How to engineer our environment

Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin (RWDI) of Guelph knows sustainable design will help us survive and prosper in world that is built for change.

Remember the hippies on their communes back in the 1970s? Preaching that the only way to preserve the earth was to move back to simpler times: grow our own food, spin our cloth, and build what we needed. Progress was the enemy, both spiritually and in terms the planet. That didn’t really catch on.

Turns out that technology and innovation might very well be the answer – or at least the answer to ...