How can we create infrastructure that sustains a healthy planet? We explore in our latest SlideShare in honor of Earth Day. Tell us what you think. Tweet us @AECOM using #EarthDay2015.

1. Mission: Earth
How can we create infrastructure that
sustains a healthy planet?
Photo: NASA

2. In a time of constrained budgets and competing priorities,
direct investment in pure sustainability measures cannot
be counted on to address environmental challenges.
Through broader, longer-term thinking, we need to capture
the opportunities inherent in every infrastructure
investment to yield benefits on social, economic and
ecological planes.
- Gary Lawrence, chief sustainability officer, AECOM

3. Missed opportunities
Many perspectives shape the built
environment. Too often, each
focuses on its own goals and
methods. This inhibits better
outcomes that could emerge from
broader thinking.

4. Infrastructure can simultaneously
address a variety of social,
economic and ecological
challenges to deliver wider
benefits and value.
Integrated thinking
Light Rail Starter System and Build Outs, Dallas, U.S.A.

5. Think of the potential when we
blend environmental science and
economic understanding, urban
policy and regional planning, high
design and high performance,
gray infrastructure and green
infrastructure, commercial growth
and community cohesion.
Crossing boundaries
Tongzhou Canal Bridge, Beijing, China

6. We believe integrated thinking can
create urban environments that
attract people, promote economic
opportunity, and protect the
natural world.
Thriving cities
Shepherd’s Bush Living Wall, London, U.K.

7. Healthy ecological systems can
reduce the burden on built
infrastructure, and increase our
enjoyment of and appreciation for
the world around us.
A new approach
Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

8. Willingness to look at problems in
new ways builds a series of better
outcomes, and begins to shape a
new paradigm of human and
natural prosperity.
Every project is an opportunity
Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Land Management Plan and CEQA
Sacramento, U.S.A.

9. Architecture, engineering, urban
design and landscape architecture
create a next-generation NBA
arena—and a more active,
walkable and green downtown.
To bring the best ideas together
Sacramento Entertainment and Sports Complex, U.S.A.

10. Nanotechnology and energy-
efficient engineering enable
scientists to conduct climate
research—with minimal
environmental impacts.
Achieve new feats of innovation
Halley VI Research Station, Antarctica

11. Civil engineering and landscape
architecture result in cleaner water
entering the ocean—and greener
neighborhoods for residents and
wildlife.
And create infrastructure for a healthy planet
San Francisco Sewer System Improvement Program, U.S.A.
Sacramento, U.S.A.

12. The choice before us
Built to deliver a better world
Tell us what you think
Tweet us @aecom
using #earthday2015
Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bay Flood Damage Reduction, Houston, U.S.A.