Is it possible to design buildings so well and so carefully that they do not cast a long ecological shadow over the future that our students will inherit? We now know that such things are possible—that buildings can be designed to give more than they take.
How do we redeploy vacant land in the city, put it back into productive use? Given the realities of decades of population decline in Cleveland's urban core, what are the best tracts of land available for agriculture? An urban agricultural economy is one possibility of drawing investment and population back into the city.
This site is inspired by the memory of Richard Shatten, a former board member of EcoCity Cleveland,
who pushed Northeast Ohio to think strategically about regionalism and sustainability.
A service of the GreenCityBlueLake Institute at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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