Rebuilding Earth

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"This book extends current ideas about green building to incorporate a much richer and deeper connection to earth systems, wild habitats, and human behavior. Rebuilding Earth is an ambitious book that carries a reminder that our remarkable human resilience and intelligence 'are strengths to be leveraged' in reimagining and remaking a better world."
—Foreword Reviews

"Rebuilding Earth is a splendidly idiosyncratic compendium of facts; inspiring stories about emerging possibilities; good advice about how to use smart science; and goodwill to make human activity and the natural environment enriching to each other. Teresa Coady is at her best when she is thinking like an architect, explaining how we can design, build, and operate buildings so as to improve lives while harnessing natural materials and processes in ways that are sustainable in material, human, and social terms. The heart of this fact-laden and eminently readable book lies in designing buildings and communities that can deliver happier lives for current and future inhabitants, supported by an immense respect for the complexity of the natural environment."
—JOHN HELLIWELL, DPhil, coeditor of the World Happiness Report and professor emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

"Teresa Coady offers a rigorous analysis of why a systems- and nature-based, inclusive way of
developing for the lives and livelihoods of all on this vulnerable planet is not a choice but a necessity.
This book is a call to action for a comprehensive, step-by-step rebuilding of our future and
our planet.”
—HENK OVINK, special envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and
Sherpa to the UN/WB High Level Panel on Water

"Teresa Coady offers a way forward—a means to reimagine the relationship between place, nature, and the physical spaces we construct and inhabit for most of the hours of our lives. Her goal is not to deny or reinvent the architectural past, but to implement the essential elements of what makes for greatness in any age. She asks fundamental questions. ‘What kind of world do we want to inhabit and bequeath? What landscape of the imagination do we want to erect around the lives of our children, knowing full well that the shape of these structures will both hone their memories and inspire their aspirations?’ Rebuilding Earth is a road map of hope."
—WADE DAVIS, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, and professor of Anthropology, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia

 "If our civilization is to continue and flourish, we need to find ways to align human urban systems with ecological planetary systems. Coady’s twelve principles of Conscious Construction outline how urban and building design can begin to address the demands for resilient and vibrant communities using both old and new methods and technologies. Rebuilding Earth  offers a valuable message that needs to be adopted widely."
—MARK GORGOLEWSKI PhD, MSc, Dip ARC, BSc, LEED AP, professor and chair, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University Rebuild_

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