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Wednesday, 5 April 06 ::
permaculture and ocw
yep. i'm already reading about where i'll be working in the fall -- all of this opencourseware stuff.. and i do have questions about it.. the whole idea of creating the physical infrastructure needed for all these computers to connect us all. with all the peak oil discussions around my home, and how all these physical infrastructures are created with things that need oil - right? how does all this computing infrastruture fit into that? maybe i'm paranoid, and to be honest, i don't know anything about peak oil, because it is so scary that my head is in the sand.... .... but? i don't know.
and then i wonder, okay, the permaculture people. tell me about permaculture and this whole computing thing. i should talk to rv out at lvec about that. rv is totally down with the permaculture thing. could the permaculture movement benefit from the work happening in the open courseware movement?
seriously though. my mind is in the sand about a lot of things, because they are simply too scary for me to think about. i know that we have to change how we do things. i know that the western model of living is not sustainable for mother earth. i know that the way i live my life is not sustainable to the mother.. and i wonder, i wonder what the ocw folks think about all that. i wonder what their reaction is to peak oil. i wonder. i wonder how all this lovely technology that i love so much fits into the need to save mother earth.
seriously. i love this technology stuff. and i realized the other day that i get to go study with folks who are as interested in using the internet as a tool for connecting and communicating as i am.. in fact, maybe more so. they aren't just geeks getting a high about seeing how geeked out they can be, they are social scientists getting a high on how connected we can be. a little geekly, and a little social. thats like me.
so, that said, hopefully some of these preeminient thinkers have thought about this stuff. luckily for me, i get to work with one of those fellows and a whole lab of folks who are studying this.. so i get to actually ask these folks these questions. and, before i leave home, i can go ask some folks in the permaculture movement the same thing. i can't wait for the answers. hmm.. i hope rv will be out at lvec in a couple of weeks!
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that said. i should go to bed. walking with a friend at 8.30. meeting with the boss at 11am (! ack! do i remember what we're going to talk about?!?). work all day. drinks with a friend at 5.30. xena night at 7. agh. and i still have to do problems for stats, read chapter 2, and then all this other reading and stuff i've been doing. and and and. goddess. yeah. i guess you could say i'm still excited about the usu thing.. but in a couple of weeks i'll go out to the course and stuff will come up and all that good stuff will happen........... ...... ....
posted by brooke at April 5, 2006 11:19 PM
