Design for sustainability

McDonough, W., Braungart, M., 2013. The Upcycle Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance, North Point Press, New York. 

A good deal of what passes for professional development in schools is a joke. ..radically under-resourced, brief, not sustained, designed for one size fits all , imposed rather than owned, lacking any intellectual coherence, treated as a special add-on event rather than part of a natural process, and trapped in the constraints of the bureaucratic system... 

Briefly describe the importance of sustainable design for buildings and the services within buildings. 

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