Call it responsibility or accountability. Or simple popular demand. The rarefied world of design is embracing the environment as never before. Top architects are implementing revolutionary methods. Fashion and furniture mainstays are manufacturing products using sustainable materials. And luxury empires are establishing credos on issues their customers are still waking up to. Behind the scenes, trailblazing executives are taking big risks to make it all happen — beautifully.
As the executive director of the Everlands Conservation Initiative, Tilt, 55, oversees the exclusive destination club's $1 million Conservation Prize and tries to preserve the club's spectacular properties in places like Big Sky, Mont., and Devon, England. Before working at Everlands, Tilt was director of conservation at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
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