Group projects will never be simple. The convergence of bright minds will without a doubt clash and merge in new and different ways. Our project was never perfect, but I would not trade perfection for the personal growth and group development. Looking back I believe that my first action project idea lacked the meaning and depth that I ended up… Read more »
My main takeaway from our class is that I have a lot left to learn. I was waiting throughout this course to hit a point of understanding, an epiphany that would reveal to me just what it meant to be a human in the Anthropocene. What do we have to do to reverse this? What responsibilities have we incurred and… Read more »
Eco Villages support an interesting solution to climate change, a massive scale down of our current lifestyle. Eco Villages take us back to our roots in the land and create smaller scale societies where environmental efficacy is paramount. As Professor Litfin delved into her studies of eco villages I was struck by the still vast differences in the villages consumption… Read more »
Roy Scranton is no doubt the catalyst for existential crisis within many minds. He uses the shock factor of imminent death to convey coming to terms with our own demise. Arguing that we have to accept societal death in order to survive, Scranton is pushing for a redefinition of American Culture. The capitalist habitat we have come to love and… Read more »
Sitting 11,000 feet above sea level I realized how people affect me. Perched in front of a Buddhist monastery in the village of Upper Pisang, along the Annapurna Circuit Trek, in the Nepalese Himalaya I found my collectivist agenda. While I sat at this ramshackle monastery thousands of feet in the air, two Russian travelers sat beside me…. Read more »
