The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.