I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be….

Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for mill….

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good..

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and puri….

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions..

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry foreve….

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and ….

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in orde….

The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself..

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor ….

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point..

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage..

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want t….

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power..

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vis….

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those….

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, dis….

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence..

Honor commerce as the engine of change..

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live..

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'.