Meghalaya's Living Bridges

The people of Meghalaya have recognized a way of working with nature to create a long range, sustainable, multi generational solution to a complex perennial problem. They have implemented a design which becomes more effective with the passage of time, and is illustrative of people living in accord with nature.

Working against nature

Many traditional approaches to living with and working with nature have been supplanted in favor of conquering nature: often expensive industrial and high tech solutions. Some are inherently dangerous, their bi-products frequently creating uncountable, unanticipated problems.

Just enough

Just enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan, by Azby Brown, is full of concrete and vivid examples of sustainable living during the late Edo period in Japan.

There are many important lessons to be learned from successes implemented by traditional cultures. I will write more about this at a later date.