I feel uncertain to comment on the blueprint without a complete reading, as what I considered problem may actually be solved somewhere I fail to cover. But on what I have read, I get the sense that Jonathon Porritt attach the greatest effect on future on technological programs. Apart from…
Environmental Karma
I would design a policy concerning distribution of responsibility. Economic policies like taxes have been applied to adjust demand/supply so as to reflect externalies. Although I only know basic economic principles, I presume a problems of such policies. People who may adjust their behaviors under such policies are totally passive…
Sewage and EJ
In a nature’s system, there are obvious elements, like food, as well as hidden elements, like sewage. The latter is as much necessary but not as noticeable. However, when the system does not function smoothly, the hidden part will take unwanted salience. I learned this when I visited the farm…
The Idea of Permaculture
Permaculture is the basis of a sustainable future, as agriculture is the basis of human society, for it is from these human practices that we are able to practically place ourselves in the ecological system of earth. (Place our muck just as the wild’s muck, into the nature’s system.) Without…
Chewing a gum
I don’t smoke. During the years, I have also developed a distaste for marihuana. Therefore, I don’t quite like walking on the street of SF, Ecotopia. Back in my room, I still feel infected with smoke, and would like to chew a lemon flavor gum. Damn, they don’t have gum…
I am not sure I understand
I am not sure I understand. Once in class we criticized Trump’s plan to bring back jobs by keep holding on the fuel industry, pointing out that the renewable energy industry can offer blue-collar jobs too. In this case, the political system provides a battle ground of discourse to distort…
The Politics behind the Greens
KSR followed some socialist ideal in constructing the world. In El Modena, people seem to work for work’s sake. It seems that they don’t particularly want what is extra to their current ways of living. Except for Alfredo and the AAMT, no one seems to want more materially. Everyone seems…
Fiction and Action
In objecting Plato’s disapproving the value of fiction (poetry at the time), Aristotle argues that reading fiction develops and exercises our understanding of the world as fiction explores the possibility of a particular situation. In environmental science fiction, various possibilities of future are explored with imagination and speculation. Compared with,…
the Natural and the Unnatural
For the most part of my life, I live in urban area with rare adventures to the nature. The lack in experience of wildness contributes to my sentiment toward nature, the one that Frankenstein shares when he goes to the mountains to cure his trauma, the awe to its sublimity…
Introductions: Zhengtao Qu
Name: Zhengtao Qu Hometown: Lanzhou, China Major: undeclared, maybe Literature Three topics that intrigue me: Marxist theories, Globalization vs nationalism, short stories. Most interesting bit of news I read recently: Arsenal is losing 4-0 against Liverpool