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Healing Water Institute

The Healing Water Institute is an international education and research group with charitable trusts in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and currently being formed in the United States.

Our whole aim is to help water support life better. Water is under great attack from agricultural and industrial pollution and urban mis-use , greatly reducing its ability to support life.

To achieve this we provide education events, we research water and also design technology that helps improve water's condition.

You must choose between making money and making sense

"You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive."
in 1983

Man is designed to be a success just like the hydrogen atom is designed to be a success

"What are the resources? What are the tasks necessary to make 100% of humanity a success? How can we ever do so without ever advantaging one human at the expense of another? How may we render all the world and all its treasures enjoyable available to all men without having one interfering with or trespassing upon the other? How may we reform the environment so that the integrity of all society is not violated by the free initiatives of the individual nor the integrity of the individual violated by the developing welfaring advantage and happiness of the many?
NASA Speech

Better designers than God?

Humans who think they are better designers than God are the most to be pitied of liars - the liars who are believingly convinced by their own only-self-conveniencing fabrications.

Context Free

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

Chris' program was a command line program for unix-like systems. We couldn't wait to play with creating our own images, but we wanted a full graphical environment for exploring them. Hence, Context Free, an environment for editing and rendering CFDG design grammars.

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