Category: New Perspectives

  • Are we eating ourselves out of a healthy planet?

    Experts estimate that close to half of the human impact on the environment is directly or indirectly related to food production and consumption. This I pulled from the back cover of a book called “System Innovation for Sustainability 3“, case studies in sustainable consumption and production – food and agriculture. At first glance the book…

  • From Principles to Practices

    From Principles to Practices

    Creating a sustaining architecture for the 21st century, using the enduring laws of nature. by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, from green@work magazine ’03 Just over a decade ago, when the city of Hannover, Germany, asked us to develop a set of design principles for the 2000 World’s Fair, design for sustainability was in its…