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 **The starting point** **The starting point**
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 The representation of green architecture in magazines is quite often problematic: beautiful houses built with green materials and the latest sustainable technologies... in the middle of an almost pristine natural environment! Maybe it's time to reconsider tower blocks with their much smaller "footprint". The representation of green architecture in magazines is quite often problematic: beautiful houses built with green materials and the latest sustainable technologies... in the middle of an almost pristine natural environment! Maybe it's time to reconsider tower blocks with their much smaller "footprint".
  
 **Basic questions** **Basic questions**
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 How do we imagine a green harmonious future? How do we imagine a green harmonious future?
 How are green harmonious futures represented in our culture? How are green harmonious futures represented in our culture?
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 **What we discussed** **What we discussed**
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 Participants were invited to bring up aspects of the green harmonious future they personally envisioned. Participants were invited to bring up aspects of the green harmonious future they personally envisioned.
  
 **What came up** **What came up**
-Use less and share more + 
-Use more nature (e.g. natural cooling in Kyoto) +  * Use less and share more 
-No growth (e.g. island with glass factories in Murano) +  * Use more nature (e.g. natural cooling in Kyoto) 
-Control population growth +  * No growth (e.g. island with glass factories in Murano) 
-Give human rights to animal rights +  * Control population growth 
-Re-empower nature:+  * Biodiversity: also in food production, no more global gargantuan monocultures 
 +  * Re-empower nature: allow nature to take over parks to create "natural" parks, and not manicured, artificial ones 
 +  * Give human rights to animal rights 
 +  * New consciousness about the cycle of life and death: realizing the deeper meaning of death, impermanence and your body returning to soil/fire/air may instigate a enriched connection to nature 
 +  * Connect to nature: lake = soup and soup = lake (in contrast with the lake of milk and the mountain of butter), NEWater 
 +  * Renewed relationship to time: slowdown, back to seasonality 
 +  * New relationship to technology: transcend the schism nature-technology, coexistence 
 +  * Improved information: data (cradle to cradle) and education (e.g. lead-free solder and tin whiskers, http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/10_01.htm) 
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