For new readers
The full story starts back in the archives on the first blog. So off you go...
But here's a synopsis of events so far. I, Max Wahlter, picked up some good creativity techniques at a management seminar. (I'm a journalist covering technology and entrepreneurship.)
Looking to getting my career going in a better direction I decided to try the techniques out to invent sustainable technology and then market it.
The method involves you 'journeying' to a place where these problems have been solved and describing into a tape recorder.
These Blogs are my tapescript and notes.
But. I went to a community living in a sustainable way expecting to see a culture like mine with new ecological technology.
Instead I find a new ecological culture with technology I am familiar with.
And my job is looking even more in danger at the Journal.
I'm feeling a bit at the crossroads, but I'm carrying on trying to understand this community a little better.
Hang in there with me.
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Sunday, May 25, 2003
Monday, May 19, 2003
Reflections
Porena Philosophy.
This is what I have gathered so far. Like my boss says, you have come at something from enough angles to be able to say you understand it. I am not sure I have covered enough angles. Anyway. My description of it, and it is mine I underline again, goes like this:
Porena Philosophy focuses on the organism (described earlier like the part of the human that evolved in the pre-historic times,) making up a community living in the biosphere. By reducing the risk of subjecting the organism to undue stress (that is, outside naturally occurring limits) risk of permanently damaging environmental pressure on the biosphere is minimized. That is to say reducing the risk that the ”footprint” exerted by the human community will not be sustainable.
To take an example in the ascendancy, the organism is so stressed by hunger that the community takes to fishing the seas to the extent that stocks of fish are reduced to a level of possible extinction.
I remember picking up, again not explicitly so I must tread carefully, that there were five main stresses. Let’s speculate.
1) Nutrition
2) Shelter
3) Mechanical
4) Societal, communal
5) Toxic
Which makes me think... how do they get this over to people. And what education system do they have. Must be the subject for one of the next journeys.
Reflections: Societal stress. They say they are going to cut back on staff even more at the journal. I am getting to experience this stress on my organism first hand. Although I know I am good at my job and intellectually know I can get another eventually, I am sure my body is taking the toll. I’m sleeping badly and get pains in my chest occasionally.
And not being able to pay my bills for food and my flat - I’d take a job that poisoned half the rivers.
reflections ends
Porena Philosophy.
This is what I have gathered so far. Like my boss says, you have come at something from enough angles to be able to say you understand it. I am not sure I have covered enough angles. Anyway. My description of it, and it is mine I underline again, goes like this:
Porena Philosophy focuses on the organism (described earlier like the part of the human that evolved in the pre-historic times,) making up a community living in the biosphere. By reducing the risk of subjecting the organism to undue stress (that is, outside naturally occurring limits) risk of permanently damaging environmental pressure on the biosphere is minimized. That is to say reducing the risk that the ”footprint” exerted by the human community will not be sustainable.
To take an example in the ascendancy, the organism is so stressed by hunger that the community takes to fishing the seas to the extent that stocks of fish are reduced to a level of possible extinction.
I remember picking up, again not explicitly so I must tread carefully, that there were five main stresses. Let’s speculate.
1) Nutrition
2) Shelter
3) Mechanical
4) Societal, communal
5) Toxic
Which makes me think... how do they get this over to people. And what education system do they have. Must be the subject for one of the next journeys.
Reflections: Societal stress. They say they are going to cut back on staff even more at the journal. I am getting to experience this stress on my organism first hand. Although I know I am good at my job and intellectually know I can get another eventually, I am sure my body is taking the toll. I’m sleeping badly and get pains in my chest occasionally.
And not being able to pay my bills for food and my flat - I’d take a job that poisoned half the rivers.
reflections ends
Technology Notes journey 4
Flying saucersI see the ecological in these craft. Flying slow (need less fuel, need no road/ rail infrastructure, nature unspoiled)
Failsafe technology (no destruction from crashes)
Growing under glass on the southern wall. Warms up and insulates buildings while providing growing facilities near the house, as well as a nice extra room.
Cassettes. I have seen on sale at garden centers, small mini- greenhouses about the size of a lunch-box with ready-to-plant seeds and dried potting soil. These cassettes seem to be the same idea.
End of Technology Notes Journey 4
Flying saucersI see the ecological in these craft. Flying slow (need less fuel, need no road/ rail infrastructure, nature unspoiled)
Failsafe technology (no destruction from crashes)
Growing under glass on the southern wall. Warms up and insulates buildings while providing growing facilities near the house, as well as a nice extra room.
Cassettes. I have seen on sale at garden centers, small mini- greenhouses about the size of a lunch-box with ready-to-plant seeds and dried potting soil. These cassettes seem to be the same idea.
End of Technology Notes Journey 4
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