Designer John Todd Honored. Posted by Kristin Underwood, Treehugger.com, August 19, 2008. "We've profiled natural-resources design maven Dr. John Todd before, but now he's been recognized by a much higher authority… Dr. Todd is the first recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. Not to mention, the award comes with prestige, but also a $100,000 cash prize to sweeten the deal… So what was the topic of study that earned such as serious prize? Well, Dr. Todd's… Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia. Appalachia has been decimated by strip-mining for coal (which provides 50% of the electricity in the U.S.), but Dr. Todd provides [a proposal for remediation and creation of a new, sustainable Appalachian economy]… How do you redesign a community? Well, [according to Todd,] it involves four stages: healing… sequestration and the creation of a working landscape; creating a renewable energy future; and institutions and a shared ownership culture… Winners… are chosen [based on] their ability to think outside the box, come up with a solution that makes old systems obsolete, and improves both human well-being and ecosystem health… Dr. Todd is also the inventor of the Eco-Machine, received three merit awards from the EPA and was named one of the greatest inventors of the 20th Century. [He] runs John Todd Ecological Design which uses nature to design solutions [for] wastewater and storm water treatment."
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