Energy & Environment (NY Times)
“To stop climate change ,students aim at college portfolios”
*** In recent weeks, college students on dozens of campuses have demanded that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks. The students see it as a tactic that could force climate change, barely discussed in the presidential campaign, back onto the national political agenda.
Imagining was necessary & possible.
-Bill McKibben, a writer turned advocate for carbon reduction, is on a national tour to build support for the divestment campaign.
1. Burke : basically coined “4th estate” & when you try to do something it will have unattended consequences. Society would now be unruly.
2.James C. Scott : Professor Who Learns From Peasants
“It’s good to have something that requires your body and leaves your mind alone.”
***Comparing Burke to Scott’s idea, what we can take away from both is that we have reached a point where we have gotten out of balance withing mind,body and soul. The spirital ideas vs. the ideas of the world. Communication is an important first step and the second is the physical, to take action.
Operating Manual For Spaceship …. : Buckminster Fuller : Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts. Fuller’s true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a more sustainable planet.
-The manual is like a spaceship
http://anagrammatically.com/2010/03/08/the-book-of-sand-el-libro-de-arena-by-borges-translated/
http://latineos.com/en/articles/literature/item/92-the-book-of-sand-by-jorge-luis-borges.html
* THE FUTURE IS ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN IMAGINE, MAKE REAL, & SEE
Final Exam :TBA
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