METABOLISM SYMBIOSIS R E S I L I E N C E SOCIETY LIFESTYLES INFRASTRUCTURE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CITIES BIOCYCLING SERVICE-USE RECYCLING SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Complexity! History! Respect! Clarity! Action! ‘Sustainable development’ is policy, not science 1990s Global North-South development framework Priorities: social vs resources/nature
Complexity! History! Respect! Clarity! Action! ‘Sustainable development’ is policy, not science 1990s Global North-South development framework Priorities: social vs resources/nature Short-Term vs Long-Term
thousands of animals were killed every day to make curry. But now with the writing of this Dhamma edict only three creatures, two peacocks and a deer are killed, and the deer not always. Asoka, c. 250 BCE
somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. John Muir, c.1900 SUSTAINABLE HISTORY
easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. Rachel Carson, 1962 SUSTAINABLE HISTORY
building like a tree? What would it be like to design a city like a forest? So what would a building be like if it were photosynthetic? What if it took solar energy and converted it to productive and delightful use. William McDonough, 2007 SUSTAINABLE HISTORY
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