Sustainable Architecture – Strategic Planning – Feng-shui
For twenty-five years, Tom Bender has been one of the visionary thinkers at the forefront of the sustainability movement. In 1971, Bender quietly published a study, “Living Lightly”, which showed how the U.S. could reduce energy use by a phenomenal 90% while simultaneously improving quality of life. “The piece spread like wildfire across the country in dog-eared xerox copies. People thought I was crazy,” says Bender, “but it got us really looking at what we could do. Now we’re well on the way to accomplishing that goal, which some people belatedly acknowledge as conservative.”
Places of Peace and Power
Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. During the past fifteen years, Martin has visited and photographed over 900 sacred sites in forty countries. This web site discusses Martin’s pilgrimage journeys, features many of his photographs and writings, lists calendar details of upcoming slide show tours, gives information regarding book and photograph orders, and has links to related sites.
Whole Systems
“The essential new quality implied by the quantum theory is… that a system cannot be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of unbroken wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if you do, what you end up with is not contained within the original whole. It is created by the act of analysis.” – David Bohm –
World Transformation
The overall theme here is to make the world a better place, to see things in a positive light, to stand up for one’s rights, to pursue self-improvement and greater freedom, to have fun and to learn new things about life, the universe and everything.
Spirit & Place and Christopher Day
This new section of Art & Spirit is dedicated to the union of the world we build with the world of which we dream. It’s about architecture.
Art & Spirit
Art & Spirit is a virtual laboratory exploring the creative process in the context of the internet.
