Just prior to periods of great migration, certain species display agitation and restlessness - a phenomenon referred to by scientists as zugunruhe. McLennan identifies a similar pattern emerging among people yearning for a sustainable future. This book is intended as a catalyst for anyone interested in exploring a deeper, more meaningful connection to the environmental movement. Zugunruhe is a work of creative genius that draws us into an engaging journey of self-discovery, brings the biggest and most frightening issues of our time up close, and invites our engagement, notes David Korten, It will leave you envisioning human possibilities you never previously imagined. Profound, personal and practical, McLennan s narrative reminds us that individual efforts ripple outward and can lead to revolutionary change for the betterment of people and planet.
Foreword by Janine Benyus

Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration to Profound Environmental Change

Jason F. McLennan

Ecotone Publishing

Who's Green 2008 is the annual green building directory published by Ecotone Publishing, designed to serve as the pre-eminent resource book for locating firms, companies, organizations and institutions that are actively participating in the growth of the green building industry.     Who's Green 2008 contains contact information and profiles for the principal organizations involved in the North American green building industry.     Categories include: Architecture Firms; MEP Engineering Firms; Interior Design Firms; Green Consulting Firms; Landscape Architecture & Civil Engineering Firms; Builders with Green Expertise; Developers of Green Properties; Green Building Organizations and Non-Profits; Green Business Support Service Companies; Schools of Architecture with a green focus.    We've done your market research for you!

Who's Green 2008

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Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field? In Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design, Kira Gould and Lance Hosey explore these questions through informal conversations with architects, designers, consultants, policymakers, educators, and students. What they find is that women may be changing how we all see our world and our work.

Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design

Business & Money

Gould, Kira

Lance Hosey

Economics

Transformational Thought by Jason F. McLennan is a dynamic collection of provocative essays that critically challenge the design practices and thinking that are interwoven within our contemporary cultural, societal, and personal value systems. Rather than an ominous commentary about the terminal shortcomings of society, McLennan relates his architectural acumen and his eclectic knowledge of sustainability, proposing an intelligent, and sometimes radical rethinking of how we live, work and plan for a living future.
 McLennan addresses a wide variety of themes from personal to far-reaching systemic change. Each insight points the reader toward sustainable solutions, challenges the status quo, balances practicality with philosophy, and prepares us for a healthy and prosperous future. McLennan advocates for rapid social change calling for people to engage in productive initiatives beyond current models and to cooperate, take chances and experiment outside of current corporate imagination and our precarious societal scaffolding.
 Transformational Thought provides us with compelling and timely direction in the most highly transformative era humanity is yet to face.

Transformational Thought

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens has long been recognized as an environmental leader for its deeply green campus and its mission to advance sustainability, and promote the well being of both people and the planet. For the final phase of a three-part expansion, Phipps took a revolutionary step. In 2007, it accepted the Living Building Challenge to guide the design and construction of its new research, education and administration facility. When the Center for Sustainable Landscapes opened to the public in December, 2012, Phipps demonstrated that commitment and collaboration can turn an ambitious idea into a high-performance building that operates as efficiently, cleanly and beautifully as nature s architecture. Combining project-specific details with reflections from the design team, BUILDING IN BLOOM tells the story of how this remarkable structure came to life from concept to ribbon cutting. This book, enhanced by its superb full-color imagery, is the first in a series of publications in the Living Building Challenge Series documenting the path to a sustainable future.

BUILDING IN BLOOM - The Making of the Center for Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Mary Adam Thomas

Intégral: Revolutionary Engineering is a treatise of innovation in deep green building design, featuring stories and ideas from some of the leading engineers and designers in the world. These inside stories share the challenges and lessons of many transformative designs throughout the world, including the first net zero lab, the largest net zero museum, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, healthy healthcare facilities in Europe, eco-districts in Canada and the eastern U.S., and some of the first Living Buildings on the planet.
 The hand-illustrated stories demonstrate philosophical principles of revolutionary engineering, which include throwing out antiquated rules of thumb, transforming design processes to be intrinsically integrative, and expanding the roles and relationships between engineers, architects, clients, and occupants. Intégral: Revolutionary Engineering is for trailblazers who care about advancing the building and construction industry toward greater occupant health and happiness, and stronger resilience and regenerative systems.

