[ http://store.wildernesscommittee.org/campaigns/historic/stoltmann_wilderness/reports/Vol19No03/1st_nations ]

Ustryalov likened Soviet Russia to a radish – red outside and white inside. This has been followed by the remark that middle class blacks are are coconuts or potatoes ( brown outside and white inside) and the rising generation of civic and industrial leades are watermelons (green outside and red inside). So perhaps we need an environmental equivalent of Human Rights Watch, monitoring our leaders to measure the relationship between what they say and what they do.
BP sent out the following Christmas Newsletter in December 2009: Christmas is not the easiest time of year to be green. So while there’s plenty we can still do better in the ways we choose to celebrate the season, it’s a particularly good time to think about neutralising the carbon we’ll inevitably generate. That’s why our focus in this issue is on carbon offsetting – the “neutralise” part of the BP Target Neutral programme.

raddish is red outside and white inside

Post post modernism is inherently green centred (eco-centred), afterall why would a landscape architect be concerned with it otherwise?

In some ways Post post modern consciousness could date to the Brundtland Report of 1987. It is interesting to reflect on this statement by Charles Caccia:

“How long can we go on and safely pretend that the environment is not the economy, is not health, is not the prerequisite to development, is not recreation? Is it realistic to see ourselves as managers of an entity out there called the environment, extraneous to us, an alternative to the economy, too expensive a value to protect in difficult economic times? When we organize ourselves starting from this premise, we do so with dangerous consequences to our economy, health, and industrial growth.
We are now just beginning to realize that we must find an alternative to our ingrained behaviour of burdening future generations resulting from our misplaced belief that there is a choice between economy and the environment. That choice, in the long term, turns out to be an illusion with awesome consequences for humanity.”

Charles Caccia
Member of Parliament, House of Commons
WCED Public Hearing
Ottawa, 26-27 May 1986

Post post modern thinking is inherently thinking ‘beyond’ humanity and ‘beyond’ right now.

Well I suppose ‘natural’ disasters are more the contemporary concern than plagues. Although the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on the elimination of malaria through the distribution of mosquito nets. [ http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx ] Installing flywire screens can also assist with eliminating mosquitoes from buildings.

“….they are ubiquitous in the French and Italian parts of the mediterranean. During warm weather they are shut, to keep the flat in cool shade, and parts of them are like small insect shutters that you can open separately, for air and light.”
[ http://princexswe.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/img_0352.jpg?w=500&h=375 ]

I suppose the Post post modern responds to the Post modern view of the world and the peculiarly postmodern problems that postmodernity exposed with an optimism rather than a pessimism.

Postmodernity and the postmodern:

“When people talk about postmodernism, the problem is that they are referring to something very elusive and slippery. In the academic world, it is best understood as a new Weltanschaung – a new organizing principle in thought, action, and reflection, connected to many changing factors in modern society. The term postmodern was first applied, around 1971, to a new architectural style which combined old, classical forms with modern pragmatism and scientific engineering. Since then, the postmodernist advocates have used the term to describe their movement as a reaction to the wholesale failure of modernity – the betrayals of the modernist movement in the arts, primarily, but also modernity understood as a social process – industrialization, urbanization, centralization, and ‘progress’ and ‘civilization’ as those terms are often used popularly. This movement is not called ‘antimodernism’ because it is not a rejection of modernity in toto , but as its advocates claim, an effort to combine the best of the modern world with the best elements of the traditions of the past, in an organic way that eliminates the worst parts of both.”

As a post-post Modernist in style (aesthetic) and/or/both movement (thought) you are somewhat in the avant garde?

Oh, and yes, maybe a purist fractalist would see Federation Square as a Fractal Jacket on a Modernist structure!