A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans - Thomas Berry.
don't like Cambridge. It's a pursed-lipped, blotchy-cheeked place, mouse-mean and judgmental, stuck in the thick, boot-sucking black mud, hibernating brassicas and roots. Oliver Cromwell came from here, went to college here, was a local MP and farmed. His pious, proto-fascistic prescription and presumption grow out of this rich, self-satisfied loam. The big sky domes small, flat, sealed minds. There is a great and unattractive English energy that billows out of this featureless, blustery, raw-knuckled neck of a place - AA Gill http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_o…
In Todmorden, Yorkshire, vegetables and herbs grow almost everywhere, even in the cemetery and outside the police station. Everywhere you turn edible plants abound. In this talk given at TED London Salon, Pam Warhurst explained why and how she and others created Incredible Edible, a revolution not only in the way the town eats, but also in the way they think about public space, and which is inspiring other communites around the UK and increasingly, around the world.
What did ancient Rome look like in A.D. 320? Rome Reborn is an international initiative to answer this question and create a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built.
In order to create a drought-friendly garden, people are now experimenting in using the smallest amount of water that they can.
We make doors and windows for a room. But it is the spaces that make the room liveable. While the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful - Lao Tzu
Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them - Valentine Iheanacho, letter to Time, 28/11/06
The great adventure of this coming century is to discover who inhabits the world - Theordore Zeldin, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/43a2ca6a-d392-11dc-b861-0000779fd2ac.html
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them - Bill Vaughan
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be - E. F. Schumacher (1911?77), British economist and conservationist. Small is Beautiful (1973)