Archive for September, 2008

Growing hope in the Arava Desert

Ketura Valley and Kibbutz Lotan. Israel

For the Ketura Wetlands Project, very young Israelis and Palestinians worked together to transform an arid valley into fertile land. The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a fine example of the Green Kibbutz Movement, and the wider Sustainable Management Agriculture philosophy / S E E +

Gota Mineral Water

Entre Ríos. Mesopotamia. Argentina

The luxury of the most basic elements: Mineral water from the massive South American Guarani Aquifer is bottled as a premium brand / S E E +

Understanding Nature’s intelligence

London. England

From an unorthodox perspective, between science and religion, the documentary Metanoia shows that Nature is better understood as a self-organizing system, and human evolution depends on our ‘making sense’ within the larger context of the Biosphere / S E E +

Manto is a journey

Northwest Argentina

This brand’s name stems from a Quechua language term meaning “from the sky, from above” –a word still heard in andean villages where textile art is a means of work and permanence of their identity / S E E +