Reinventing Sustainability
Guttmann-Bond, Erika
There have been many books written about what we can learn from the failures of the past, but I want to take a more optimistic view, focussing on what we have to learn from past successes. This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define as ¿intermediate¿, which means that they are often simple,...