Germany’s coal mines are now Europe’s largest lake district

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When the last miners left the open-cast lignite pits of eastern Germany’s Lusatia region, they left behind craters stretching more than 200 feet (60 meters) deep. What followed was not restoration in any conventional sense. It was construction: the deliberate, painstaking work of building a landscape that had never […] The post Germany’s coal mines are now Europe’s largest lake district first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.