Designed for the Future: Practical Ideas for Sustainability
From packing materials made of mushrooms to buildings engineered to cool and power themselves, sustainable design can play a key role in helping people adapt to a changing planet. That’s a central message of the new book Designed for the Future, by Jared Green, senior communications manager for the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Green asked more than 80 experts in sustainable design — architects, journalists, urban planners, and others — to point to a specific project that gives them hope that a sustainable future is possible.
Their selections varied widely, from communities that leave no carbon footprint to cutting-edge technological research programs. The respondents were not allowed to cite anything they had worked on themselves. But in looking in places as diverse as Belfast, Seoul, and Toronto, they found innovative approaches that show a sustainable way forward.
This gallery highlights a few of the projects they say have inspired them.
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