“We are reinvesting in communities that care and are compassionate not only with each other but with the Earth. I think we are really moving towards a kind of interspecies justice and we are starting to realize that this mutual responsibility that we have for each other is our primary spiritual responsibility. It is not just pragmatic, it is ‘practical respect.’” Robin Wall Kimmerer This interview…
Category: Interviews
Biomimicry, Climate Change, and Architecture: An Interview with Michael Pawlyn
“All my work is motivated by frustration with the word ‘sustainable’. The word suggests something that is merely adequate, but we should be looking for truly regenerative solutions. We have moved from controlling nature to learning from its elements, but today we should be looking for complete reconciliation with the natural world.” Michael PAWLYN Michael Pawlyn is a British architect and one of the current…
Rediscovering our earthly emotions – an interview with environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht
Glenn Albrecht is an Australian philosopher and ecologist who was for many years Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia and is now an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. In his book Earth Emotions (2019), he argues that we have lost awareness of our deep and long-standing connection to nature and that we no longer have the words to…
Indigenous technologies could change the way we design cities – an interview with Julia Watson
“These LO-TEK technologies are born from symbiotic relationships with our environment, where humans live in symbiosis with natural systems. That’s where we need to move today. We are not superior, we are not working against nature or threatening it, we need to be in symbiosis with it. We need to change this idea of superiority to an understanding of symbiosis.” Julie Watson Julia Watson (born 1977) is an Australian landscape architect and…