Abstract
T he long-term goal of ecological design, in Aldo Leopold’s words, is to go “from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.” Drawing from Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan (1996) and William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002), the basic principles of ecological design are these:
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Orr, D.W. (2011). The Design Revolution: Notes for Practitioners (2006). In: Hope is an Imperative. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-017-0_21
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