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The entry is titled: Green Buildings and Infrastructure Are Half the Solution
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http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2008/4/30/Green-Buildings-and-Infrastructure-Are-Half-the-Solution "Green buildings have captured the imagination of many in the mainstream, but for green professionals the time has come to stop designing for mere energy efficiency and start designing to regenerate and restore. And that means taking responsibility for what people do in buildings and communities after they are built."
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Also from the website:
Communities are people, not buildings.
Communities will change when the people living in them change.
At least half of human impact on the planet comes from our
lifestyles the choices we make every day. Where, and how, we
travel. What we eat. What we wear. The stuff we buy, and how we get
rid of that stuff when we're done with it.
These lifestyle choices are not made in a vacuum. They are made
in communities, and are indelibly influenced by community design and
buildings.
The way we've designed our cities and buildings in the past has
created a template for living that most people follow without much
thought, and that template makes it very inconvenient to live
sustainably.
Those of us who create and run the places we live in have
tremendous influence to change this template, and and to make it
easier for people to change their lifestyles.
Some of us have been pre-occupied with making buildings, streets,
and infrastructure that use building materials, water, and energy in
smarter ways. We call ourselves "green professionals." We call our
movement the "green building movement." But we now recognize that
the biggest problems are fundamentally social ones.
Since buildings and technology represent only half of the problem
and half of the solution, clearly the present green building
movement doesn't go far enough.
All across our cities, entrepreneurs and environmental groups are
emerging with solutions to specific challenges of our unsustainable
lifestyles car-sharing companies, local food advocates, re-use
innovators. But most of these green lifestyle initiatives are not
joined up with the green building movement, or each other.
We urgently need an umbrella movement that will bring us all
together to design, build, and operate truly sustainable communities
with intent. The time has come to apply the vast ingenuity of the
green building movement to making green lifestyles just as
convenient as "grey lifestyles." The time has come to broaden our
design teams, to bring green lifestyle experts to the table.
We cannot wait for someone else to bring us all together. We are
the ones we have been waiting for.
Read more. Take the pledge. Participate.
http://www.greenmanifesto.org/
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