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free style salsa, John & Malini, Latin Lounge, Byron Bay Australia
Technological innovation surely has solutions that will help advance global sustainability. But apparently education, awareness, and policy can also play a large role in ensuring environmental longevity, particularly with regards to emissions reduction.
We commend you on the 2009 G-8 declaration’s commitment to “support the
development of positive incentives in particular for developing countries to promote
emission reductions through actions to reduce deforestation and forest degradation,” and
to “consider the inclusion of financial mechanisms within the future global agreement on
climate change.” REDD has a significant role to play in making this commitment a
reality. It requires no new technology, but rather policies that acknowledge the value of
forests and by incentivizing their preservation.
The ecologists writing the letter to Obama claim that the tropical deforestation has contributed 15-20% global greenhouse gas emissions annually over the past decade. If a global social consciousness and technological innovation aligns with the power of global policy related to deforestation, we are sure to enhance the progress towards global sustainability we can achieve by the end of the next decade.
Inspired by http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010644.html
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Out of Water Project Aims to Highlight Solutions to Water Issues
21-Oct-09
My undergrad years at Cornell certainly had a largely interdisciplinary focus which flexed my ability to design interaction paradigms, particularly for integrating performing arts and information science. Of the several goals set out for the sustainability related project being led by Communication Ph.D. Megan Halpern, one which is closely related to my interests is the use of both art and science as tools to enhance creative thinking about global sustainability issues. The ‘Out of Water’ project, which started in the University of Toronto and is on display at Ohio State Unviersity, tackles a similar challenge:
The trick is making sure that projects like Out of Water transcend the potentially hermetic worlds of academia and design. This initiative features the kind of interdisciplinary approach of design and science that not only points the way out of our current crisis, but also enables young practitioners to think creatively about how to respond to our most pressing environmental challenges. Nonetheless, it will take the combined will and action of individuals to ground such prescriptions in daily life.
via Worldchanging: Bright Green: Out of Water Project Aims to Highlight Solutions to Water Issues.
Given that we are likely to collaborate with Ithaca’s Science Center, we will be using Megan’s project as an educational tool for building global sustainability awareness among young visitors of the museum, about ages 8-12. Working with such an agree adds another challenge to our project goals. I hope to continue writing about challenge of effectively merging arts, science, and the attention spans of middle-school aged kids into the design of an educational paradigm for sustainability.