Over the past few decades a small number of designers and design professionals have begun to realize their influence on the natural world and have decided to change the way they think of design and designing. This new approach has become known as sustainable design. Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment. In others words designing physical objects with the idea of creating under the principles of ecological sustainable compositions. This type of design is being having great advance and advertising during the last couple of years, therefore is becoming a new alternative in terms of designing and construction in both architecture and urban planning areas.

There are several factors to consider when creating a sustainable design. They are ecological sustainability, built environment, economic sustainability and social responsibility. In our daily life there are basics principles that can be found in this new movement of designing. For example in order to create a sustainable house of building the architect has to be aware of the resources of nature and at the same time understand them and learn how to use them in favor of his design; there has to be coexistence between human and nature; accept responsibility for the consequences of the architect design's decisions; always trying to design in order to create objects of long term value; and a very important and basic: recycle and reuse. However there are a several principles of sustainable design that should be a significant part of our daily lives: 1. Use non-toxic, sustainably produced, or recycled materials which have a lower environmental impact than traditional materials. 2. Use manufacturing processes and produce products which are more energy efficient than