. Of special and immediate importance are structures for regions exposed to flooding due to global warming. This is the gist of this institute’s Project Proposal, entitled: durable building and sustainable development out of halting deforestation. The Proposal is published on the European portal of Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), seeking consortium partners and EU funding. Click here to access the Proposal.

Last January, this site completed its 13th year of online existence. We are very pleased to see that the subject matter of this institute’s technologies and mission have now become very “fashionable”, worldwide. Everybody now supports sustainability and talks about it a great deal. Instead, this institute continues to push its technologies quietly. We believe that the only solution is through science as a tool to transform the heavy tax of sustainability into a social and economic asset. Unfortunately, our biggest hurdle seems to be the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. At least, none of the NIH heroes has ever dared to challenge us intellectually and in public!