Greener Pasture

I've been doing a lot of reading into the environment and sustainable technologies of late, it's really becoming quite the habit of late. I go through periods of intense interest in certain things, some come and go and some really seem to stick around. This seems to be one of the latter. I'm really thinking more and of environmental design as a potential future study. I haven't given up on art, but rather it would be interesting to see how ED it could feed into that. I'm in no shape an engineer or an architect ... but maybe there is a way I could contribute to the field.

I'm reading Geography of Hope by Chris Turner. It's an encouraging read. Rather than hearing about all the approaching environmental Death Star scenario (planet destroying ... like Alderaan - nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!) the book is a guided tour though places in the world where people are coming to together to implement change in how we live, build and consume/generate energy. Through this I've discovered Earthships.

From this, and watching Who Killed the Electric Car (plus a recent doc on TV about the evils of the plastic bag) it becomes evident that there are plenty of people and ideas on how to change how we live on this planet. Certainly no shortage of ideas. Technology too - the technology largely exists now for our species to turn the corner on climate change and environment deterioration. It's really a question of will, particularly political will. When our own government can't be bothered to stand up for Canada and step across the hall to raise a glass of punch to the Canadian scientists who won the Nobel Prize for work on climate change it's troubling.

Sometimes I want to move to Denmark ... or France ... or Norway ... or Germany ... or Iceland ... or Spain ... or de Netherlands.