Though it has been around for a few years now, I find this initiative highly imaginative & seriously innovative!
The Funky Forest digital interactive ecosystem employs a hands-on approach where children create trees with their body and resultantly divert the water flowing from a waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. we know that the well-being of our trees (forests on a larger scale) contributes to the health forest life, including animals that live in it. This interactive model was created by design experts Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson. When a tree is deprived of water, it withers, and standing against a wall and pressing your body into the forest creates new trees based on your shape and character. The purpose of this approach endevours to raise awareness amongst children about our eco-system, how everything is interrelated, and our actions have an influence on our environment and eventual well-being of human beings.
The Bahá'í viewpoint on environmental conservation pivots 3 main points:
1) Since the universe (in its natural state) is a reflection of the majestic qualities and attributes of the Supreme Being, it must be accorded the utmost respect;
2) The world of creation is intricately interconnected; and
3) The unity of humankind is the essential truth and compelling force in this age, and thus influencer of maintenance of a healthy ecosystem
Humanity can survive the serious environmental and developmental challenges facing it, as long as humanity honors its responsibilities and commitments to make necessary sacrifices and changes that will transform the world, and preserve its beauty.
"In such a world society... the economic resources of the world will be organized, its sources of raw materials will be tapped and fully utilized, its markets will be coordinated and developed, and the distribution of its products will be equitably regulated ...The enormous energy dissipated and wasted on war, whether economic or political, will be consecrated to such ends as will extend the range of human inventions and technical development, to the increase of the productivity of mankind, to the extermination of disease, to the extension of scientific research, to the raising of the standard of physical health, to the sharpening and refinement of the human brain, to the exploitation of the unused and unsuspected resources of the planet, to the prolongation of human life and to the furtherance of any other agency that can stimulate the intellectual, the moral and spiritual life of the entire human race" - Shoghi Effendi
