seethis.earth

Read free. “In this book, we present one possible pattern language, of the kind called for in The Timeless Way. This lan­guage is extremely practical. It is a language that we have distilled from our own building and planning ef­forts over the last eight years. You can use it to work with your neighbors, to improve your town and neighbor­hood. You can use it to design a house for yourself, with your family; or to work with other people to de­sign an office or a workshop or a public building like a school. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.”

Read free. Environmental Design Science Primer, by Howard Brown, Robert Cook, and Medard Gabel, undated. From the Foreword: “In order to have a significant effect on vital environmental and social issues, people need to acquire the skills that will allow them to act as planners and participants, rather than as spectators in the defining and solving of problems….”

Read free. Designing Earth Anew Together is a proposal for creating large-scale social and ecological change through collaborative global planning. Jan Hearthstone argues that humanity must move beyond isolated efforts and develop tools for co-designing solutions to today’s crises — including climate change, war, inequality, and environmental degradation.