by Hody Nemes
~ I spend my days entombed in a skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. I am writing these words in an eight-story apartment building.
As the world urbanizes, and as the urban sprawls further afield, we spend our lives increasingly surrounded by the human-made – brilliant engineering, beautiful cityscapes, wonderful in their own way, yet sometimes painfully lacking. A wonderful other sort of beauty, the emergent beauty of ecosystems -- of field, forest, coral reef -- is increasingly harder to find.
Thanks to climate change and other massive societal ...
