The Chicken Came First: A primer for renewing and sustaining our communities

Thirteen years before the Eco-City Movement was established and five years before the Rocky Mountain Institute began, in 1977 Mr. Asti created the first private foundation in the United States dedicated to the issue of educating individuals and communities about the development of communications-based, post industrial, sustainable communities. In1980, thirteen years before the founding of the U.S. Green Building Council and while Alvin and Heidi Toffler were writing about the Third Wave, Asti designed "Prodigy" the first "Third Wave City of the Future," in history, the first attempt at defining a 21st Century community based on a post industrial, sustainable economy. recently addressed the American Institute of Architects during an annual conference in Miami, Florida, advocating the importance of social activism in creating our world of the future. Mr. Asti is the founder and owner of William Henry Asti, AIA in Little Rock, Arkansas. The scope of Mr. Asti's design, planning and consulting has spanned three decades and four continents. He has worked in twelve States and the District of Columbia, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Korea, Pakistan, Nigeria and Poland. His domestic work has included universities, schools, prisons, hospitals, casinos, residential and corporate headquarters. A student and friend of the internationally renowned Architect, E. Fay Jones, the foremost disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mr. Asti has conceived his own vision of a post-industrial future.