• Stephen R. Kellert, a retired Yale professor, is arguing that our built environment misses an important point if does not connect people with their natural environment, no matter how eco-friendly the designs may be.
• Reducing carbon footprint is necessary in design, but hitting the best LEED or EnergyStar standards does not solve what Kellert says is a problem: humans cut off from nature by the buildings we erect to live and work in.
• He advocates for what he calls biophilic design – an attempt to "bridge the widening gap between humans and nature itself.”

From the article:

Stephen R. Kellert, professor emeritus, Yale University, views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life. ...