http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35821914 Bhutan instituted Gross National Happiness as its measure of societal progress in the 1970s. GNH is assessed by nine factors that contribute to happiness; psychological well-being, physical health, work-life balance, community vitality and social connection, education, cultural preservation, access and diversity, environmental sustainability, good governance, and material well-being. I think this is a fantastic example of the kind… Read more »
3/9/16 As I was looking over TED Talks videos I might find interesting, I came across one with the title “Why I’m a weekday vegetarian”. Becoming a weekday vegetarian is self explanatory, and also serves as a compromise between becoming a vegetarian but not giving up meat as well. Once I read that, I was immediately reminded of the action group focused on the… Read more »
While clearly a debated topic in environmental and geological sciences, it is interesting to see a source like Forbes address such a topic. Usually focused on business, economics, finance, and technology, the Forbes writer seems to loosely cling to the idea that this “Anthropocene” debate has widespread and far-reaching ramifications. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomzeller/2015/03/11/you-are-an-epoch-defining-the-anthropocene/#31657db04848 One of the most interesting and striking comments in… Read more »
I really found this entry to be interesting to reflect on, and I wanted to share it with everyone! 3/4/16 Looking over my notes for Vibrant Matter, I took special interest in what I found interesting in Chapter 2. Within the first couple of pages, Spinoza makes the says that “the power of a body to affect other bodies includes a… Read more »
“Real Home” Before watching the movie home, from my perspective all I imagined about h ome was the warmth of family and an apartment building in Korea. However this perspecti ve changed after watching the movie “Home”. The real home after all was this planet earth that billions of us reside in. This planet provides us the platform for… Read more »
When I was reading Jane Bennett’s book I found it intriguing because she mentions materialism and her views on it. I would like to say that since capitalism is the greatest economic creation in history … I find it only logical to way to accumulate as much wealth as one possibly can while they are alive. I think there is… Read more »
February 17th, Today we had small group discussions about varying political theory topics, and I was in a group talking about agency and its relation to the anthropocene. The biggest topic that my group discussed was how individual agency matters significantly less than collective agency. Politicians often talk about policies regarding environmental change as a collective action for all of… Read more »
January 25th Today, we watched a video titled Space Monkeys. It showed a test monkey that was sent into space, and the video depicted his arrival back to Earth. He touches down in the middle of an urban city, but devoid of life of any sort. The way I interpreted this was that life on Earth has ended, and the… Read more »
As we know, My group and I (Star Viewing) went to the UW Planetarium and collaborated with Dave Ingram. As a group, we held an educational event on the effects of light pollution on the Night Sky. Through this action group project we learned a lot about how we as humans, in the Anthropocene may be responsible for disrupting our… Read more »
I often find that when I need a break, what I’m really needing is being outdoors. Which for me serves as a break from the stress and routine of a collegiate life. A friend told me recently, “You should do your homework on your front porch!”, as if the ability to just breathe “fresh air” is that easily achieved. However, I… Read more »