INTÉGRAL: Revolutionary Engineering

Molly Miller

The greenest childcare centre in the world is here. The model community of UniverCity is a living, growing testing site for the most innovative urban planning concepts and building designs necessary for the creation of an ecologically robust and economically sustainable future and the home of the UniverCity Childcare Centre Living Building. Embracing the Living Building Challenge, the most stringent sustainability building standard in the world, the UniverCity Childcare Centre Living Building project represents the pinnacle of integrated design and high performance, demonstrating to the world that our most precious citizens (our children) deserve an environment that is healthy, beautiful and supportive of their needs. Generation Green tells the extraordinary story of how the UniverCity community leadership along with a talented team of deep green design professionals and a dedicated group of educators collectively elevated the bar for ecological design and early childhood education. Remarkably, not only is this leading-edge facility a net zero water and net zero energy building made with healthy materials, but also the UniverCity Childcare Centre Living Building was delivered at a cost on par with conventional construction. Generation Green is part of the first wave of groundbreaking publications in the Living Building Challenge Series documenting the path to a sustainable future.

GENERATION GREEN: The Making of the UniverCity Childcare Centre

Michael D. Berrisford

Pliny Fisk III has long been recognized as a leader and one of a handful of original pioneers for what has become the green building/sustainable design and planning movement. Pliny is one of those rare visionaries considered eccentric just for being decades ahead of his time. He imagines a future yet to be realized and with tools such as his Lens protocols, he begins to chart a course of how we might get there. The biography titled Pliny Fisk III: Creating a Maximum Potential Future tells many tales of how the work of this remarkable innovator, inventor, and rabble-rouser influenced a generation of designers.
 Author Sam Martin artfully combines specific details from the colorful life and storied career of Pliny with reflections from the man himself, weaving into the narrative an impressive cadre of his colleagues and cohorts through the years. Part mad scientist, part visionary, and always a roll up his sleeves and get things done man of the people, Pliny has become an icon of the green building movement. From prototype to podium, Pliny and his Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems have revolutionized the way we design for an ecologically inspired built environment.
 This 320 page black and white book, enhanced by its contrasting vintage imagery and futuristic graphic concepts, is the first in a series of publications about GREEN MASTERS who have forged the cutting-edge of sustainable design.

Pliny Fisk III: Creating a Maximum Potential Future

Sam Martin

Entering the second decade of the 21st Century, it is clear that the successful advancement of sustainable design offers a powerful means for transforming the built environment. Visionary design practitioners play pivotal roles applying their extensive knowledge, skills and insight with resolve to many of the political, economic, cultural and environmental challenges of our time.
 The Ecological Engineer: Glumac is the second book in a series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the pioneering work of one of North America s leading MEP sustainable design firms. For forty years, Glumac has redefined integrated project delivery and energy efficiency for some of the most iconic high-performance buildings in the world. Today its engineers are charting new territory with innovative strategies for air, water, light, comfort and energy that continue to push the boundaries of green architecture.
 Now, for the first time, The Ecological Engineer: Glumac offers a comprehensive look at the unique projects, processes and personalities behind the success of this award-winning firm.

The Ecological Engineer - Glumac

David R. Macaulay

The Living Building Challenge is an attempt to dramatically raise the bar from a paradigm of doing less harm to one in which we view our role as steward and co-creator of a true Living Future. The Challenge defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to rapidly diminish the gap between current limits and the end-game positive solutions we seek. The Challenge aims to transform how we think about every single act of design and construction as an opportunity to positively impact the greater community of life and the cultural fabric of our human communities.
 The Living Building Challenge was the 2012 winner of the Buckminster Fuller Prize, the top award in the world for socially responsible design. The Challenge is successful because it satisfies our left brain craving for order and thresholds and our right brain intuition that the focus needs to be on our relationship and understanding of the whole of life.
 As such the program is a philosophy first, an advocacy tool second and a certification program third. Within the larger Living Future Challenge framework that covers the creation of all human artifacts and edifices, the Living Building Challenge focuses on the largest creations of humanity, its buildings. It is in essence a unified tool for transformative thought, allowing us to envision a future that is Socially Just, Culturally Rich and Ecologically Restorative.

Living Building Challenge 3.0

International Living Future Institute

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