Winter Garden Magazine March 2015 | Page 42

Sustainability by design by Melissa A. Feher Anato, ASID Today the world we live in us is ever changing, growth in technology and the fast pace of our day-to-day lives has taken us from small and simple to a “more is more” mentality. The changes in our world not only affect us but they take a heavy toll on our environment. We as a society spend countless hours and energy watching our food consumption, monitoring Monsanto and the direct effects that ingesting chemicals have on our bodies but my question is: why are we not monitoring our environments and what is surrounding us. If a fruit or vegetable sprayed with fertilizer can cause can