Principles of Ecological Design

Ecological design proposes a marriage of nature and technology, using ecology as the basis for design. The strategies of conservation, regeneration, and stewardship can be applied at all levels of scale to produce revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, communities, cities and applied technologies. The diagram below illustrates the realtionship between the 5 Principles of Ecological Design. Rolling your cursor over the Principles will reveal a definition and clicking on a Principle will take you to a page with more information about it.

These principles of Ecological Design were introduced in a book by Sim Van der Ryn & Stuart Cowan entitled simply: Ecological Design. For more information about the book, visit this link...