“Walk The Talk”
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” - we have heard this a million times!
For more than fifty years it has been the essence of our understanding of the actions required for changing to a more sustainable lifestyle. We seek a model of modern human existence which will preserve the gifts of nature, our ecology, our environment for future generations, giving back what we take away.
Ironically, in recent times we seem to have progressed in exactly the opposite direction: we are producing more, using inefficiently and recycling very little. This is true of architecture as much as in any other realm. Our craze for creating new buildings out of new materials is at its peak. As almost all our building materials are extracted from the ground by brutal methods this means more and more cruelty to planet earth.
