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As an architect and designer, I am someone who spends time thinking about how we can imagine
a future of abundance for our children. In 1991, at the suggestion of Dr. Michael Braungart, I was
commissioned by the City of Hannover, Germany, to craft sustainable design principles for Expo
2000, The Worlds Fair. The result was The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, which was
ofcially presented by Hannover as a gift to the 1992 Earth Summits World Urban Forum in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
If design is the frst signal of human intention, our intention today can be to love all ten billion people
who will live on our planet by 2050. We can do this. If we imagine and embrace our cities as part of
the same organism as the countryside, the rivers and the oceans, then we can celebrate ourselves,
all species and the natural systems we support and that support us. This is our design assignment.
If we are principled and have positive goals, we can rise to this occasion. It will take us all; it will take
foreverthat is the point.
William McDonough, FAIA, Int. FRIBA