[lit-ideas] Re: Massive Change
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She (13 yrs. old) does too ....enough to make me read it. It wasn't half
bad, though it left a bunch of stuff hanging. She assures me there's a
sequel.
But it's a decent combination of dangers-of-utopia and metaphysic-psychic
stuff, for that age. My point, though, was a tired and old point. Does an
organized utopia really satisfy human nature? Can it? Should it? I keep
thinking of old stuff like the Overlords book of Clark's and Logan's Run. I
grew
up in a weird age, I suppose, where utopia at the price of uniformity or
enforced perfection was less good than anarchy. The pendulum swung during the
last couple decades. I can't figure, yet, what it's doing now, not having the
vantage of distant perspective.
Julie Krueger
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I loved that book when I was a kid
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There's a kid-book, i.e. a book written geared towards teens, called "The
Giver". I can't recall the author, though I could find it w/out much
trouble.
Although a book stuck in the "juvenile" section of the library, if you read
it (it would take maybe 20 minutes) I wonder how it would interface with
your
post here.
Julie Krueger
force-fed juvenile lit by her middle-schooler who wants to share everything
she loves reading....thank God.
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The latest update to my ongoing series on bestoftheblogs.com.
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_Massive Change_ is a collaboration involving 32 experts from a wide
variety of fields. Beyond the big ideas, this means lots of delightful
details. Here, for example, is architect and designer Michael McDonough
writing about his e-House in upstate New York.
>
> In e-House we collect rainwater to irrigate our garden. We also ue it
> to store energy from sunlight and earth, and that energy isused to
> heat or cool a hyper-energy-efficient house. If you extend this
> thinking to other building systems, you can engineer a geothermal
> field for maximum efficiency by backfilling it with clean,
> well-drained, fertile soil, and get both a heating and cooling source
> for your home and a productive organic garden. The more people start
> doing this community-wide, the more open space and forest can be
> conserved. This, of course, is an alternaive to suburban sprawl. If
> government encourages this tendency through tax policy, you get large
> organic districts with hyper-energy-efficient homes...Imagine that new
> home-building in this vast area [the 1,900 square mile New York City
> watershed] was encouraged to have organic microagricultural uses. New
> York City and its surrounding areas would be tethered to each
> other--clean, pure water from organic watersheds and urban markets for
> local organic produce.
The really good news is that when McDonough built his e-House, he was
able to find everything he needed on the Internet and have it delivered
directly to the site.
Also, as someone whose father planted the bamboo that half-surrounds
the lot of the house in which I grew up, I especially love this
comment,
> I like bamboo a lot. The more you use it, the better things get. It's
> deeply versed in cultures all over the world, it's stronger than steel
> in tension, it's stronger than concrete in compression, and it's more
> stable than red oak, which is a very stable flooring. When you plant
> it, it acts as a bioabsorber, cleaning pollutants out of the soil; it
> simultaneously stabilizes the soil and prevents erosion. While it's
> doing all of these good things, it returns more oxygen to the air
> through photosynthesis than any other deciduous plant.
Utopian vision, sound engineering, respect for nature, too. Why rant
when we can build?
John L. McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama, Japan 220-0006
Tel 81-45-314-9324
Email John.McCreery@xxxxxxxxxxxx
"Making Symbols is Our Business"
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