Pretty little house with snazzy red trim! Simple planting in the parkway - a New Zealand Tea Tree hiding behind a Fountain Grass (Pennisetum "Cassian"?) and flanked on the right by a Mexican Sage. Nice.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
What does it mean to you?
I live and love sustainable design. That's why I started my company, Weeds, a few years ago.
I can easily do unsustainable design (per a client's command) but most of the time, my client either gets it or can be convinced.
Sustainability is an evolving ideal, not a fixed ideology, and every day we learn that living, working and designing with sustainability as a guide makes perfect sense.
Sustainable design is about relationships: our relationship with our environment (inside and outside) and with the people around us, including a rich, reciprocal, sustainable relationship between the designer (me!) and the client (you?).
Sustainability, ulitmately, is about survival of our planet and its people (which, obviously, includes ourselves and our family, friends, neighbors, as well as our plants and animals!).
Sustainability is certainly about respect and gratitude, but it can also be about attitude, aesthetics and aspiration. Sustainability doesn't have to be boring, expensive, or holier-than-thou.
Sustainability is a welcome paradigm shift for how to live in the twenty-first century.
One day soon I think we'll look back and wonder what took us so long. We'll wonder how and why we let ourselves forget how to live, work and grow sustainably. Til then, I'll do my part when I can.
-Nancy
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