perspectives on sustainability

NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008

PERSPECTIVES on sustainabilityGreen Roundtable Panel, April 30, 2008


Kira GouldWilliam McDonough + Partners AIA Committee on the Environment Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design


Who is sustainability for?


UN Brundtland Report

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.


AIA Committee on the Environment

Sustainability envisions the enduring prosperity of all living things.

Sustainable design seeks to create communities, buildings, and products

that contribute to this vision.


Design is the first signal of human intention.


What is our design intent?


Our design intent is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world—with clean air, water, soil, and power—economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.


emulate natural systemsutilize renewable energy flowscelebrate diversityanticipate evolution


Listening How do we innovate?

What is sustainability? How do we measure progress?

What is sustainable design? How do we work together?

What is community? How do we learn?

How do we live on the land? What stories do we tell?

What are health and well‐being? How do we love more?

What are comfort and delight? Finding home

NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008Della Huff


Sustainability is life.

Sustainable design is design for life.


Brandy BrooksCommunity Design Resource Center

ENVIRONMENT

CDRC-Boston provides services and resources that assist communities to envision, advocate for, and implement high quality design solutions and ensure equal access to

ENVIRONMENT

ECONOMYSOCIETY

SOCIETY

ECONOMY

healthy, sustainable built environments.

What does it mean to be sustainable?

Brandy H. M. Brooks, Assoc. AIA, NOMAExecutive Director

[email protected]


Valerie FletcherAdaptive EnvironmentsInstitute for Human Centered Design

An international educational nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the experiences of people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design.

www.AdaptiveEnvironments.orgwww.HumanCenteredDesign.org

Name change on 30th anniversary in 2008…

Institute for Human Centered Design

Design is powerful and profoundlyinfluences our daily lives and our sense of confidence, comfort, and control.

Variation in ability is ordinary, not special,and affects most of us for some part of our lives.

Two core ideas...

Adaptive Environments


Marina SpitkovskayaAlternatives for Community and Environment

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Galen NelsonBoston Redevelopment Authority

Green Collar Job Map

Eco Industrial Parks

Contact Information:

Galen Nelson Green Tech Business [email protected]

PERSPECTIVES on sustainability

April 30, 2008


What are the roles of race and class?


How does community figure in? Geographical? Cultural?


How do we work together?


How do we tell the stories?


PERSPECTIVES on sustainability

April 30, 2008

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