A Safe and Sustainable World
Subtitle: The Promise Of Ecological Design
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: March 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781559637787
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Nature; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nature/Ecology; Ocean Arks International; Architecture / Planning; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Ecology; Ecological engineering; Environmental Protection; Human Ecology; New Alchemy Institute
First sentence: How to pinpoint the beginnings of an idea, to say with certainty what started us on our search for our "instructions"?
Description: "In the late sixties, a pioneering group founded a small nonprofit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. They wanted to build a safer and more sustainable world. In the ensuing years, along with scientists, agriculturists, and a host of enthusiastic amateurs and friends, the group set out to develop innovative ways to meet the basic human needs of food, shelter, and energy. A Safe and Sustainable World is the story of that journey, as it was and as it continues to be."--Jacket.