Designing Nature's Futures

Life in Ecotopia continues to amaze me every day that I am here. Whether it be the mindsets of the people, the high-speed eco-friendly transportation, or the technology, it is incredible how far this society has come.   The difference in the people here really stand out. Everyone is so…

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…

Introduction/Abstract: Sports is a major form of entertainment all over the world that affects our lives in numerous ways. Whether its participating in a sport ourselves or watching our favorite team, sports has become a fundamental part of our culture. Every year, the world engages as the great sports tournaments…

After reading through the sections of The World We Made, I found that it was still lacking in some of the specifics regarding a cultural shift towards sustainability, the role of entertainment in this new world, or of the lifestyle of those in a “share economy”. Other sections definitely support…

At the beginning of the fall 2017 semester, I shared with Amanda a dystopian science fiction story I had been writing about environmental pollution and disease. In this story, women were becoming barren or were giving birth to deformed children, and given this rapid fall in human births, an apparatus…

November 26. I’ve been invited to visit the country of Ecotopia by the higher-ups in Washington. I’m instructed to fly to the edge of the territories, somewhere in Nevada, and complete three months of observation while living in San Francisco. I’m to publish an article analyzing my experiences. Ecotopia has been…

The midterm paper made me think critically about something that I have spent a lot of time doing in the last two years. I was surprised how difficult it was to grasp the overall goal and summarize the goals of the organization I created. For my final paper, I am…

For my final project, I am diving deeper into permaculture. More specifically, I plan to write about how Hawaiʻis traditional environmental knowledge was used to create a sustainable society and what it might take to go back to this in modern times tying in the ethics and guiding principles of…

As inspired by the documentary seen in class, the research paper component of my final project will be an investigation into permaculture. I will first provide a more explicit and thorough description of the permaculture ideology, specifically its three ethics and twelve guiding principles. From there, I plan to position…

For my final project I would like to go further in depth on my midterm project about creating a sustainable city in New York City. One of the things I struggled with in that paper was deciding whether or not I wanted to go into detail on a few changes,…