LIFE Voices: Going Wild In China
There seems to be a bit of a conservation theme going on in this blog at the moment, and it’s about to be perpetuated. A new monthly podcast has been released this week. The subtitle is what caught my eye first: The Extraordinary in Everyday Life. Smacks of serendipity to me, let’s have a look.
Episode I is about Dr. Josef Margraf, a German biologist who went to China and didn’t come back. It all started with a rare species of banana in a Buddhist monastery, but now he cultivates over a hundred different types of plant, by replicating their natural rainforest environments. In his own words:
“Our goal is to reverse the trend of destruction and eventually design systems that look exactly like the old rainforest that has been cut down by logging companies, that have been replaced by rubber plantations and sugar cane plantations. We wish to reverse this trend to come back to a rainforest that is actually useful.”
Dr Margraf says his work has not only led him to discoveries in nature but also discoveries in himself. Furthermore, he has been amazed by the profound success of his project, which he calls Tian Zi, or Seeds of Heaven.
You can watch the clip above, or you can subscribe to the series for free on iTunes. (You can get iTunes here if you don’t have it yet, and Quicktime here.)
LIFE Voices is created by Kedar Misani for SriChinmoy.TV
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