WANTED: Visionary Projects to Realign Trump Policy

Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Kelly Shannon, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

Air quality, Architect’s role, Climate change, CO2 emissions, Contamination, Developing policies, Ecological footprint, Ecology, Economics, Energy, Energy consumption, Environment, Environmental degradation, Essay, Food, Global Awareness, Global food crisis, Global warming, Greenhouse emissions, Labor, Lack of Urban Health, Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Planetary urbanizations, Political implications, Politics, Pollution, Resources, Social environment, Sustainability, Urban Paradigms, Urban Policy, Urban political ecology, Urbanism, USA, Water

Previously published in Landezine -- https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/

The Trump administration, in its refusal to recognize climate change as an eminent threat to the planet, is forging a full-fledged assault on the environment. Ecological policies, decades-in-the-making and their respective regulating agencies, are at risk of vanishing.