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WILLIAM MCDONOUGH + PARTNERS

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William McDonough + Partners - winner of many awards and Time Magazine's Hero for the Planet 1999 - focuses on the consequences of design across all scales, from the molecule to the master plan.

They create affordable, profitable places that build community, encourage diversity, and connect to the natural world in healthy and productive ways.

 

WOLVERTON ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

 

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Wolverton Environmental Services, Inc. (WES, Inc.) has developed a line of phytoremediation technologies using plants and their root-associated microbes for the treatment of domestic and industrial/agricultural wastewater, stormwater runoff and numerous other applications. WES, Inc. is the world's leader in using interior plants for improving indoor air quality.

WES, Inc. pioneered the practical application of the use of phytoremediation techniques for solving environmental pollution problems. Originally developed by Dr. B.C. "Bill" Wolverton for NASA, these natural processes have far more value in pollution control on earth than application in future manned habitats in outer space.

 

FLOWFORMS AMERICA

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At the FlowForms America website, you’ll see Art and Science in the Service of Nature. You’ll find beautiful water-bearing sculptures not only at work, but also sculptures that are beautiful works of art.

You may even learn to see water itself in a new way...and how FlowForms partners with water to bring about healthy changes and to make delightful atmospheres - from simple outdoor and indoor gardens, to public buildings of all sorts, to the daily work of farmers.

Find out how FlowForms can enhance or beautify your life and surroundings.

 

ECOLOGICAL ART
Portal for ecological art - key concepts: aesthetic experience; oikos; imagination; logical nature; mind; ethics; time; space; matter; movement; light; sound; art & music; change; seasons; permanence; ephemera; poetic imagination; intuition; 3D-images; poetry; visualization; harmony; ecological art & poetry; ecological art & ethics; and more.

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LAND ART

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A website by Eugenia PĂ©rez Arango, Artist Associate Professor National University of Colombia. Medellin Campus, Land Art & Other Geographies features notable ecological artists like Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Nils Udo, David Nash and Jean Claude and Christo. In her book Fragile Ecologies Barbara Matilsky writes that these artists differ from the others for, instead of promoting individual activity, their work is financed by an institution for a cooperative enterprise between the artist and the community. If it is true that this art involves a broad variety of forms, it also expresses a common message. The works of art that they labor are for the recuperation or rehabilitation of the earth and for the enlivening of respect and an understanding of Naure.

 

ECOPOLIS & URBAN ECOLOGY AUSTRALIA
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Ecopolis is a rapidly growing company with international outreach and solid national experience in ecological urban design and planning consultancies. Developed over a number of years, the company's networks and working experience give it an exceptional capacity to call upon appropriate and highly skilled input from people and organisations who both understand and are familiar with the unusually broad range of issues involved in eco-city design and development - issues which might range from the law to xeriscape and dryland ecology, and from earthquake-proof earth construction techniques to participatory planning and solar power system design.

It works closely with the award-winning community non-profit organisation Urban Ecology Australia Inc (UEA) which is the only national organisation in Australia with its primary focus on urban environmental issues. Both Ecopolis and UEA were created to make the vision of ecological cities a reality.

 

compiled: 19 august 2001