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Polar city, the Glossary

A polar city is a proposed sustainable polar retreat designed to house human beings in the future, in the event that global warming causes the equatorial and middle latitudes of the Earth to become uninhabitable for a long period of time.^[1]

15 relations: Alder, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Climate fiction, Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock, Longyearbyen, New Zealand, Patagonia, Polar regions of Earth, Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable energy, Tasmania, Zero-energy building.
Survivalism

Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

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Climate fiction

Climate fiction (sometimes shortened to cli-fi) is literature that deals with climate change.

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Gaia hypothesis

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

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James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist.

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Longyearbyen

Longyearbyen ("Longyear Town") is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000, and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Polar regions of Earth

The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

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Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs.

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Sustainable energy

Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the environment, the economy and society.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Zero-energy building

A Zero-Energy Building (ZEB), also known as a Net Zero-Energy (NZE) building, is a building with net zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site or in other definitions by renewable energy sources offsite, using technology such as heat pumps, high efficiency windows and insulation, and solar panels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_city