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10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION SIM VAN DER RYN STUART COWA N ecological desig n with a new introduction by the authors VAN DER RYN • COWAN ecological d e sign ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Advance praise for Ecological Design: Tenth Anniversary Edition: “The publication of Ecological Design was a seminal moment for the green building movement, and the book remains one of our most valuable and relevant texts today. Sim Van der Ryn is one of the fathers of sustainable design, but his work transcends time; together with Stuart Cowan, he has written a work that will inspire and inform us for years to come.” —S. Richard Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council “A benchmark pioneering work that remains vitally relevant today after a decade of influencing the ecodesign community, and now with new ideas and a critical assess- ment of the sustainability status quo in the introduction.” —Dr. Ken Yeang, Architect and Planner, Llewleyn Davies Yeang, UK. Praise for the original edition: “[Ecological Design] is a ground-breaking book that will change the way we think about buildings, agriculture, industrial processes, and our management of resources and wastes.” —Environmental Building News “Visionary Van der Ryn and Cowan delight in showing us each detail of transform- ing both consciousness and substance from ‘dumb design’ (environmentally wasteful) to ecological design.” —San Francisco Chronicle SIM VAN DER RYN is the founder of the Eco-Design Collaborative, the non-profit Ecologic Design Institute, and the Center for Regenerative Design at the College of Marin. He has served as California State Architect, founded the University of California Berkeley’s ecological design program, and has been a professor of architecture there for thirty-five years. His seven books include his recent publication Design For Life. STUART COWAN is a General Partner of Autopoiesis LLC, which offers design, development, and finance services internationally for large-scale sustainability proj- ects. He was a Transaction Manager at Portland Family of Funds, a community invest- ment bank committed to green real estate projects and sustainable businesses. He previously served as Research Director at Ecotrust. Washington • Covelo • London www.islandpress.org All Island Press books are printed on recycled, acid-free paper. About Island Press Island Press is the only nonprofit organization in the United States whose prin- cipal purpose is the publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management. We provide solutions-oriented information to profes- sionals, public officials, business and community leaders, and concerned citi- zens who are shaping responses to environmental problems. 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Ecological Design Tenth Anniversary Edition [...]... and Micah Van der Ryn Stuart Cowan Ecological Design Tenth Anniversary Edition A Ten-Year Retrospective This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Ecological Design Our goal in writing the book was stated in the preface: “In order to successfully integrate ecology and design, we must mirror nature’s deep interconnections in our own epistemology of design. ” We sought to understand the... integrating itself with living processes.” Ecological design is an integrative, ecologically responsible design discipline It helps connect scattered efforts in green architecture, sustainable agriculture, ecological engineering, and other fields Ecological design is both a profoundly hopeful vision and a pragmatic tool By placing ecology in the foreground of design, it provides specific ways of minimizing... three-dimensional ecological connectivity He provides a masterful overview of this work in his new book Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design During the last ten years, product design and industrial design have embraced the concept of cradle-to-cradle design As William McDonough and Michael Braungart demonstrate in their landmark 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, it is possible to design. .. Preface ecology and design, we must mirror nature’s deep interconnections in our own epistemology of design We are still trapped in worn-out mechanical metaphors It is time to stop designing in the image of the machine and start designing in a way that honors the complexity and diversity of life itself This is a book about ecological design, which can be defined as “any form of design that minimizes... his tenure with the Forest Service, wrote a visionary book called EcoregionBased Design for Sustainability that systematically applied ecological design at the ecoregional scale Bailey echoed one of our key themes, “Characteristically, conventional design tends to work at one scale at a time Ecological design integrates design across multiples levels of scale, reflecting the influence of larger scales... that has the preservation and restoration of the ecological commons at its core The first part of the book, “Bringing Design to Life,” presents an overview of ecological design The first chapter discusses the connection between sustainability and design The second chapter is a selfcontained statement of the underlying principles and philosophy of ecological design, concluding with a short history of the... capital greatly limits the possibility of ecological 12 A Ten-Year Retrospective design approaches reaching sufficient scale within the brief transitional generation remaining to us As the chapter Ecological Accounting Informs Design argues, prices do not reflect true social and ecological costs, creating a “sustainability gap” (price differential) for ecological design innovations However, during the... compared to the diversely cropped small farm he visits for a week In Ecological Design, we did not make the broader evolutionary and spiritual case for the nascent field of ecological design, and its larger purpose and effect Sim’s latest book, Design for Life, presents that case, which includes this summary: “The heart of ecological design is not efficiency or sustainability It is the embodiment of... for some of the most interesting projects and organizations in the field of ecological design The bibliography describes books that have been critical to our thinking and to the development of ecological design Our discussions are, of necessity, incomplete There is an extraordinary proliferation of excellent work in ecological design, and it would take dozens of volumes to treat it fully Instead of striving... of the field “Nature’s Geometry,” the third chapter, suggests that we look for design principles that explicitly link different levels of scale from the molecular to the planetary The book’s second part, “The Ecological Design Process,” devotes chapters to five design principles that we think are fundamental to ecological design These principles are intended as a starting point, an inspiration to creativity . of these foundations. Ecological Design Tenth Anniversary Edition