What does sustainability mean to your organization? Why did you decide to do sustainability work? How does your organization address what is called the triple bottom line of sustainability--integrating environmental, social, and economic sustainability? What are examples of some of your projects based on sustainability principles?

1. PERSPECTIVES
on sustainability
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2. Kira Gould
William McDonough + Partners
AIA Committee on the Environment
Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design
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3. Who is sustainability for?
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4. UN Brundtland Report
Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.
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5. AIA Committee on the Environment
Sustainability envisions the enduring prosperity
of all living things.
Sustainable design seeks to create
communities, buildings, and products
that contribute to this vision.
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6. Design is the first signal
of human intention.
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7. What is our design intent?
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9. Our design intent is a delightfully diverse, safe,
healthy and just world—with clean air, water,
soil, and power—economically, equitably,
ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.
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10. emulate natural systems
utilize renewable energy flows
celebrate diversity
anticipate evolution
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13. Listening How do we innovate?
What is sustainability? How do we measure progress?
What is sustainable design? How do we work together?
What is community? How do we learn?
How do we live on the land? What stories do we tell?
What are health and well‐being? How do we love more?
What are comfort and delight? Finding home
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Della Huff

16. Sustainability is life.
Sustainable design is
design for life.
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17. Brandy Brooks
Community Design Resource Center
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18. CDRC-Boston provides services and resources that assist communities to
envision, advocate for, and implement high quality design solutions and
ensure equal access to healthy, sustainable built environments.
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT
SOCIETY
ECONOMY
SOCIETY ECONOMY

19. What does it mean to be sustainable?

20. Brandy H. M. Brooks, Assoc. AIA, NOMA
Executive Director
617-585-0198
info@cdrc-boston.org
www.cdrc-boston.org

21. Valerie Fletcher
Adaptive Environments
Institute for Human Centered Design
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22. An international educational nonprofit
organization dedicated to enhancing the
experiences of people of all ages and
abilities through excellence in design.
www.AdaptiveEnvironments.org
www.HumanCenteredDesign.org
Name change on 30th anniversary in 2008…
Institute for Human Centered Design

23. Design is powerful and profoundly
influences our daily lives and our sense of
confidence, comfort, and control.
Two core ideas...
Variation in ability is ordinary, not special,
and affects most of us for some part of our
lives.
Adaptive Environments

25. Marina Spitkovskaya
Alternatives for Community and
Environment
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26. Racial Biases to Exposure from Cumulative Hazards
Mean Total Cumulative Points
100.0 87.7
per Square Mile
80.0
54.9
60.0
40.0
15.7
20.0
4.3
0.0
Less than 5% 5 to 14.99% 15 to 24.99% 25% and
Greater
Percent of Population that is Non-White

27. Class Biases to Exposure from Cumulative Hazards
40.0 35.3
Mean Total Cumulative
Points per Square Mile
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0 14.3
15.0 10.3 8.5
10.0
5.0
0.0
$0 to 39,524 $39,525 to $52,701 to $65,876 and
52,700 65,875 Higher
Median Household Income

30. Galen Nelson
Boston Redevelopment Authority
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31. Green Collar Job Map

33. Eco Industrial
Parks

35. Contact Information:
Galen Nelson
Green Tech Business Manager
617.918.4447
galen.nelson.BRA@cityofboston.gov

36. PERSPECTIVES
on sustainability
April 30, 2008

37. What are the roles of race
and class?
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38. How does community figure
in? Geographical? Cultural?
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39. How do we work together?
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40. How do we tell the stories?
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41. PERSPECTIVES
on sustainability
April 30, 2008
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