The Synergism and Progress of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
As specified in point 8 of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development: “We are announcing today 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 associated targets which are integrated and indivisible. Never before have world leaders pledged common action and endeavor across such
How Trees Can Save Us
Introduction Alick Bartholomew, author of The Spiritual Life of Water, describes four geologic periods when forests thrived on this planet. The first was the Carboniferous, 350 million years ago, when land vertebrates established. The second was the Jurassic, 170 million years
The Poetry of Architecture: An Interview With Taylor Hazell Architects
Jill Taylor, alongside her partner Charles Hazell, are Co-Founders of Taylor Hazell Architects (THA), a firm focusing on the restoration of heritage buildings across Canada. I caught up with Jill this summer to chat with her about their work, her
Interview with Mitchell Joachim: an Innovator in Ecological Design
Mitchell Joachim is an innovator in ecological design, architecture, and urban design, Co-Founder at Terreform One and Associate Professor at New York University. He has won many awards like the AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, 1st Place International
Paving over the Silk Road
The Silk Road is an ancient corridor roughly 6,437 kilometres long, extending from Europe to southern China originating from the Chinese Han Dynasty in around 206 BC. The first thread in the fabric of now ubiquitous globalization, the Silk Road