Take a look at the January/February 2008 issue of Orion magazine and read about Healing Sculpture: Art installations that help restore damaged watersheds, by Daniel McCormick. Sculptures sited in watersheds act as silt traps that allow rivers to heal. These sculptures slowly dissolve as the stream banks stabilize and nature takes over.
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On its heels follows the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970
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A question of attribution
My regenerative concept for the Trade Center was submitted to the New Visions New York panel for consideration as an overarching vision. The documentation is here. The concept of crystalline light shattering at 9:15 am on Sept. 11, in a site regenerated with a tree of life and "green towers" now lives on in many other urban design schemes.