Preface / Kristin Feireiss -- Foreword / Andreas Ludwig, Karl Sevelda -- Riders on the storm: into this house we're born and into this world we're thrown / Lukas Feireiss -- Cities: at the heart of our environmental future / Saskia Sassen -- Efficiency in the everyday : Rethinking architecture: creating climate solutions that work for urban centres and low-income communities / Matt Petersen -- Action, action, action / Klaus T©œpfer in conversation with Friedrich von Borries -- Projects : Cape Schanck House / Paul Morgan Architects ; OKO House / Youmeheshe Architects ; H16 / Werner Sobek ; Lufthansa Aviation Center / Ingenhoven Architekten ; Palestra Building / SMC Alsop ; CH2 Melbourne City Council House / DesignInc Melbourne ; Parliament Hill School / Haverstock Associates LLP ; Marie Curie High School / Gr©ơntuch Ernst Architekten ; 1% Solution / Public Architecture ; Ecological Budget UK / World Wildlife Fund UK ; Valley View University / Chair for Fundamentals of Ecological Planning and Building ; SPREE2011 / Ralf Steeg & LURI.watersystems.GmbH ; Metro Cable San Augustin / Urban-Think Tank ; Ecoboulevard / Ecosistema Urbano -- Aesthetics of performance : the aesthetics of sustainability / Leon van Schaik -- Shake the future / Kristin Feireiss in conversation with Yung Ho Chang -- Projects : S-House GrAT / Centre for Appropriate Technology ; METI School / Anna Herringer, Eike Roswag ; Ali Apple Elementary School / Limited Design ; Sidwell Friends Middle School / Kieran Timberlake Associates ; DPI Queenscliff Centre / Lyons Architects ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Rafael Vinoly Architects ; SIEEB / Mario Cucinella Architects ; Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park / Steven Holl Architects ; Federal Environmental Agency / Sauerbruch Hutton Architects -- San Francisco Federal Building / Morphosis ; INVERSAbrane KOL/MAC LCC ; New Monte Rosa-Hut / Studio Monte Rosa -- Didatactics of engagement : Toward a twenty-first century renaissance: education, design, and a hopeful human prospect / William McDonough -- Green design / Ken Yeang -- Projects : 20K $ House / Rural Studio ; Kikoo Water Project / Engineers Without Borders ; Living Tebogo / BASEhabitat ; Schulbausteine f©ơr Gando e.V / Di©♭b©♭do Francis K©♭r©♭ ; 121 Ethiopia / Hekla Foundation ; Open architecture network / Architecture for Humanity ; Manuel Mart©Ưnez Calder©đn Primary School / EMBT - Enric Miralles, Benedetta Taglibue ; United Bottle / INSTANT Architects ; Tsunami Safe(r) House / SENSEable City Laboratory ; Alluvial Sponge Comb / Anderson Anderson Architecture ; Solar Updraft Tower / Schlaich Bergermann Solar ; Hawaii Gateway Energy Centre / Ferraro Choi and Associates -- Biographies.