Elizabeth Demaray, the keynote speaker for the Environment Across Boundaries Symposium, blew me away with her unique and utterly fascinating ideas. She uses art to convey complex ideas about the boundaries between the built and natural world, the humorous and the serious, and the pragmatic and impractical. She described one of my favorite examples of […]
The World Without Us Reflections
Skimming Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, I found it it to be a fascinating yet problematic book. Its premise is incredibly intriguing; it asks, what would the world look like if humans suddenly disappeared? And Weisman’s answer? The world would, more or less, be better off without us. This is a depressing sounding conclusion, and it […]