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As part of their trip to Canada, the Royal Couple visited Vancouver this weekend. Prince Charles stopped by Simon Fraser University to speak at a seminar about sustainable urbanism:
“Above all else I believe people should be provided with an alternative vision. Otherwise there just seems to be a rather monocultural approach to the way we do many things. And if you sit down with people and consult them as the inquiry by design technique does, it is quiet revealing to see what people feel about many [environmental] issues.
“And just at a time when we find there’s more and more interest in where food comes from, for instance in how it’s grown and the story behind the food we’re eating, so it seems to me it is of even more importance to consider the story about the way we live and the connection to nature and the world around us to culture and to local identity.
“It seems to me of great importance we think about these issues with care and don’t approach things with a monocultural exercise, rather like we do with forestry or anything else, like growing crops.
“So that all these things you can easily interlink, and the fact that we’ve fragmented ourselves in the way in which we look at nature, it seems as though we could do with rediscovering our intimate connection with nature at a time when the world is facing so many enormous challenges over climate change and environmental crises of one kind or another. And thinking of nature’s capital and community capital and how we live off the income of that capital, rather than just the capital, seems to me quiet important,” he said.
It was announced that The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment will collaborate with Simon Fraser University to develop a new advanced education curriculum in sustainable urbanism.
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