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| === luminous green reader 2010 === | ==== luminous green reader 2010 ==== |
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| expansions on the previous [[sampler]] and [[recommended reading]] pages... | expansions on the previous [[sampler]] and [[recommended reading]] pages... this is also available as a [[http://locust.fo.am/luminous-reader-2010.pdf|pdf]] for offline reading. |
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| ==== To begin with... ==== | ==== To begin with... ==== |
| If examine today's cultural trends, we can find sporadic weak signals that suggest that the proliferation of 'green' culture, economy and technology will eventually give rise to what Hildegard Von Bingen called 'Viriditas' (Bonn, n.d.), or the green side of mind – a deeper environmental consciousness, that can reconnect our fickle technological (and perhaps technocratic) societies to slower, more persistent geo-ecological scales. | If examine today's cultural trends, we can find sporadic weak signals that suggest that the proliferation of 'green' culture, economy and technology will eventually give rise to what Hildegard Von Bingen called 'Viriditas' (Bonn, n.d.), or the green side of mind – a deeper environmental consciousness, that can reconnect our fickle technological (and perhaps technocratic) societies to slower, more persistent geo-ecological scales. |
| http://lib.fo.am/groworld_hpi | http://lib.fo.am/groworld_hpi |
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| | “I consider ‘weed’ to be a politically incorrect term. There is no biological definition of the term weed. It’s really a value judgment. |
| | If we saw this motley collection of plants differently, we’d realize they’re a kind of marvel: living things in the harsh and stressful urban landscape that don’t just survive there, but thrive. With no effort on our part, they fill the city with greenery, providing cleaner air and water, shade, and food and habitat for wildlife. They do it without expensive fertilizers and irrigation. It’s time, he suggests, that we learned to embrace them — to stop thinking of them only as weeds to uproot, and start considering what they have to offer." |
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| | Nothing is native to the city, The modern city is a new kind of habitat — one that provides pockets of livable spaces in surroundings that can be harsh, inhospitable, and polluted. The city habitat is so specialized, our divisions of “native” and “invasive” plants doesn’t really apply here. Instead, the plants that grow and thrive here could be considered the natural denizens of a new kind of habitat — what he calls “cosmopolitan” species. Peter Del Tredici's (a harvard bioloog). http://socialfiction.org/?n=1937 |
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| ==== Life ==== | ==== Life ==== |
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