A New Design Assignment & The New Aesthetics

EPEA Vision

The Cradle to Cradle Principles:

1) Waste equals food
2) Use current solar income
3) Celebrate diversity

Cradle to Cradle Vision

Imagine a world where human industry operates exactly like a blossoming cherry tree: Every factory, every building and every product is as giving as a cherry tree with its flowers.

Imagine a world where our buildings are like trees: They cover their energy needs by harvesting solar power, produce food and oxygen, create habitat for other species and change with the seasons.

Imagine a world without pollution and waste: Products are made from materials that are beneficial for humans and their surroundings.

Imagine a world where humans can be glad that their actions benefit those around them and the constraints to reduce, minimize, and decrease according to the current "Cradle to Grave" paradigm are a distant memory.

This is the world that Cradle to Cradle offers. And it is a matter of design that starts with the intention to apply conventions found in Nature:

* Waste equals food
* Use current solar income, and
* Celebrate diversity

Forget reactionary doubts like: That's too expensive. That's idealistic. That would never happen. Because it is happening as these examples show:

* Product cases

* Service cases

***Between my love for healthy, organically grown food and all things aesthetically conscientiously made_ ever since I listened to the Monticello Dialogues on New Dimensions Radio, I have been completely won over by what Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart are up to!

I HAD to...

Borrowing from my newest food blog find here, I had to post this image for those of us pure of dietary intention, and those of us who struggle from time-to-time say, with money!

How would you reproduce THIS luscious recipe in the raw? I know it can be done!
This sort of a treat occasionally, is near perfect!

Andy Goldworthy: "Rivers and Tides"

Over a long period of time I have occasionally sat with a Zen sangha in the town that has been my home for twenty-eight years. Over nearly the same number of years sitting, the group has become progressively more connected to one another via the Internet_ sighing, I call this contradiction, spirit in the technological age.
What I am grateful for today, is the arrival of a newsletter item announcing the sangha's showing of a documentary film on the ephemeral nature-centered artwork as created by the artist, Andy Goldworthy.
I add here the clips of this documentary as found on 'YouTube,' in order to share and talk about what many artists do_ particularly the artist writing this blog. In each one's unique way, to utilize all media around an artist to create a person's whole life, is tantamount to one's engagement with reality however that may be possible. One small example, is how I use the Internet to share my current life-transition in a 'web of blogs' of my own organic design as a bridge for now, to what my life as spirit, female, artist, single-mother, etc., is to become after child-rearing!
For my part, there have been years of preparation, thinking and seeing in holistic models, ways of being, experiencing and expressing what constitutes a healthy life for me as individual. Now, I embark on how I might effectively express as artist out in the world in order to hold up examples as it were, of what a healthy lifestyle might 'look' like. My preparations have been laterally-centered, anticipating what material, social, and financial navigation of the forces of change and resistance we all are currently living in. My web-building/networking skills to other people, are still taking on connection and clarity after many years living in specifically-focused social isolation!
Watch the clips on the artwork created by this artist, and listen to the timbre of his voice as he speaks in the present moment, what living/creating now is for him.
My impressions of his working process are that they are rich with what reality can be when one chooses to wake up, see and understand the true nature of self_ then, consciously live one's own life moment to moment!

Acid/Alkaline balance in a Raw Food Diet

2 GREAT Ambassadors for Raw Food Health!

Some thoughts on transitioning to principally raw food

Comparing nutrients values in raw and cooked foods!