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Glossary

Terms for Architecture, Green Building & Energy


This glossary includes more than 300 solar terms, as well as hundreds of additional sustainable design and construction terms.

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Fossil Fuel Depletion

Definition: Fossil fuel depletion is at the heart of the sustainability debate. It is important to recognize that this impact addresses only the depletion aspect of fossil fuel extraction, not the fact that the extraction itself may generate impacts. Extraction impacts, such as methane emissions from coal mining, are addressed in other impacts, such as global warming. (measured in surplus MJ)