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The Life-Giving Thing - Stephen Jenkinson - Excerpt from GriefWalker

http://orphanwisdom.com/the-life-giving-thing/

Andre Ermolaev

A Will for the Woods - Official Trailer

"What if our "last act" could be a gift to the planet — a force for regeneration? Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth."

J.B. MacKinnon - Rewilding

Visioning a Sustainable World

Dana Meadows, Down to Earth 1994

Luc Schuiten, Vegetal City

Luc Schuiten, Lotus City

Vöcklabruck, Austria

Designed by Westpol Landscape Architects, the deck is carved out from the pond’s floor, giving visitors a new relationship with the body of water.

Read more: Westpol's Sunken Observation Deck Brings Visitors Chest-Deep in an Austrian Pond Without Getting Wet | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Bike-up coffee bar, Zurich.

The Velokafi stand was designed to include a tabletop, a place to dock your bike, and side rails to rest your feet as you perch.

The infatuation with technomagic in our visions of the future city has paradoxically produced places with no magic, no power to enchant the human spirit. The city of slick glass skyscrapers may inspire a certain crude awe, as anything gigantic might. But go to the tower districts of Houston, Minneapolis, Dallas, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and I guarantee you will not find anything like enchantment. What you’ll find is sterility, a vacuum, a fiasco of unintended consequences. It turns out that the human spirit needs texture, not sleekness in its dwelling place, and it needs things human-sized to feel truly human, and despite all the striving to escape that, it is exactly what we’re going to get.

James Howard Kunstler, Back to the Future: A road map for tomorrow's cities. Orion Magazine.