sustainability
Toby Hemenway on Permaculture: Reaching Beyond Sustainability
This week’s Deconstructing Dinner podcast featured a fantastic talk by Toby Hemenway on agriculture systems and permaculture. While we speak about sustainability as an alternative to the currently implemented degenerative systems, what we really need to talk about are regenerative systems. Toby says, “If you ask how a marriage is going and you answer that [...]
at last, a realistic vision of the future
The men of affairs who treat the arts as amenities and dismiss philosophies as worthless abstraction, spend their workdays unknowingly mouthing the words of dead philosophers and acting out poems they have not read on the stage of current events. – John Michael Greer If industrial society turns out to have been little more than [...]
UBC’s focus on sustainability
One of my favorite things about going to UBC is the overall campus wide focus on issues of sustainability. The significant focus on mass transit accessibility and sustainability in the curriculum has been very impressive. UBC still has a long way to go though. As witnessed by the recent battle between the UBC Farm and [...]
what I struggle with when I consider a career in clean energy technologies…
…is Jevons’ Paradox. From a recent post on The Oil Drum, In his 1865 book “The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-Mines,” English economist William Stanley Jevons made the observation “Of the Economy of Fuel” that when improvements in technology make it possible to [...]
just one of the reasons I’m going to UBC
from a recent email about Graduate Student Orientation, As a sustainable campus, we encourage you to bike, walk, bus or carpool to orientation activities.
