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What does sustainability mean to your organization? Why did you decide to do sustainability work? How does your organization address what is called the triple bottom line of sustainability--integrating environmental, social, and economic sustainability? What are examples of some of your projects based on sustainability principles?
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NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
PERSPECTIVES on sustainabilityGreen Roundtable Panel, April 30, 2008
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
Kira GouldWilliam McDonough + Partners AIA Committee on the Environment Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
Who is sustainability for?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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.
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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.
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
Design is the first signal of human intention.
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
What is our design intent?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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.
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
emulate natural systemsutilize renewable energy flowscelebrate diversityanticipate evolution
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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 2008
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008Della Huff
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
Sustainability is life.
Sustainable design is design for life.
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
Marina SpitkovskayaAlternatives for Community and Environment
Racial Biases to Exposure from Cumulative Hazards
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NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
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
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
What are the roles of race and class?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
How does community figure in? Geographical? Cultural?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
How do we work together?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
How do we tell the stories?
NELSON Perspectives on Sustainability: Green Roundtable 2008
PERSPECTIVES on sustainability
April 30, 2008