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Heritage Conservation Saves Energy - Sustainable Development



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  • • Heritage Pays


  • • Heritage Tourism


  • • Heritage Conservation Saves Energy


    • • Introduction


    • • Recycle That House


    • • Go Green


      • • Case Study

    • • Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Community Development


    • • Urban Ecology and Heritage Preservation


      • • Case Study


  • • Heritage Workforce
heritage pays
heritage tourism




recycle that house

go green
go green - case study

heritage conservation and sustainable community development

urban ecology and heritage preservation
urban ecology and heritage conservation - case study

heritage workforce
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  "A team of U.S. scientists calculated that the shell of a two-storey, three-unit, brick apartment building embodied energy equivalent to 32,000 litres of gasoline! That’s the non-renewable energy it would take to replace the bricks."





What Do Heritage Buildings Have To Do With Saving The Environment?


It’s simple really.

Saving heritage buildings saves natural resources!

Sustainable community development is only possible if older buildings are reused.

BE AN ADVOCATE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION!
Resources:resources

  • • Waterfront Regeneration Trust. The Waterfront Trail. Toronto, 1995. ISBN: 0-7778-4082-0.


  • • John Marsh and Janet Fialkowski, eds. Linking Cultural and Natural Heritage, Peterborough: Trent University, 1995. ISBN: 0-9693790-4-8.

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