We know that the linear way we build now – where materials make a one-way trip from the earth to landfill – is dangerously unsustainable. It assumes too many infinites: Infinite raw materials; infinite space for waste; and infinite capacity of the biosphere to absorb the greenhouse gases that the...

By now, many people in construction are used to thinking about cutting CO2 emissions. But the industry’s impact on nature – the planet’s and our life-support system – has been largely overlooked. That is until this year when, in February, it became mandatory for developers in England to deliver a...