Tuesday
Touching the Earth in Mexico
By John Perkins and Margaretta Sander
In the central mountains of Mexico the town of San Miguel de Allende sits against the hills of the high desert plain. A UNESCO World Heritage site, San Miguel is consistently on the Conde Nast list of top 10 cities. It is a gem of friendliness, color, history, and culture, and rich with local Dralas too. On a recent visit, Eva Wong described San Miguel as the “Gateway of Shambhala to Mexico with a strong Kasung spirit.”
From it’s founding in 1542 when it was a way-station on the “silver road,” the wealthy population developed a colonial architecture with Spanish, Moorish, Persian influences using adobe, stone and lime mortars. These materials and construction methods were naturally sustainable and it wasn’t until the early 20th century that concrete and brick supplanted the traditional ways, bringing enormous pollution and resource consumption.
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