A Safe and Sustainable World. The Promise of Ecological Design - Todd, Nancy Jack
The Promise Of Ecological Design
KORTE INHOUD
In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable world could be created. In the ensuing years, along with scientists, agriculturists, and a host of enthusiastic amateurs and friends, they set out to discover new ways that basic human needs--in the form of food, shelter, and energy--could be met. A Safe and Sustainable World is the story of that journey, as it was and as it continues to be. The dynamics and the resilience of the living world were the Institute's model and the inspiration for their research. Central to their efforts then and now is, along with science, a spiritual quest for a more harmonious human role in our planet's future. The results of this work have now entered mainstream science through the emerging discipline of ecological design. Nancy Jack Todd not only relates a fascinating journey ...
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203 p. Hardcover with dustjacket (Fine copy.) Washington/Covelo/London, Island Press 2005 [Auteur: Todd, Nancy Jack] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: A Safe and Sustainable World. The Promise of Ecological Design]
