Published by Swany on 22 Mar 2010 at 12:25 pm
An Interview with David Orr, author of ‘Down to the Wire’
Post Carbon Institute: “With my students, we talk about all these gee whizz environmental solutions and so forth, I want to get them to think about the dark side of what can happen, because I think the ‘happy talk’ view of humans is quite dangerous. I think that there are clearly ways in which Transition Towns and the local sustainability movement could become parochial and in my part of the world we have a history which shows that small towns can be vicious, mean places.”
Broc Smith on 22 Nov 2010 at 5:02 pm #
Is this the David Orr that use to visit obscure places in the world selling fibreglass water slides?
Broc on 03 Nov 2011 at 9:37 pm #
ISBN: 9781614347156
88 Pieces or The World’s Largest Dinosaur
Broc K. Smith
Publisher’s Info:
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Angela Hoy, Publisher
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Synopsis
88 Pieces or: The World’s Largest Dinosaur, a 74,000-word memoir, chronicles two remarkable journeys: that of Regina, an 80-foot-high sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex located in Drumheller, Canada, and that of her designer, Broc Smith, an ex-patriot who teeters through the life of an intercontinental design freelancer in an unrestrained, self- destructive, ultimately transformative search for meaning.
Bio
Mr. Smith is a theatre trained “hands-on designer” with over 20 years of experience in theatre performance, costume, prop, stage design and construction before coming to Asia in 1992. Beginning with exhibitions and events in Singapore, he has been involved in designing world-class expos throughout Southeast Asia and country-wide events. He has helped to create China’s first world-class water park in Shanghai and interiors for Asia’s largest aquarium in Pudong, and was also a principal designer for Happy Valley Beijing. Mr. Smith has been a Senior Designer for multinational companies as well as an independent freelancer and is currently the Design Director for Longri Landscape Company and lives with his wife and son in Shenzhen.