Education, Technology, and Ecological Literacy by Mackenzie Voots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo Digital Media & Learning - Module 1 Synthesis by Mackenzie Voots en-us 2020-09-12 03:51:06 UTC 2024-11-26 06:33:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f33f.png Ecological Design mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/740796713 Making things that "fit" in the natural world.

Ecological design competence is "incorporating intelligence about how nature works into the way we think, design, build, and live."
- David Orr

Good characteristics of ecological design:
scale, simplicity, efficient use of resources, durability, resilience

Promotes: human competence, efficient use of resources, strong regional economies, social resilience

Check out some of John Todd's Projects... one of which you can visit in Naples, FL! https://www.toddecological.com/projects]]> 2020-09-12 06:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/740796713 Click the document to read more. mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/741377166 Excerpt from Ishmael Pt. I]]> 2020-09-13 01:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/741377166 A Vision for the Future - Excerpt from Ishmael Pt. II mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/741391102 “People need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.”
“Yes. Definitely. Stopping pollution is not inspiring. Sorting your trash is not inspiring. Cutting down on fluorocarbons is not inspiring. Thinking of ourselves in a new way, thinking of the world in a new way [is inspiring.]”

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“You can’t just root out a harmful complex of ideas and leave a void behind; you have to give people something that is as meaningful as what they’ve lost - something that makes better sense than… wiping out everything on this planet that doesn’t serve [our] needs directly or indirectly.”

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“One thing I know people will say to me is ‘Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?’”
“That is of course an inane idea,” Ishmael said. “The Leaver lifestyle isn’t about hunting and gathering, it’s about letting the rest of the community live - and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter gatherers.” He paused and shook his head. “What I’ve been at pains to give you is a new paradigm of human history. The Leaver life is not an antiquated thing that is ‘back there’ somewhere. Your task is not to reach back but to reach forward.”
“But to what? We can’t just walk away 
from our civilization.”
“That’s certainly true. You must be 
inventive - if it’s worthwhile to you. 
If you care to survive.” He gave me a 
dull stare. “You’re an inventive people, 
aren’t you? You pride yourselves on 
that,  don’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then invent.”
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What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth or competitive advantage or anything like that, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival depends. In other words, a sustainable community is designed in such a way that its ways of life (businesses, physical structures, technologies, and social institutions) do not interfere with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.  Now to design such a community obviously we first have to know how does nature sustain life?"

(See videos: Ecological Literacy Part 1. and Part 2.)









]]> 2020-09-13 20:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742144416 Synthesis by Mackenzie Voots - Click the document to read more. mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742567232 2020-09-14 02:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742567232 mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742572719 2020-09-14 02:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742572719 mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742576656 2020-09-14 02:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742576656 mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742582829 2020-09-14 02:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742582829 mjvoots https://padlet.com/mjvoots/kactynwcl3pw3xuo/wish/742591733 "It turns out that this involves a new ecological understanding of life as well as a new kind of thinking in terms of relationships, patterns, and context. Indeed such a new understanding of life has emerged over the last 25 years or so. At the forefront of contemporary science the universe is no longer seen as a machine composed of elementary building blocks. We have discovered that the material world ultimately is a network of inseparable patterns of relationships."











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