Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path.

Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields, Ecological Design provides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse

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為生態設計營造社（Eco－Design Collaborative）、非營利的生態設計學院、以及馬林社區大學（College of Marin）再生設計中心（Center for Regenerative Design）的創辦人；曾擔任加州州政府總建築師，創辦加州大學柏克萊分校的生態設計課程，並在柏克萊擔任建築系教授三十五年。出版七本著作，近著為《為生命設計》（Design for Life）。

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為自生事務所（Autopoiesis LLC）的合夥人，該事務所提供大型永續計畫的設計、開發與融資服務。他曾擔任波特蘭家庭基金（Portland Family of Funds）交易經理，該基金為社區投資銀行，投身於綠土地開發計畫及永續性企業。先前曾擔任生態信託的研究主任。