Fwd: Will the Real Natural Environment Please Stand Up?

[Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>]

Subject:     Will the Real Natural Environment Please Stand Up?
Sent:        12/28/19 8:53 PM
Received:    12/25/99 1:24 AM
From:        Sue Lani W. Madsen, AIA, suelani@madmitch.com  [A WA 
neighbor across the border....says: ]
To:          HM, general@lists.holisticmanagement.org

The following headline and editorial from "Architecture" magazine,
December, 1999, gave me a real jolt.  Folks focused on the
sustainability of the natural environment, and especially on raising
awareness in the general population about the natural environment, need
to understand what the natural environment/context is for their
audience.  How do you talk to people about mineral cycles and water
cycles who have never seen anything other than fertilizer and lawn
sprinklers - or the "Green Thumb" plant lady with her cart of supplies
in an urban office atrium?  My office is in my home at the end of a
country road, and there are too many days when I spend less than 72
minutes outdoors, and I enjoy the amber waves of grain from my desk.  

"Cover Headline:  THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SPENDS 
        ONLY 72 MINUTES EACH OUTDOORS EACH DAY

Editorial Excerpt:  

"The statistic on the cover of this issue is remarkable - some would say
appalling.  For a nation whose psychic and cultural identity is bound up
in images of spacious skies, amber waves of grain, and purple mountain
majesties, we spend particularly little time enjoying them.

The data has a fascinating - and weighty - implications for architects: 
If Americans aren't outside, it follows that they must be inside, in
buildings.  In other words, the built environement has become our
natural environemnt.  Rather than a mere part of the landscape,
architecture IS the landscape - and of course, architects are the people
who should create it (or at least they're the people who should)."

Do you know who IS creating your built environment?

Sue Lani W. Madsen, AIA  
 
Madsen Mitchell Evenson & Conrad, pllc 	Office:	(509) 236-2311
Edwall, WA  99008-0182			Fax:	(509) 236-2451
	
"Ruts are just graves with the ends kicked out."  
        Stan Wallis, Cattle Rancher

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William K. Medlin
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