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Ecological Design

Precepts of Ecological Design

Adapted from From Eco-cities to Living Machines, by John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd.

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In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable world could be created. Read more

"...it is a tribute to Nancy Jack Todd to compare her "A Safe and Sustainable World" to Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us."
--Mary Otis Stevens, AIA, The Christian Science Monitor. Read more

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Annals of Earth seeks, through written communication, to foster the emergence of a lasting planetary culture. It is published three times a year by Ocean Arks International and edited by Nancy Jack Todd. Read more

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