Welcome to the True Sustainability community, a forum in which to share transformative regional and cutting edge projects that redefine the relationship between sites, buildings and their larger environment. We invite you to engage with this community to learn from each other’s successes and challenges, and to reach out to others within the site to form innovative regional partnerships.
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A few years ago, members of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) Advisory Group began discussions on the fact that greening of the built environment was concerned with increasing efficiencies of systems and the use of materials and not larger concerns. It seemed that little effort was invested in a holistic response to the vital issues of our times including – ecological degradation on an unprecedented scale, climate change, loss of systems that provide food and water and peak energy.
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