science

Inhabitat

Inhabitat is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Inhabitat rather than just read about it. In short: Inhabitat is a blog focused on green design and lifestyle topics. The website covers the future of design as well as technology and architectural projects that emphasize energy efficiency, sustainability, and connection to the surrounding environment.

Key takeaways

Inhabitat belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Inhabitat to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Inhabitat from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Inhabitat is a blog focused on green design and lifestyle topics. The website covers the future of design as well as technology and architectural projects that emphasize energy efficiency, sustainability, and connection to the surrounding environment.

History Inhabitat was founded by Columbia University architectural graduate student Jill Fehrenbacher in 2005. In a blog post, Fehrenbacher described quitting her job in digital marketing to go to architectural school, and then dropping out to focus on growing the site. "I wanted to forge my voice in the design world and get to know the designers and thought-leaders that were actually making, building and creating amazing things in the real world," she wrote in 2011. By 2007, the site had a full-time salaried managing editor and around a dozen contributors who earned a nominal fee for their work. Inhabitat also launched a child-focused site called Inhabitots and an online shop. In 2009, Inhabitat raised more than $500,000 in financing from a European investment company. The Los Angeles-based media company Internet Brands acquired Inhabitat in September 2011, with Fehrenbacher agreeing to continue as the site's manager and editor-in-chief. In June 2017, Fehrenbacher announced she was stepping down from running Inhabitat to focus on her family.

Recognition In early 2009, the New York Times featured Fehrenbacher and Inhabitat in its Home & Garden section. Time magazine put Inhabitat on "The Green List 100" in 2009 in the Websites category. Mother Nature Network (MNN) named the site to its list of eight influential green websites in 2010.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Inhabitat

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Inhabitat claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Inhabitat before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Inhabitat ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Inhabitat

In research: Inhabitat appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Inhabitat in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Inhabitat is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American environmental websites, Sustainable architecture, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Inhabitat outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Inhabitat in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Inhabitat means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Inhabitat out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Inhabitat in simple terms?

Why does Inhabitat matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Inhabitat?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Inhabitat.