Is Sustainable Design Sustainable?

摘要

Since it's been only eight years since the LEED~® pilot program was first rolled out, perhaps it's too early to worry about the future of sustainable design. However, the underpinning rationale of the "sustainability" movement-that ever-increasing numbers of people will compete for scarcer resources on the globe-may be endangered. For at just the time that it seems to some that we have reached the limits of what the earth can provide, the earth may be about to be asked to provide less.