Coordinating regional transportation, economic development, and ecological preservation efforts across several metropolitan areas to accommodate future growth and prosperity.

Investigating innovative ways to reduce the effects of climate change through biosequestration and geoengineering projects.

Resources and tools designed to assist communities as they plan for sustainable growth.

Developing techniques to ensure sufficient access to clean, safe water across political and geographical boundaries.

Integrating sensitivity of a natually-defined geographic region into planning, design and policy.

Managing growth through future infrastructure placement, as well as addressing existing aging or inadequate systems.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through careful planning and design.

Documenting user perceptions and usage of various modes of transport in an attempt to improve conditions and support alternative transportation options.

Better linking the relationship between types of development and modes of transport connecting them.

Maximizing the benefits and resources from natural systems.

Combining sustainable techniques and technologies with educational outreach to design sites which improve ecosystem services.

Documenting the context-sensitive, cultural characteristics of a region that often developed in response to climate and land conditions.

Protecting or repairing ecological diversity and productivity, particularly after conlict or disturbance.

Addressing the inadequacies often found in temporary or informal housing developments, such as access to sanitation, clean water, or equitable living conditions.

Protecting biodiversity and sufficient supply of raw materials for future generations through conservation and preservation.

Promoting development in appropriate areas, following analysis of access to transit and services, environmental sensitivity.

Identifying safe and viable ways to repurpose former industrial sites.

Returning manipulated landscapes to a more natural state in order to reclaim some of its productivity.

Creating an online inventory of historic places to guide long-range planning efforts.

Reducing harmful VOC emissions in the built environment to improve productivity and occupant health.

Designing self-contained building systems for space exploration, as well as integrating these sustainable techniques into land-based buildings.

Optimizing building energy usage through innovative design.

Performing Life-Cycle Assessments and investigating the validity of various "green" product rating systems.

Using design to fully utilize passive lighting and heating in the built environment.

Pairing cultural significance and materials science research to preserve and restore the built environment.

Integrating building design and energy systems.

Investigating ways to align renewable energy production with usage.

Creating a cerfitication system for sites much like LEED for buildings, that incorporates ecology, accessibility, and suitability.

Maximizing energy generation from renewable sources.

Implementing community-based technology initiatives aimed at linking community development efforts with online public education and community problem-solving tools.

Identifying and finding solutions for underlying institutional frameworks that maintain the unequal distribution of resources and opportunity between nations.

Finding viable outcomes to disagreements between various stakeholders.

Increasing productivity and efficiency, while considering equity and the environment.

Creating opportunities to combine service and education in community projects.

Gathering citizen input to develop and influence policies and programs that affect their lives.

Addressing the need for equitable and diverse housing options throughout urban regions.

Guiding public policy toward stewardship of the natural world through education and activism.

Researching how natural systems and communities of plants and animals interact with and are affected by the built environment.

Shifting the generation of power and water from centralized plants to individual units, increasing security and efficiency.

Understanding the political motives behind policies and programs.

Designing the built environment to encourage healthful activities, and reduce the sources of harmful behaviors.

Defining the relationship between the built environment and cultural perceptions.

Using and modifying legal frameworks to better develop cities to protect the health, safety and welfare of citizens

Using planning and design to increase comfort in the outdoor built environment.