Thought Provoking Entropy | 18 Jun 2010
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.—-Emerson A question worth asking is: Can we afford the same slow shift on ecology as has been happening with human equality? Pl read this provocative & persuasive essay by Anurag Behar Groundwater and equality. As a schoolboy I spent many of my summer [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 29 Sep 2009
Greenwashing is a term that is used to describe the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or services. Greenwashing was coined by suburban NY environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, in an essay regarding the hotel industry’s practice of placing green placards in each [...]
“If poems touch our full humanness, can they quicken awareness and bolster respect for this ravaged resilient earth we live on?” writes Stanford professor of English John Felstiner in Can Poetry Save the Earth? As we hover on the environmental point of no return, Felstiner argues that poetry may have a singular capacity to return [...]
Architecture & Design Entropy | 10 Apr 2009
Pl read this a fascinating feature on paradigm shift of Designs in economic crisis by Allison Arieff in New York Times.. At its heart, design is about problem-solving, but it’s also about problem-identifying. Instead of creating a need for things, designers can now focus on responding to things we do need. We may have never [...]
Architecture & Design &Globalisation Entropy | 22 Mar 2009
Worldchanging.com is enlightening website to explore.. We all need to be aware and contribute our bit for the cause of our own future and planet .. Our things define us. What we buy, what we use, what we keep and throw away, what we waste, and what we save: the stuff that surrounds us and [...]
Globalisation &Life &Nature Entropy | 19 Aug 2008
The recent passing away of Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, led me to connect and reproduce the this under noted article , which was published in Oct 2007 Orion Magazine . Fukuoka was the author of ‘‘The One Straw Revolution,’’ The heart [...]