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Environmental Systems Design company history timeline

1991

1991—Brenda and Robert Vale published the book Green Architecture: Design for a Sustainable Future, establishing six principles for green architecture: conserving energy, working with climate, minimizing new resources, respect for users, respect for site, and holism.

Founded in 1991, Environmental Design International inc. (EDI) is an MBE/WBE/DBE/WOSB certified professional engineering firm headquartered in Chicago.

1992

1992—Ecological footprint—A measure of the rate at which humans consume resources and generate waste compared to how quickly the planet absorbs human waste and generates new resources.

1992—Energy Star, the focus of which is to minimize building energy and water use to protect the environment, is created by the EPA under the authority of the Clean Air Act.

1993

1993—The United States Green Building Council was founded by Rick Fedrizzi, David Gottfried, and Mike Italiano.

1996

1996—Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan presented a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design.

1998

1998—The Green Building Challenge was launched, in which representatives from 14 nations met to create an international assessment tool that takes into account regional and national environmental, economic, and social equity conditions.

2000

2000—Anthropocene—The epoch in which human influence on the Earth’s ecosystems has become significant, rivaling the influence of natural Earth processes.

2001

Drew, P. (2001). Touch this earth lightly: Glenn Murcutt in his own words.

2002

2002—David W. Orr published the book The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention, arguing for an ecological design revolution that changes how humans provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and deal with waste.

2003

An alternative direction in the expressive demonstration of mechanical viscera and circuitry, as the vital effective organs of environmental systems, is evident in the work of Spanish architect Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation that he founded in Madrid in 2003.

2004

Retrieved from http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/project.php?idcat=3&idsubcat=71&id%20proj=148.Quick, T. (2004). American transcendentalism and deep ecology in the history of ideas.

2006

He presented Living Building Challenge version 1.0 to the Cascadia Green Building Council in August 2006, and three months later, it was formally introduced to the public.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields.Turner, F. (2006). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism.

2008

New York: Vintage.Žižek, S. (2008). Censorship today: violence, or ecology as a new opium for the masses.

2009

The editors defined as neoplasmatic projects that are partly designed objects and partly living material, blurring the lines between the natural and the artificial (Cruz, 2009). For the authors, neoplasmatic design implies semiliving entities that require completely new definitions.

Callicott, J., & Froderman, R. (2009). Deep ecology from Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy.

2010

Anker, P. (2010). From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A history of ecological design.

Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things.

2011

Kwa, C. (2011). Styles of knowing.

2014

Dezeen (November 3). Retrieved from https://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/03/new-energy-landscapes-sean-lally-istanbul-design-biennial-2014/.

Ndubisi, F. (2014). The ecological design and planning reader.

2015

McKnight, J. (2015). Andrés Jaque’s giant water purifier unveiled in MoMA PS1 courtyard.

Tabas, B. (2015). Dark places: Ecology, place, and the metaphysics of horror fiction.

2016

Cricket Shelter: Modular Edible Insect Farm by Terreform One (Mitchell Joachim, PI), built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, 2016.

2017

Sabin won the MoMA PS1’s Young Architecture Program competition in 2017 with plans for a shelter made of robotically knitted textile solar panels.

Retrieved from http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/AppalFor/Readings/240%20-%20Reading%20-%20Deep%20Ecology.pdf.Calvillo, N. (2017). In the air.

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