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Green The Earthos Lens
Bioregional Urbanist Design Principles Toward Resource Self-sufficiency – One Region at a Time
in continuous change at an accelerating by Philip Norton Loheed
denigrate the survival skills and spiritual
and spread to contaminate every living and communications systems inform us process to encourage changes away from over-consumption of resources back to
around the world believe we must learn new ways to balance our demands with reBut life has taught me that sustainability
ten installments describing Bioregional
This is the first of ten installments describing Bioregional Design principles, which we hope will generate discussion and creative thought.
compatible with our regenerated and
Earth very broadly through travel and
and continued to the present as principal
Over-consumption, poisoning, and waste of resources must stop. This is a metabolic imperative that drives the logic and intent of Bioregional Urbanism. Systems analysis, systematic teamwork, and iterative evaluation drive its detailed methodology.
living in its resource base…
of living systems for humans has only one
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