Verification notes, Walking everywhere
Slì. Hope that’s the right expression, Irish. I’ve just been to Stockholm, Sweden, to cover a pump company. They have laid out (according to the Irish Slì) several walking trails about 10 km long. These are laid out in attractive parts of the city to encourage people to take long walks and preserve cardiac fitness.
I have not yet come across conscious use of design principles to enable people to walk, it seems that city planning more encourages use of the motor car.
End of verification notes, Walking everywhere.
Thursday, July 03, 2003
Verification notes: Biogas and recycling of organic waste.
These methods are being tried today. Negative effects include bad smells polluting the neighbourhood.
The compost, produced a by-product of the process, shows unacceptable quality variations. Farmers reject it due to risks it might contain glass or metal shards that could harm cattle.
End of Verification notes, Biogas.
These methods are being tried today. Negative effects include bad smells polluting the neighbourhood.
The compost, produced a by-product of the process, shows unacceptable quality variations. Farmers reject it due to risks it might contain glass or metal shards that could harm cattle.
End of Verification notes, Biogas.
Saturday, June 21, 2003
Reflections: Culture is the key to ecologically sustainable societies
The impulse from the last visit pointed to how young people will automatically learn to survive in the environment they grow up in.
By environment I guess you could mean
CLIMATE
PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS
VALUES
HISTORY
LIFE STYLE
IDEAS
SOCIETAL FRAMEWORK OF LAWS, RULES etc
PRAXIS
To me, all of these things spell culture.
Which brings me to my next observation…
To judge the sustainability of a society you need to analyse its culture.
OR to put it another way, sustainability, surviving on Earth, is a matter of CULTURE, not technology.
Evolution of culture is the key to survival, not technology in itself.
Neither is evolution of economic models based on market forces the key.
Factors to analyse would include
- The stress factors, and how much they promulgate footprint-increasing behaviour.
- The learning environment of children, in exposing them to natural systems.
- Value systems, emphasis placed on footprint reducing behaviour.
- Biosphere and technosphere separation.
- How the basic tenants of Porena Culture were spread.
- How the basic tenants came about.
It also means that technological developments will not drive sustainability alone. Woven into cultural development they will proliferate.
Now..how does cultural development get driven towards sustainability?
Good question, and the object of future journeys.
End Reflections: Culture is the key to ecologically sustainable societies
The impulse from the last visit pointed to how young people will automatically learn to survive in the environment they grow up in.
By environment I guess you could mean
CLIMATE
PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS
VALUES
HISTORY
LIFE STYLE
IDEAS
SOCIETAL FRAMEWORK OF LAWS, RULES etc
PRAXIS
To me, all of these things spell culture.
Which brings me to my next observation…
To judge the sustainability of a society you need to analyse its culture.
OR to put it another way, sustainability, surviving on Earth, is a matter of CULTURE, not technology.
Evolution of culture is the key to survival, not technology in itself.
Neither is evolution of economic models based on market forces the key.
Factors to analyse would include
- The stress factors, and how much they promulgate footprint-increasing behaviour.
- The learning environment of children, in exposing them to natural systems.
- Value systems, emphasis placed on footprint reducing behaviour.
- Biosphere and technosphere separation.
- How the basic tenants of Porena Culture were spread.
- How the basic tenants came about.
It also means that technological developments will not drive sustainability alone. Woven into cultural development they will proliferate.
Now..how does cultural development get driven towards sustainability?
Good question, and the object of future journeys.
End Reflections: Culture is the key to ecologically sustainable societies
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