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Human welfare depends on using the Earth's physical resources,
material cycles, and biological processes, but current human techniques,
understanding, decision-making, and perceptions of need are blind to
their destructive effects on these essential functions of the Earth. The
reverse is also a problem: current attempts to protect the Earth are often
blind to how they influence human welfare.
Consider each building or product as a double intervention—in the
Earth's cycles and processes, and simultaneously in the human culture
of needs and techniques. Make use of available understanding,
innovative and traditional, natural and social, to gauge the proper
balance of human and non-human effects for each intervention.
Remember that present culture builds from work of the past, and future
culture will have to build from what the present provides. The ethic of
Sustainable Design is not only that future existence should be possible,
but that it should exhibit justice and beauty for humans and for the rest of
nature.

Text: Rob Knapp


* Money (Amount needed: ????)
* Volunteers (Number needed: ????)
* Buildings (Number needed: 5 small or 2 large??) 
* Trees (1 park or 3 trees??