The document imagines buildings, city blocks, and communities that are designed and constructed to be as efficient and self-sufficient as natural systems by generating their own renewable energy, capturing and treating their own water, sharing resources, and growing food without fossil fuel dependence. It notes that the world faces challenges of peak oil, water, and phosphorus, and interconnectedness and ecological decline, suggesting a need for more sustainable systems of human habitation and civilization.
The document imagines buildings, city blocks, and communities that are designed and constructed to be as efficient and self-sufficient as natural systems by generating their own renewable energy, capturing and treating their own water, sharing resources, and growing food without fossil fuel dependence. It notes that the world faces challenges of peak oil, water, and phosphorus, and interconnectedness and ecological decline, suggesting a need for more sustainable systems of human habitation and civilization.
The document imagines buildings, city blocks, and communities that are designed and constructed to be as efficient and self-sufficient as natural systems by generating their own renewable energy, capturing and treating their own water, sharing resources, and growing food without fossil fuel dependence. It notes that the world faces challenges of peak oil, water, and phosphorus, and interconnectedness and ecological decline, suggesting a need for more sustainable systems of human habitation and civilization.
as efficiently as a flower: a building informed by its bioregions characteristics that generates all of its own energy with renewable resources, captures and treats all of its water, and that operates efficiently and for maximum beauty.
IMAGINE a city block or a college
campus sharing resources from building to building, growing food, and functioning without dependency on fossil-fuel based transportation.
IMAGINE true sustainability in our
homes , workplaces, neighborhoods, villages, towns, and cities. Socially Just, Culturally Rich, and Ecologically Restorative. WE ARE ENTERING A WORLD OF PEAK OIL, PEAK WATER AND PEAK PHOSPHORUS, A WORLD THAT IS GLOBALLY INTERCONNECTED YET ECOLOGICALLY IMPOVERISHED. I hope that at the end of the semester, we can all agree that we have GREEN minds.