Lately, I’ve started actually reading the newspaper again. Every day it is a reminder that I am connected. I picked it up a few days ago, and the recent decision on Net Neutrality hit me. The current administration and our descent into privatization, benefits for corporations, and a very divisive cultural standard upheld by our president, make me question which… Read more »
SashaComments Off on Learning to Accept Interdependence
I came into this course with a very self-centric point of view. I wanted to know what I could do in my life so that I would make a difference and do something good for the world. While my search stemmed from wanting to help others, along the way I somehow forgot about the fundamental interconnectedness of life. I shied… Read more »
isbaumanComments Off on Phone Banking in the Anthropocene
Our action project allowed us to engage with the University of Washington community and to interact with a greater system, the federal government. However, we initially struggled to settle on a project that had an impact on a broad system and was possible to execute within a few weeks. We decided to go back to the basics and expand on… Read more »
JoeComments Off on Red Tape and Vitality: A Group Action Project Reflection
The group action project, encouraging us to embrace agency in the Anthropocene, demanded we engage the greater community in some fashion. While free to shape the project as we pleased, we were asked to incorporate contemplative practices into our work. In groups of about four people, we had nearly a month to complete our projects. For the assignment, I worked… Read more »
WinslowComments Off on Are These Cookies Guilt-Free?
A quick-look at our action project presents mixed results. The issues we chose to direct calls to, the repeal of Net Neutrality and the GOP Tax Plan, are both expected to pass with relative ease despite our group’s opposition. Initially, we set out to help in preventing these two potentially dangerous legislative actions. While we likely won’t succeed in this… Read more »
Food Lifeline volunteers pack and deliver leftover food from restaurants to homeless shelters. My group’s original action project evolved from small-scale to large scale and systemic. After hearing in class about the UW Farm action project, a truly impressive implementation, we realized we could expand the scope of our project from UW campus to the community. We decided to ask… Read more »
MadisonComments Off on Photo Spotlight: Future of Seattle
Having strangers take your photograph is an intimate and often uncomfortable experience. Thus, when Sasha, Kleitia and I were walking through the streets of downtown Seattle clinging to five black and white posters, I was convinced that few people would be willing to participate. Throughout the development of our project, our group continually struggled with the concern that the purpose… Read more »
cbacon16Comments Off on Disillusionment: Seeing the Earth as it Is
Creative Project Link I sought to illustrate “Earth as it is”, and the trajectory on which humanity, and industrialized, individualistic societies in particular, has been on to create and perpetuate our current ecological and social condition. It is our prerogative as members of the global North to become aware of how our obsession with material accumulation and our ignorance of… Read more »
Alex, Willa, Simone, John, and I assembled an informative and interactive website for our action project on the topic of climate refugees. The topic seeks to draws awareness to the interdependent nature of our global system. Climatic crises, caused by Western overconsumption, will displace millions of people in historically exploited areas, to flood countries that enabled their displacement. Ultimately, our responsibility to… Read more »
Throughout the discussion, creation, and implementation of this project, I have learned that taking the things we learn in the classroom and bringing them to the larger community is easier than I thought. I have been worried for a long time about finding the “right” organizations to support and the best career that will not only interest me but… Read more »
