Naima Khan, award winning Dubai-based interior designer, creates timeless spaces for conscious living.Her beautifully designed houses ate transformed into happy and healthy homes. Go Green with Green Life Style
“Respect Nature , Protect Environment , Design for Human Comfort”
The G
reen & Sustainable Life Style is a “designed for purpose life style” based on sustainability and green design principles .It improves the overall health & well being of human beings and creates healthy life spaces for them while minimizing the negative impact on the global environment. Sustainable design Vs Green design
( Environmental Responsible Design)
Sustainable Design: The Macro perspective
Protection of the health and welfare of global ecosystems for current and future generations
Green Design: The Micro perspective
Protection of People’s health and welfare in the built environment
Why there is a need for Sustainability in our everyday life style ? Most human activities that has negative impact on the environment have linkages to the construction and the interior design industry. The materials used in the building of today’s homes contribute to indoor air pollution. The modern invention of adhesives, synthetic carpets, synthetic paints, simulated wood products, synthetic plastics of various types, polyurethane foams, stain guards, and much more, all contribute to a virtual chemical soup within our living space. The air pollution found within our homes can be up to 10 times greater than that of outdoor air pollution due to the out gassing process of the materials used. In United Nation Organization generated an official definition of sustainability
‘An approach to progress which meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’
Bruntland Report
‘Our Common Future’ 1987
Due the geographical and climatic conditions of the UAE, the overall per capita carbon footprint of the UAE is on a very high scale. The main population is based on the workforce that spends 90 % of their time indoors. Transportation, High Consumption of energy and water , lack of oxygen, fresh air and sunlight in high rise air conditioned buildings have given many challenges to the country to reduce carbon foot print and get rid of sick building syndrome. Although the government of UAE has taken many steps toward sustainability and building green buildings. However ,it is the responsibility of every membered of the society and become conscious , save energy and improve his personal health. The Green Life Style is a way of thinking and living
It involves making conscious decisions about your actions
• What you consume?
• How you consume?
• How it impacts
The Global environment, The Community, The Surroundings & People around you
The Green Life style reduces carbon footprint and protects the global environment from global warning. It saves natural resources of the land and minimizes the greenhouse gas effect.
