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Comment on How do you feel about nuclear power? by citizen joe smith on nuclear power | Pop Theory

citizen joe smith on nuclear power | Pop Theory — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:39:05 +0000

[...] colleague at the OU, Joe Smith, has a couple of interesting posts here and here challenging us on how to think about the implications of nuclear crisis in [...]

Comment on Power down the nuclear safety argument please? by citizen joe smith on nuclear power | Pop Theory

citizen joe smith on nuclear power | Pop Theory — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:38:48 +0000

[...] colleague at the OU, Joe Smith, has a couple of interesting posts here and here challenging us on how to think about the implications of nuclear crisis in [...]

Comment on Frankenstein – now that IS a play about climate change by Noises off: When is ‘relevance’ not relevant? | Hopenhagen2009

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:23:47 +0000

[...] problem can be found in plays that, ostensibly, have nothing to do with the issue. He links to this blogpost by Joe Smith, a senior lecturer in environment at the Open University, and one of the organisers of the [...]

Comment on Frankenstein – now that IS a play about climate change by Noises off: When is ‘relevance’ not relevant? | The Environment Syllabus

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:57:41 +0000

Comment on Frankenstein – now that IS a play about climate change by Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:00:38 +0000

Morning G
THanks for this. Yes although I think we are in interesting times of change in *some* of those fields. I’ll be at Ecobuild in ten days and that is a fascinating index of pretty fast movement in the built enviro sector. But yes, we could do with more and faster. And most of them are only doing that because of legislation.

Comment on Frankenstein – now that IS a play about climate change by Gordon Smith

Gordon Smith — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:21:06 +0000

Man will create, man will admire his own creation, man generally resists criticism (e.g. Artists, bankers and Architects) of his all too obvious flaws. The crux is how to motivate for a richer but less consuming/environmentally bruising future.
The ‘environment’ may be a poor choice for the topic of a play whereas Frankenstein perhaps underlines the blindness of the genius/expert. It is noticeable how few Architects/Engineers/Educationists/Financiers/Scientists/Physiologists (and so forth) are actually deconstructing their own ‘fields’. Building is inherently wasteful, engineering mostly involves using new ‘expensive resources, education does not teach ‘optimisation’ or ‘using less’ across the syllabus, ever heard of a financier saying ‘this will make less money but it is the right thing to do’ and when did ‘the mind mechanics’ join campaigns as how to encourage people to behave in a different way? t