She'd probably also like The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. Maybe, maybe not. There's 4 of those. I loved those when I was a kid too. ----- Original Message ----- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Massive Change 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 ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Massive Change Date: 4/16/05 10:29:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: I loved that book when I was a kid ----- Original Message ----- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:02 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Massive Change 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. ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Massive Change Date: 3/27/05 10:54:04 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _mccreery@xxxxxxxx (mailto:mccreery@xxxxxxx) To: _ANTHRO-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:ANTHRO-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) , _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: The latest update to my ongoing series on bestoftheblogs.com. =========== _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. 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