Landscape Ecology and Green Design

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Landscape Ecology and Green Design
Justin Podur , Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University For IIDEX/NEOCON Design Green
Panel September 25, 2008
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The built environment hosts natural processes
http//www.buildinggreen.com/hpb/overview.cfm?proj
ectId18
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Ecology
The study of the relations of organisms to their
environment, including other organisms
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Landscape Ecology
A sub-discipline of ecology and geography that
addresses how spatial variation in the landscape
affects ecological processes
http//www.riversides.org/websiteimages/toronto_bi
rds_eye_view.jpg
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http//www.tqnyc.org/NYC040749/bluebuttfly.jpg
http//morningnoonandnight.wordpress.com/2007/08/1
4/peanut-allergy-and-lupin-flour/
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Two landscape-ecologist-eye views
http//www.riversides.org/websiteimages/toronto_bi
rds_eye_view.jpg
http//foodandretail.blogspot.com/2007/10/eco-tren
d-ii-measuring-cost-of-climate.html
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Barry Commoner's Four Rules of Ecology
1. Everything is connected to everything else 2.
Everything must go somewhere 3. Nature knows
best 4. There is no such thing as a free lunch
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You can't run a linear system on a finite planet
indefinitely Anne Leonard, storyofstuff.com
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McDonough Braungart design closed loops
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Jenkins's humanure handbook
Todd's living machine
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The Lewis Center Building, Oberlin College, Ohio
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It's not all consensus and good ideas...
The political urgency with which the US
government and for that matter governments
elsewhere  have come to the rescue of the
financial system from getting worse exposes their
double standards... ...the one trillion bailout
package that George Bush is promising could have
wiped out the last traces of poverty, hunger,
malnutrition and squalor from the face of the
Earth. -Devinder Sharma, Indian agriculture
activist