When I was a child, a forest stood in front of my house—a place where I played, explored, and felt nurtured by nature. When I was ten, the forest was cleared for development. I remember watching from my window as the trees fell one after another, feeling an unexpected and profound sadness. I asked myself, Why does this hurt so much? It is the trees being cut, not me. 

In central Chile, the coastal city of Viña del Mar once housed a major petroleum distribution hub for COPEC SA, one of the nation’s largest energy companies. Decades of industrialization and motorization degraded both the quality of urban life and the surrounding ecosystems, leaving the site stripped of vitality. Today, however, the same ground has been transformed

この度、Ecological Memesの理事に新たに山本円郁氏が就任いたしました。