Posted on 12/14/2009 5:33:31 AM PST by reaganaut1
Cordes Junction, Ariz. --- In the high desert of central Arizona, more than five thousand miles from the global-warming summit in Copenhagen, sits an aging and unfinished vision of the enviro-friendly, sustainable life that some climate change activists foresee for us all. It's called Arcosanti, created in 1970 by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri, and it is the prototype of a green community of the future.
The only problem is, it doesn't work. And it never did.
Arcosanti is an "arcology," a word Soleri coined by combining "architecture" and "ecology." In Soleri's vision, an arcology is a self-contained city in which hundreds of thousands of people live in a small space, their needs met by green energy sources, recycled and sustainable products, and carefully planned social and cultural events. There are -- G0d forbid -- no cars.
In a Soleri design, masses of people are packed into the small-footprint arcology so that the land surrounding the community can remain pristine, unpolluted by human touch. It was an idea much in fashion a few decades back. "As urban architecture, Arcosanti is probably the most important experiment undertaken in our lifetime," wrote Newsweek in 1976.
Soleri designed models of many futuristic communities, guided by his intense dislike of U.S.-style development. "The 'American Dream,' as physically embodied in the single-family house," he once wrote, "has to be scrapped and reinvented in terms which are coherent with the human and biospheric reality."
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But today, after nearly 40 years, just a few buildings of the common space have been built, and those are gray, leaky and crumbling. On the chilly December day when I visited recently, there were maybe 50 people there, and there are never, even in good weather, more than 100 or 150 inhabitants, mostly students ...
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“enviro-friendly, sustainable life”
Out here on the left coast shortly after 2000, we started running into this Green Sustainable bs in restaurants, farmers markets, grocery stores, farmers’s markets and other areas of business where food is bought and sold directly to the end consumers.
Their premise is that they can force us into eating and wearing what is grown locally with minimal use of tractors, trucks and other ‘evil in their mental illness’ carbon powered vehicles, at first. Later when we are crammed into these hell holes, called biospheres, we will have no vehicles, just communtity bikes.
About 4-5 years ago, this green sustainable bs really got into high gear. I can remember one of these green princesses telling us that we should only eat what was raised with walking distance from where we live. Of course everything raised had to be organic with all the bugs/critter inside the fruit/vegetables and outside.
I asked her what she planned to do with the 98% of us who lived in a county with mere handful of small acreage so called farmers. She said “There will be plenty of food for us!”
Again I asked, what was she going to do with the 98% of us without gardens, who would starve based on the limited production of the so called organic growers, in our local area.
Her response, “There would be no problem!”
I replied, “Like Hitler’s final solution!”
That was when the discussion died.
Since then, I refuse to eat in a restaurant that advertises that its menu comes from local sustainable farmers, ranchers and so called professional fishers.
One look around Arcosanti will tell you that what little was built, was made by people who make designs on paper, not with experience in building things, or understanding of materials, or economics, or business, or history, or energy, or water, or ergonomics, or agriculture, etc.
Nor are they interested in learning any of these things. Instead they feed from the endless numbers of naive art students, and gullible tourists.
Sounds like a metaphor for what the Omaba administration is doing to America...
Exactly like the Chi-coms did under Mao in the 1970's!!! I can still see them swarming the streets of Peking with their coolee cone hats bobbing along!!!
We had a guy over in Placer County that worked for the federal soil conservation district, now called the "Resource Conservation District" that was promoting the "Placer Grown" program.
I used to tease him by calling it... "Placer Groan," instead. He's probably another reason I didn't get re-elected, Ha Ha Ha!!!
No that’s the Biosphere II north of Tucson. It didn’t work either. Made a trip to the Arcology place. They sell interesting over priced bells to support themselves. Thinking they aren’t going to do any better under Hope and Change.
On the other hand, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin is well worth the trip and money.
Again I asked, what was she going to do with the 98% of us without gardens, who would starve based on the limited production of the so called organic growers, in our local area.
Her response, “There would be no problem!”
I replied, “Like Hitler’s final solution!”
That was when the discussion died.
Since then, I refuse to eat in a restaurant that advertises that its menu comes from local sustainable farmers, ranchers and so called professional fishers.
I love it. GD slay 'em with wit and undeniable logic. Way to do. Bunch a friggin idiots.
Tell 'em I have have a bunch of predigested, recycled soft hot logs they can eat and wash it down with some recycled, filtered lemonade colored liquid hourishment. All very "sustainable."
“Tell ‘em I have have a bunch of predigested, recycled soft hot logs they can eat and wash it down with some recycled, filtered lemonade colored liquid hourishment. All very “sustainable.”
Eww!
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