Conscious Manifestations

A recent Slashdot article brought to my attention a a pilot project tha China commissioned the William McDonough and Partners firm to design. The goal is to create a sustainable city. From the William McDonough and Partners website: "The development of this new community is serving as a national prototype for the design of a sustainable village, an effort focused on creating a template for improving the quality of life for 800 million rural Chinese... The design of the village aspires to draw power from the sun, to maintain materials in closed-loop systems of technical and biological nutrition, and to create an intergenerational community of people productively engaged in restorative commerce. Its goal is to provide a higher quality of life for the villagers and to exemplify a more hopeful future for the children." McDonough received press from the BBC regarding his book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Go McDonough and China! Best of luck in this worthy endeavor.