Updating Our Grandparents Design Legacy

We often hear that we need to fix our environmental problems so that we don't bequeath them to our children and grandchildren. But that's only the future half of the story. We have inherited our grandparents' and parents' development design problems...along with some good concepts.

Now we know more about the interwoven relationship between our behaviors and the global climate system and we can do a better job...and retrofit our communities.

When you only have 10 people per square mile, you don't think about accumulating trash or runoff water. But as populations explode(d) and urban populations are more likely to be 3,000 people per square mile, the design decisions made over the decades come with us and problems are escalated. That's where we are today.

Read more about coping with today's landscaping challenges.