Sustainability in Boston

I was hired as a researcher and graphic designer to create a booklet digesting the various and multiple aspects of sustainability as relevant to the Boston metropolitan area. The primary directive of the project was to cut past the bullsh*t and attempt to get a true snapshot of where we were in terms of indicators, initiatives and projections of sustainability.

Fluidly moving between appropriate scales and mediums of research, I divided the issue of sustainability into seven distinct parts: climate change, land use, water, transportation, buildings, energy, and people. For each of these topic areas, I looked at published reports, GIS data, and policy programs to create new maps and graphics that revealed facts about the current state of sustainability in Boston.

Summer 2009 research project, supervised by Andrew Scott.