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The Beauty of Sustainability
created by eclark
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6
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492
Added:
2011-02-23
Last Updated:
2011-02-23
Why do so many sustainable practices result in beautiful objects? A single-produced, hand-crafted objects... scenes of awe-inspiring nature... living architecture that actually grows, in complex natural patterns... gardens inspired by the natural growing tendencies of plants... the minimalist simplicity of ancient, time-tested, sustainable technologies... The results of our industrialized, efficiency-focused practices pale in comparison to these natural beauties. Whether truly sustainable or not, the results of some of these sustainability experiments and practices ARE TRULY GORGEOUS.
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Magnus Larsson: Turning Dunes into Architecture (2009)
Magnus Larsson details a plan to build in the Sahara using sand itself.
Check out what can be made using sand- actual buildings that people could live in! As an artist myself, I know that sometimes the greatest constraints bring out the greatest creativity. This is obviously an example of that phenomenon- these dune buildings are unlike anything you would see made out of steel, cement, or any of your typical industrial building materials.
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Mitchell Joachim: Don't Build Your Home, Grow It (2010)
Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture.
What if we let buildings grow themselves?? These buildings don't just fit into the landscape, they ARE the landscape. Check out the MEAT house at 02:30. Straight out of Star Wars! I hope this is the architecture of the future!
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Alternative Forms of Energy
A hand-processed and hand-painted film about biodiesel manufacture.
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As the Garden Grows, No. 1
Weekly progress of a Texas garden.
Sometimes I walk through neighborhoods in Austin and am appalled at the greenness of lawns here. It's unnatural, and clearly a huge waste of water! To me, that kind of wastefulness is ugly. The garden in this video is full of native species: Texas wildflowers, Mexican sage. These are what is meant to grow in this climate, and I think when we let nature run its course, the results are so much more appealing than when we try to manage it.
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Jonathan Drori: Why We're Storing Billions of Seeds (2009)
Jonathan Drori explains the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank to protect biodiversity.
What's more aesthetically appealing than heterogeneity? I know biodiversity is important on many levels, but thinking about it from an aesthetic standpoint, biodiversity keeps the planet beautiful and interesting!
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