alternatives

Posted on June 29, 2007 by jamie

more and more the world is waking up to realize that we need to be responsible, and think of alternatives in order to preserve the earth. unlike canada and the usa, many countries are actually putting these ideas into practice instead of just yabbering about them. politicizing environmental sustainability makes me sick. but on to better and brighter things; let’s see what our neighbours are doing:

Australia: implemented a “Building Greenhouse Rating” scheme that helps reduce energy use and greenhouse emissions

Sweden: turning confiscated smuggled alcohol into biofuel

Nairobi: works toward food sovereignty by conserving seed and enhancing traditional organic systems of agriculture

Germany: Architectural Green Solar Network

England:promoting the use of wind power in and around the UK, both onshore and offshore

on blogging and such

Posted on June 28, 2007 by jamie

this evening i have decided to take a more involved approach to my blogerness. many things brought me to this decision, some of which are:

- today i was going through and updating my field journal for the archaeology field school. its pretty amazing what you can forget in a couple days. its even more amazing how much information you can keep (remember?) when you write for 20 minutes each day.

- my dad and mom are on a road trip right now and mom keeps updating her facebook profile with photos from each day. i find myself thinking about them and anticipating the days photos throughout my day.

- lately i have been thinking about my blog, wondering if it is too public. wondering why i would want the world to know what i am up to. but is blogging (although public) really for the public? or is it kind of a log of ideas and memories that one can use to reflect on the past, make decisions for the future, and evaluate successes in ones own life?

mom and dad are in new york right now. today they visited MoMA. they were able to see so many crazy works from some pretty super star artists…. just looking at mom’s photos inspires me.

i think i want to explore form and function more. when frank lloyd wright talked about organics in 1908 it ment something. i am afraid that we have perverted the word these days. he talked about respect for materials and the harmonious relationship between form and function… why are we now always trying to forceÂ things (nature, people, objects,Â etc?) into boxes of idealized catagories? this product must come in a plastic, squeezable, non-drip, hypo-allergenic, yet environmentally friendly (?!?!?) package.

i want to stop being a walking oxymoron.

had to post one more before going to sleep

Posted on June 26, 2007 by jamie

this is awesome….

goodbye, DhRp-52.

Posted on June 26, 2007 by jamie

today the powers that be decided that we were most likely not going to find any pre-historic (that means pre-contact, before the written record) artifacts in our evaluative units at DhRp-52. we finished off our levels this afternoon and will go back on site tomorrow for cleanup and profiling.

goodbye hardhat, goodbye visi-vest, goodbye heavy machinery, goodbye absolute lack of shelter from the elements, and goodbye bureaucratic……. stuff.

but DhRp-52 will always hold a place (albeit a cold, dark corner) in my heart.

insanity

Posted on June 20, 2007 by jamie

little did he know….

watch “stranger than fiction”. just do it.

i saw a shooting star tonight. and had a weird dream today. two naps did i take… a total of six hours of slumber in the sun, and four last night. i should take one more nap this evening before the dig tomorrow.

dig.

little did she know that earth could take so much out of her…..