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The timeline of climate change is long, but our time to act is short. Even the best-intentioned sustainable building rating systems barely make a dent in reducing the emissions that are leading to an increasingly warmer, less-predictable planet. Moreover, humans are ill-equipped for the long-term and collective thinking required for meaningful climate change action.
In his address to the Congress, author of Sustainable Urbanism Doug Farr examines the powerful cultural forces of recent history that have successful influenced societies’ behaviors for the better and expands on the themes from his forthcoming book, Sustainable Nation—lay ing out a path forward for a sustainable nation in four generations.
The timeline of climate change is long, but our time to act is short. Even the best-intentioned sustainable building rating systems barely make a dent in reducing the emissions that are leading to an increasingly warmer, less-predictable planet. Moreover, humans are ill-equipped for the long-term and collective thinking required for meaningful climate change action.
In his address to the Congress, author of Sustainable Urbanism Doug Farr examines the powerful cultural forces of recent history that have successful influenced societies’ behaviors for the better and expands on the themes from his forthcoming book, Sustainable Nation—lay ing out a path forward for a sustainable nation in four generations.
