Is Sustainability Coming To A Neighborhood Near You?

"There is so much effort that goes into designing and building this one small thing, this single green building," he says. "The same amount of effort goes into planning two square miles of regular neighborhood, and that will serve us for the next 200 years. [The focus on individual buildings] just doesn’t make any sense."

By Charles Shaw

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