© SUGi (via YouTube)
SUGi’s mission is to empower rewilding and bring Nature closer to anyone anywhere. Our Forest Makers and Ocean Gardeners use your funds to restore biodiversity and regenerate ecosystems.
From the YouTube-Channel by the beautiful SUGi project. If you want to know more about the propagated Miyawaki method and the idea of the “Mini-forests”, there’s a book by Hannah Lewi.
One for my growing antilibrary.
In this article, I set to understand and explore fundamental thinking that examines a new design worldview. A proposal to change our ways of working as designers, first in voluntary communities (which we already have, but with different goals) and then to be better equipped to understand and explore as individuals and as a community. This is not a desperate article. Believe me when I say this is an article full of hope and wonder.
A great plea by fellow designer Angelos Arnis to transform design (and business) and get ready for the new realities and challenges of the future: Designing for the last earth.
© Universal Everything / Hyundai (via Vimeo)
Ocean is an artful representation of recycling ocean plastic into the fabric used in the interiors of the all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5 car.
Ocean is a beautiful large-scale video installation from Universal Everything, “a remote-working collective of digital artists, experience designers and future makers” to celebrate the launch of Hyundai Motorstudio in Jakarta, Indonesia.
© emocritus Properties, LLC / Cosmos Studios, Inc. (via YouTube)
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan is always a win.
© Science and Nonduality (via YouTube)
A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions, in deep integrity with one’s essence.
That must be the most incredible place for a ‘Home Office’ I’ve ever seen; mathematic Michael has practically left civilisation and lives alone inside the thick jungle of Hawaii now, twenty minutes away from the closest existing road. The academic and Buddhist cleared the plot of land he afterward built his solitary home on himself by hand with material he all brought on his shoulders.
I haven’t checked any other content created by SAND (Science and Nonduality) besides The Art of Life so far and I’m always a bit cautious when it comes to prominently presented spirituality, but this short documentary video portrait is magnificent and I admire the wonderful place “devoted to beauty and impracticality” Michael has created.
We’re building a non-profit, free repository of pure, immersive natural soundscapes as a fundraising platform for local, grassroots charities that support the restoration of our natural world.
The website earth.fm is “like Spotify, but for natural soundscapes”. I love everything about this.
© Patagonia (via YouTube)
Fishpeople tells the stories of a unique cast of characters who have dedicated their lives to the sea. Featuring Kimi Werner, Eddie Donnellan, Dave Rastovich, Matahi Drollet, Ray Collins and Lynne Cox.
Another beautiful short documentary produced by environmentally conscious clothing company Patagonia. After spending some days near the coast myself recently for the first time in literally years, I only realized again how much I’ve missed the sea. Probably that’s one of the reasons I enjoy this video so much; I’d love to live closer by and with the ocean myself.
© Patagonia Films / Jordan Manley (via Vimeo)
Follow a group of skiers, snowboarders, scientists and healers to the birch forests of Japan, the red cedars of British Columbia and the bristlecones of Nevada, as they explore an ancient story written in rings.
I’m in love with the magnificent short documentary Treeline by Patagonia Films. Strongly recommend you to check out the other “films with Impact” the collective has produced “on behalf of our home planet” so far.
© Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (via YouTube)
© Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
© Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
© Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Before I decided to join the creative industry to make a living, I wanted to become a marine biologist and I’m still fascinated by the manifold creatures of the sea. There’s a lot of beauty in nature –not just in the ocean, but everywhere– providing valuable inspiration for the different branches of design in my opinion.
Just look at the graceful movement and the very textile appearance of this giant phantom jelly –the bell is one-meter in diameter, the arms can grow to more than 10 meters in length– living in the so-called midnight zone of the deep-sea in ~6600 meters depth for example. I think, there’s a piece of clothing waiting to be made here.
If you want to learn more about this rarely documented jellyfish and some other exotic animals check out the “Creature feature” section on the website of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, there are interesting forms and colour schemes to discover and a lot of fresh inspiration to gather.
© Jan van IJken (via YouTube)
Jan van IJken filmed the plankton through his microscopes, revealing the beauty and delicate structures of the minute organisms in the finest detail. The film is without any voice-over or explanation.
A sequence from Planktonium, a short by filmmaker and photographer Jan van IJken. The ~15-minute documentary is showing the microscopic base of the oceanic food chain –and thus the foundation of life on this wonderful planet– in a new light with astonishing imagery. Go buy (or rent) the whole film, if you like the short clip.
© BBC Earth (via YouTube)
It’s crazy that a whale did this, but my friend Robert Pittman wrote a paper about altruism in humpback whales, about how humpback whales have altruistic behavior towards other animals. Not just their own species but other animals. Altruism is a true act of kindness, when you protect someone without asking or expecting anything in return.
In A whale saved my life scientist Nan Hauser tells the touching story of an encounter she had with a humpback whale while filming in the south pacific close to the Cook Islands.
One of the remarkable experiences BBC Earth collected for their video series Close Encounters.
