The Built Environment 40% of the economys material throughput 65% of electricity 30% of GHG emissions 60% of ozone-depleting substances Our everyday environment

Principles of a Green Economy 1.The Primacy of Human Need, Service, Use-value, Intrinsic Value & Quality 2.Following Natural Flows 3.Waste Equals Food 4.Elegance and Multifunctionality 5.Appropriate Scale / Linked Scale 6.Diversity 7.Self-Reliance, Self-Organization, Self-Design 8.Participation & Direct Democracy 9.Human Creativity and Development 10.The Strategic role of the Built-environment, the Landscape & Spatial Design

The Ecological Built-Environment Qualitative Development is Place-based Eco-efficiency: tied to spatial design Need to Integrate structures of Invisibility: home & workplace formal & vernacular landscapes

Industrialism: The Divided Economy Invisible Visible Use-value Exchange-value Consumption Production People Things Unpaid Paid Women Men Informal Formal Private Public

Dematerialization & the ESCO model Savings as a virtual source of energy The Green Economy: creates Wealth through savings (or dematerialization) Savings as a source of Investment Challenge of financial design: dealing with first costs

The Centrality of the Landscape The industrial age replaced the natural processes of the landscape with the global machine…while regenerative design seeks now to replace the machine with landscape. …John Tillman Lyle

Energy & Spatial Organization Energy & the Landscape Eco-infrastructure: going with nature The Eco-system Model: eco-infill Integrating the Divided Economy Every place a locus of eco-production Buildings as producers not just consumers of energy

The Post WW II Waste Economy Permanent War Economy The Suburb Economy: Oil / Autos / Subdivisions

The greatest misallocation of resources in human history. …James Howard Kunstler

Key Areas of Green Building Green Building Certification --new construction --retrofit --neighbourhoods Natural Building & eco- community design

Organic Design The Timeless Way of Building Bioshelters / Living Machines

History of Green Building earliest green buildings: hunting-gathering Neolithic, vernacular

1973 Energy Crisis

Superinsulation late 70s/early 80s emphasis on holding the heat in. dangers: –condensation: if not airtight enough. –bad air: if too airtight result: more attention to ventilation and healthy materials

1980s Industrial Ecology: Living Machines Roots of Certification: the Rainforest

1990s Metrics of SustainabilityNatural Building

Waste & Building Shearing Layers Deconstruction