Blake Conant and I worked on a promotion campaign for a future photovoltaic system on the UGA bookstore. We were charged to think of ways to engage the student public in solar energy and inform them of its campus potential. Here are some of the ideas we came up with for the campaign visuals.
We also researched and proposed the use of a Lucid Dashboard system powered by existing Automated Logic metering. This scalable system would highlight and bring transparency into the Campus energy use while offering strategies and accountability for energy savings. Our full report can be viewed below.
Self-perspective. We are challenged to perform in our jobs, in our marriages, friendships, academics, social circles and all the like. So much is processed in a day that our mind have a hard enough time digesting summations, much less relaying details to be considered by the heart, mind and soul. A journal seems to be the landing point for all that is today but has value for tomorrow. Looking back on even a normal day's journal entry offers perspective. We can't remember it all and our reactions to events are often short-lived or easily distracted. Life is mayhem, a bunch of disconnected events that do infect correlate in a highly complex network of purpose. Writing down events and responses might mean nothing to the current state of mind, but could be the defining factor for what lies ahead or what needs advice. Daily perspective offers a roadmap to how I got to where I am and suggests roads to future decisions linked to wisdom. These are my thoughts about nature. May they inform and direct my future interactions with it.
Sometimes this word gets thrown around with so much academic and haughty baggage is seems unethical to debate a word in such a way. Can we define it as simple as "doing what is right, even when no one is looking." It might not hit on all that the word means but it gives a great place to start. Sometimes I think we debate too much on what is ethical rather than just doing what is right. We make too much of what is right and wrong with little regard to common sense. Religion aside. Politics aside. In fact, put it all aside and determine whether your course of action will have a positive or negative effect on those involved, including the inanimate and unvoiced. Sometimes our delay in discussing ethics prevents ethical action. Maybe it is childish naivety that I will grow out of, but it seems more simple than scholars portray. I've probably said too much.
Today I got the all-clear from the doctor to no longer wear a cast or brace for my wrist. Free at last! I was giving my CT scan and watched it today. Pretty amazing technology. You can see the screw appear about half way through.
Enjoyed a field trip to a local Watkinsville farm. The greatest takeaway from the afternoon was the awesome twist of words that might offend some. According to his words, the farmer "grows" turkeys or cows or chickens. For me, this is a complete understood worldview. The man works on a daily basis providing grass, water, vitamins, healthcare to those animals for the pure undivided purpose to feed!
Maybe it is his own self, his own family, selling to a local restaurant but his livelihood and his own life are wrapped in the reality that animals are indeed "grown." It might seem insensitive to put a living cow on the same level of a dusty potato. This farmer invests thousands in what will bring him thousands. To me, it is a equal and respectable trade. A life for a life, sustenance for sustenance. His operation is the epitome of humane. He provides opportunity for life to come onto his vegetated fields, and he determines the time for it to be removed.
In my own worldview, the creator always has the right to reclaim his creation. With the power of creation, one is responsible to be a creator and not a killer. Enter ethics. Enter sustainability. Enter purpose.
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