Sustainable is out, Resilient is IN

The word sustainable has seemingly been left behind of late (as W. McDonough says, would you think your marriage was good if you described it as sustainable?). Green is the new buzzword, and is really already so 2007 thanks to greenwashing, and general overuse. In the search for new sound bites, restoration and resilient are a few of the new angles I find interesting.

Resiliency, or the idea of a city, town, country or ecosystem being able to sustain damage and still function, is a test of the new designs we propose, either in an effort to restore local ecological systems, our towns, cities or the economy.

Climate change will dramatically affect everywhere on earth, this is inevitable according to most everyone studying the issues - so the question becomes how will we best prepare for these changes?

In my green zoning quest - i came upon this Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Its fueling my fire to move forward rapidly with rethinking our neighborhood and city planning policies-its time to really consider an altered future in terms of climate, oil availability, and energy use.