Inspiring Sustainability: Check Out This Living Bridge In Meghalaya, India
This lovely short piece is about a Living Bridge in Meghalaya, India. Don't know what a "living bridge" is? Then, check this out.
Sustainability is a concept with many meanings. To designers and architects it means one thing, to economists another, to businessmen something else, and to an ecologist completely something else. Even with diversity of definitions, sustainability comes down to practical elements and a time-line to sustain a process, a structure, an environment, or a business over a long period. To the people of Meghalaya State in northeast India, sustainability means something essential, generational in time, and amazing.
Meghalaya is one of the wettest spots on Earth with rainfalls that can reach nearly 600 inches/year. It’s name literally means Abode of Clouds and the landscape is covered in tropical forests, mountains, gorges, and raging rivers. Even by standards of the trans-Himalayan region, Meghalaya is remote and difficult to visit. However, even in their isolation the people there have evolved a biological based design methodology worthy of any definition of the word sustainability in practical application anywhere.
