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Permaculture Blog

David Kohler
December 13, 2017
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I think permaculture is an important step toward a more sustainable future and one that I think people would be interested in pursuing if they are given the information. There are many sustainable solutions that a lot of people don’t really get excited for (like many people wouldn’t give up…

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Final Project Abstract

David Kohler
November 24, 2017
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For my final project, I will be focusing on the idea of terraforming. For the first part, I will make a Zork-like interactive fiction text-based adventure game based in a future with terraforming. This game will be influenced by the research done in the second part of my project. For…

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Future of Entertainment

David Kohler
November 20, 2017
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Something not discussed much in The World We Made, is the future of the entertainment industry. I find it very odd that this topic isn’t a part of the book, seeing as how popular and widespread the industry is today, and I don’t think this popularity will fade any time…

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Food Policy

David Kohler
November 13, 2017
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If I could design a policy initiative, it would have to relate to food production and food waste. On a global scale, I think it would be a good idea to enforce certain limits to the amount of food wasted—for example, only a certain percentage of a country’s total food…

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Response to KSR’s “Green Earth”

David Kohler
October 20, 2017
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Overall, Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Green Earth” left me feeling unsatisfied. I felt that while KSR mentioned some interesting solutions such as permaculture and carbon sinks, he didn’t detail these solutions enough. Instead of exploring these ideas, he chose to explore politics. As someone with a strong distaste for politics, I…

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My Thoughts So Far

David Kohler
September 29, 2017
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(July 22) It’s been exactly a month since that reporter Will Weston wrote his article “Work and Play Among the Ecotopians”, and a little over a week since I first came here to see for this country for myself. I will say, getting here was not easy considering the relations…

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A Spark of Hope

David Kohler
September 23, 2017
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I believe there will always be hope in the Anthropocene—but whether this hope is actually fruitful is another question. As Maria Popova states, “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté” (Solnit, 32). Hope can be a great thing for a person or even a…

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A Big Picture Ending

David Kohler
September 15, 2017
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Was the ending of Pacific Edge a satisfying conclusion to the story? Yes, it wrapped up the arcs of most of the characters nicely, resolved the main conflict, and finished on an (overall) positive note. But was it a satisfying conclusion to Kevin’s story? No. In the very last scene…

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Making Fiction a Reality

David Kohler
September 8, 2017
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We might not realize it immediately, but fiction plays an important role in shaping society’s narratives of the design of nature’s future, both positively and negatively. This importance of fiction is not meant to undermine that of news outlets, as those are helpful for showing a broad audience current technologies…

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The World Outside

David Kohler
September 2, 2017
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My whole life, I have always felt more comfortable being out, surrounded by nature, than being downtown in a city. For me, going into nature is like getting away from the world of worries and responsibilities. It’s a release—where nothing else matters outside of the trail I’m hiking or the…

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