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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

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

11. Organic Design The Timeless Way of Building Bioshelters / Living Machines

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

13. 1973 Energy Crisis

14. 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

15. 1980s Industrial Ecology: Living Machines Roots of Certification: the Rainforest

16. 1990s Metrics of SustainabilityNatural Building

17. Waste & Building Shearing Layers Deconstruction