(April 23, 2016 at 2:57 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Integrating technology with nature is smart, as is working in harmony with nature rather than in opposition to it where possible. The earth-sheltered building designs you mentioned are excellent examples. They aren't useful in all climates but they would be terrific where I live: Phoenix, AZ USA. Summer cooling costs could be reduced dramatically and winter heating eliminated altogether.
I guess the sun there is such a big advantage. Coming from a desert land myself, I just appreciate the landscape of the state -even though seeing it only on google images & wikipedia ><-, but being rich in plants + sunlight, with a decent average temperature, something great could become out of it.
Trees absorb heat and solar energy can generate the proper cool whether needed to survive, I don't know about heat though..that would be a problem
Wyrd of Gawd
The price of climbing up the industrial ladder so fast.
Nice, clean guys finish last indeed..
Rhondazvous
I can say it's a pit full of snakes; so everybody are on their high horses (or let's say tigers), because coming down means too many snake bites, and to make the tiger immune, more money & pollution is payed; but the tiger would eventually fall, along with the knight...and that would be the heritage of atomic weapons and decades of military spending..
The leaders know, and the people are asleep, enjoying blind hate and celebrity news, ignoring the upcoming disaster.
Abris
Ah, and this..I really shouldn't stress on it that much, the medical field for example did grow so big, and reliefed people of so many problems, but new health came with the industrial era too..
An integration of the industrial age with nature though, is something new, yet familiar..we still get to keep our high-tech (maybe even higher tech?); at the same time we get to live a healthy lifestyle, along with saving our planet.
Anomalocris
Ew!
That ego ! you should've warned me so I put my mask on before reading that!
So full of yourself >< ancients worship Zeus, you worship flags, potato, potato, cats, kittens, ummmm..
Now I ask you: all you have, is bragging about going to the moon, based on the theories and science the ancients contributed to so much?
Btw, zero is an ancient indian invention, rockets are an ancient Chinese invention too.
mh.brewer
By our own hands, I assume..
Martian Mermaid
Limiting our freedom, so we smell some fresh air..That's the same excuse all dictator regimes use to get to you, first let me save the environement by "collecting regular taxes from you", tomorrow it's "you have to pay a fee for saving pinguins in the arctic !", eventually it will be "join the military".
Kosh
I believe there would be a room for everybody, if we just learned to share and give, instead of applying nationalism, and isolating each other inside our little societies, each proud with a piece of colored cloth, and few pennies.
