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Reweaving "In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis," Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan say in the book, Ecological Design. "It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used...We have used design cleverly in the service of narrowly defined human interests but have neglected its relationship with our fellow creatures. Such myopic design cannot fail to degrade the living world, and, by extension, our own health." The great challenge of this new century, then, will be to harmonize human activity with the earth's fragile biosphere. We will all have to create new lives based on ecological principles. In the Ecological Design section our Web site, we invite you to explore new ways of designing cities, neighborhoods, buildings, industry, food systems, and other areas of human activity. The section also includes an extensive discussion of sustainability topics. This is creative, exciting work. Join in!
EcoCity Cleveland
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Ecological design sections Declarations of ecological design Ecological design can be defined as 'any form of design
that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself
with living processes.' This integration implies that the design respects
species diversity, minimizes resource depletion, preserves nutrient and
water cycles, maintains habitat quality, and attends to all the other
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