Sustainability Through Innovation: Addressing the Global Metabolic Challenge
A MANIFESTO FROM A CREATIVE ECOLOGIST:
When I was 16, I read something from Arthur Rimbaud the French poet, which changed my life. In a letter to his friend, Rimbaud dreamed about how "...to write a POEM which could also serve as a CHAIR" ...... Bingo. I knew immediately, that this was what I also wanted to do, although the other way around: build useful and very practical things you can touch and feel which at the same time can help people - just like poems - to better understand the world.
We are a new race: Homo sapiens urbis. A race which could double life expectancy at birth within four generations: an u...