In <em>Designed for the Future</em>, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam—show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead.<br><br>Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including:<br><br>• Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus<br>• Curator Barry Bergdoll<br>• Educator and author Alan Berger<br>• Environmentalist and author Lester Brown<br>• Architect Rick Cook<br>• Urban Planner Paul Farmer<br>• Critic Christopher Hume<br>• Architect Bjarke Ingels<br>• Landscape designer Mia Lehrer<br>• Architect Rob Rogers<br>• Critic Inga Saffron<br>• Artist Janet Echelman