Intentional Living: Community, Ecology, and Architecture
A Traveling Fellowship to Scandinavia, Holland, and Great Britain
Thomas RC Hartman and Kristin A DeBoer
Deciding how and where to live your life is the most profound choice a person can make. For millennia, humans lived their lives in the places that they were born, intimately tied to the landscape in which they found themselves. Their choice of food, work, art, spiritual practice, community organization, architecture, etc...was rooted in their ecological context. Peoples in hot arid climates built cool adobe structures and took siestas to escape the sun. In cold northern climates, people celebrated the bright summer solstice to carry them through the dark winter. These days it seems much rarer to see people with home and work connected to the place where they live, especially in the United States. More commonly people fall into the comforts of suburbia, with central air and mechanically watered lawns. Or people travel around the globe in pursuit of work and adventure, without ever really settling in one place...
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