Greening Palestinian universities through sustainable engineering, renewable energy and solar energy fields

Abstract

Greening universities means the serious and wide implementation of all processes and techniques that lead to reduce hazards and emissions that harm environment through reaching the needs of the current society in an economic way without damaging the needs of future generations. This makes green body stands on three main pillars: environment, economy and society. It is required to serve the social needs and improve the level of life for people through increasing economic profits and revenues of projects and companies without deteriorating the surrounding environment. This implements the fact that universities should concentrate on increasing their green planted areas and on using sustainable and renewable energy resources to cover their energy needs.