The Dilemma of Developing Architectural Minds Aiming for Sustainability

We do so much to prepare our children for the future, but are we doing enough to prepare the future for our children?To do so we must seek sustainability.Sustainability is a new way of thinking about an age-old concern: ensuring that our children and grandchildren inherit a tomorrow that is at least as good as today, preferably better.We want to make sure that the way we live our lives is sustainable that can continue and keep improving for long time.And since buildings produce half of all greenhouse gases and account for one-sixth of the world's freshwater withdrawals, one-quarter of its wood harvest and two fifths of its material and energy flows.By several estimates, we will double the size of the built environment over the next twenty to forty years.Therefore, there is a critical and immediate need to shift thinking on how the built environment is designed.To reduce environmental impact, protect public health and improve environmental equity and justice, we must change principles for building practice.Designers in general and architects in particular should play a high-profile leadership role in this transformation.