Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Name: Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9781597261418

ISBN-10: 1597261416

ISBN-13: 9781597261418

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Anniversary)

Authors: Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan, Sim Van der Ryn

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Ecological Designis a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. nbsp; Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 3/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sim Van der Ryn is professor emeritus in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and founder and principal of Sim Van der Ryn + Associates, an architectural firm specializing in ecological design.Stuart Cowan is a general partner with Autopoiesis LLC in Portland, Oregon, which offers design, development, and finance services internationally for large-scale sustainability projects. He recently served as research director at Ecotrust.



Preface


Acknowledgments


A Ten-Year Retrospective



Bringing Design to Life


Sustainability and Design


An Introduction to Ecological Design


Nature's Geometry



The Ecological Design Process


Introduction: The Compost Privy Story


First Principle: Solutions Grow from Place


Second Principle: Ecological Accounting Informs Design


Third Principle: Design with Nature


Fourth Principle: Everyone Is a Designer


Fifth Principle: Make Nature Visible


Resource Guide for Ecological Design


Bibliography


Index