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Sustainable ideas crystallize through an immensity of wasted efforts. ...Good ideas are sometimes resurrected from fossils of past evolutions.

— Bjarke Ingels Yes is More (2010)

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Ideas migrate, structures grow and concepts develop in a form of architectural evolution.

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We need a new manifesto for hedonistic sustainability!

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What if we didn't have to adapt our lifestyle to sustainability, but adjusted our sustainable designs to the way we want to live? Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

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It is through improvisation and adaptation to unanticipated obstacles that we make our biggest breakthroughs.

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Wind power: only 0.6% [of world energy production] and you have a very large untapped potential... Mostly the closer you get to the poles, the more wind power potential, especially offshore.

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