2021 Sustainability Foreword and Table of Contents Context: The Future of Environmental Responsibility - M. LeFevre The Changing Governance of All Things - D. Gilmore The 10-Minute Neighborhood - K. Sanders Life Cycle Assessment: A Changing Frame - R. Taylor/D. Kestner Planetary Design: The Profound Importance of Our Embedded Nature - G. Reid Design Will Not Change the World - R. Ventura The Circular Economy: Why Not Us? - R. Spears Shifting Perspectives - D. Condon COVID’s Effect on Sustainability - A. Horning Systems Thinking: Four Business Models to Accelerate Environmental Responsibility - P. Sundharam How Purpose Drives Balance - E. Mitchell-Kozack Collective Action: Lessons Learned - D. Davies Re-educating Ourselves: Crossing Boundaries Farther Afield - L. Sale The Road to 2030: Small Steps, Big Changes - R. Reis/T. Powers


Lois Vitt Sale

FAIA, LEED Fellow, Chief Sustainability Officer, Senior Vice President, Wight & Company

Re-educating Ourselves: Crossing Boundaries Farther Afield

Wight & Company’s sustainability director Lois Vitt Sale urges us to re-educate ourselves in our quest to solve wicked problems.

2020 has been a cliffhanger of a year. While earthquakes haven’t yet appeared on the list of shattering events causing seismic perspective shifts, many of the year’s happenings have called into question the fundamentals on which we rely to produce built environment solutions.

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