Photo Credit: Jon Warren/World Vision

Global regeneration - beyond sustainability

by Cate Montana

WILLOW, NY - No one forgets the face of famine. For many people, the images of starvation and death that poured out of Ethiopia on the newswires during the 1980s will be forever carved in their minds.

Nearly 1 million people starved to death or perished from hunger-related diseases during that time of terrible drought and famine. The Valley of Antsokia in Ethiopia was a dustbowl filled with men, women and children waiting to die when Dr. John McMillin arrived in 1984 as a World Vision relief director. He set to work, not only distributing food, but starting a regenerative agricultural program that would restore the fertility of the valley’s soils and develop healthy farms and crop distribution systems that would ensure that such a disaster never happened again.

Maharishi vedic architecture: Background and summary of scientific research

by Alarik Arenander, Ph.D and Jonathan Lipman, AIA

The ancient predictions for the effects upon us of living in buildings designed according to the guidelines of Vedic architecture or Sthapatya Veda are quite remarkable. The ancient texts propose in detail how influences may be designed into a building to promote such qualities as prosperity, happiness, health and enlightenment. Just as importantly, the text delineate negative influences of improper building design and construction that promote anger, fear and chronic disease, influences that may be diminished through correct design.