It’s easy to post photos of South Africa’s gorgeous scenery; it’s natural to tell stories of delightful dinners and fine wines and sweet new friends. It’s harder to know which words and images to share when touching on troubling tensions in the land.
Communities carrying burdens. Families seeking answers.
Limited resources and widespread problems.
Recently, I was struck by a fellow landscape architect’s comment on issues of conservation, sustainability, and management: “We know the problems. We need to spend our time talking about the solutions.“
In that same vein, I’m not going to spend much time talking about the problems. The world knows much of the South African story already:
Fallout from Apartheid.
Poverty.
HIV/AIDS.
Instead, I want to shine light on the good men and women sinking their life’s work into making solutions a reality in their own community. Continue Reading…