Kevin McCloud - Man Made Home (channel 4)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELemRy7CO7cKc&feature=plcp

Task 2

1. Design to satisfy real needs as opposed to transient, fashionable or market-driven needs?
2. Design to minimise the ecological footprint of the product/material/service product ie. reduce resource consumption, including energy and water?
3. Design to harness solar income (sun, wind, water or sea power) rather than the non renewable nature capital such as fossil fuels?
4. Design to enable the separation of components of the product/material or service product at the end of life in order to encourage recycling or reuse of materials and/or components?
5. Design to exclude the use of substances toxic or hazardous to human and other forms of life at all
stages of the product/material/service products life cycle?
6 design to engender maximum benefits to the intended audience and to educate the client and the user and thereby create a more equable future?
7. Design to use locally available materials and resources wherever possible? (thinking globally but acting locally)
8. Design to exclude innovation lethargy by re-examine original assumptions behind existing concepts and products/materials/service product?
9. Design to dematerialise products not services wherever feasible?
10. Design to maximise a product/material/service product's benefits to communities?
11. Design to encourage modarularity in design to permit sequential purchases, as needs require and funds
12. Design to foster debate and challenge the status quo surrounding existing
products/materials/ service products.
13. Publish eco-pluralistic designs in the public domain for everyone's benefit, especially
those designs that commerce will not manufacture.
14. Design to create more sustainable products/materials/service products for a more
sustainable future.

I have researched 'Man Made Homes' by Kevin McCloud (grand designs  on channel four. his unique project consists of building a portable cabin (man shed) which is built from recycled objects and made from sustainable items.
The one port of this series is episode 3 where Kevin creates carbon which comes from poo and transferes this into cooking gas. This was all created quite easily.
The 14 points from task two (above) are all aplicable with this invention this could sustain and maintain to tak over fossil fuels. The idea of using the toilet and thus fuelling your home is essential to the future. This idea is what should challenge the way we think.