The Sustainability Principle
 of Energy

 

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The Power of Symbols

What is a Prime Symbol?

Variations on the Wisdom Of Confucius

How to Conserve
the Potential

The Human Condition

General Theory

Practical Application

Index of Denial/Acceptance

The Joys in 
Acceptance
Are you vulnerable to denial?
Review Call
Evaluate your
teachers /media
The Compassionate Curriculum
 
Defining some Prime Symbols

Energy

Energy Efficiency

Power

Electricity

Greenhouse

Warming/Cooling

Science

Information

Carbon

Atmosphere

Climate Change

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Trace

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Sustain
Environment
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Conservation 
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This website is devoted to revealing the essence of energy so humanity may thrive and our daily lives be filled with wonderment and awe. 
It is a labour of love, dedicated to our children.

ENERGY !?
(A cartoon exploration -Chapter Six)

Preamble: 

The survival of human kind provides good reason to explore the potent nature of climate processes An even greater reason is that the journey of exploration may well open us to amazing and wonderful experiences of existence.

We face major challenges along the way, perhaps none as extraordinary as those created by the ego that resides in each of us. This element of our psyche plays a pivotal role in determining our perceptions and is characterised by both an abhorrence of notions of mortality and an incredible, ingenious capacity for self-deceit. It is well capable of generating vast, sophisticated rationales of denial of change/stewardship and can easily make us our own worst enemy. Smile.


Chapter Six asks whether this hilarious and tragic behaviour is manifest in the current belief that Earth's atmosphere is a a giant greenhouse. Could it be that this belief system blinds us to more sustainable ways of understanding the complex, vital thermodynamics of the airs of our planet? Indeed could it be that the Greenhouse religion facilitates the dangerous excesses of the Industrial Revolution?

Enjoy.

ENERGY !?


Chapter Six:  The Ego and Greenhouse Earth

 

 

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Chapter Seven -The Ego and Power explores the relationship of the ego with the "power" symbol as a prelude to exploring the relationship of the ego with the "energy efficiency" symbol.

Some of the great 19 Century greenhouses of Europe. 
Trees were planted outside and inside No 1, the Crystal Palace, so as to be diminished in scale by the man-made structure.
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1 Britain 2 Denmark 3 Belgium 4 France 5 Italy 6 Russia

Samples of modern images of  "greenhouse Earth"

These two top ranking education sites exhibit a common reason given for associating the processes of Earth's atmosphere with those of a greenhouse: we have no choice because everyone else does. Thus a cycle of non-science is perpetuated in our culture.

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http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/greenhousegases.html

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What are “greenhouse gases?” The transparent windows of a greenhouse (or a car parked in the sunlight) transmit the warming visible rays of the sun, prevent the resulting warm air from leaving, and hence maintain a warmer environment inside than outside the structure. In the Earth’s atmosphere, some trace gases absorb infrared radiation from the solar-warmed surface of the planet and transfer energy to the many other surrounding molecules. The result is Earth’s temperatures higher than they would be in the absence of these gases. The atmospheric gases and a greenhouse work in quite different ways, but the resulting effect, higher temperature in both cases, has led to the nomenclature “greenhouse gases” for the atmospheric gases responsible for the atmospheric warming effect. Although this nomenclature is misleading, it is in such common use that we use it here as well.

 

http://www.realscience.org.uk/science-discussion-climate-change-clouds.html

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Let's take a look how energy from the sun warms the Earth - and what it's got to do with greenhouses.

It's all about the greenhouse effect, right?

Well yes. Just one thing though. The greenhouse effect hasn't a lot to do with greenhouses.

Scientists used to think it did. That's how the effect got its name. But we now know that the picture on the left doesn't tell the true story of how a greenhouse works.

All that visible light passing through and infra-red getting trapped is the greenhouse effect all right. But it's not what makes a greenhouse work. So bit of a bad name. But we're stuck with it now.

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Rev George Clayton, [Three] Sermons on the Great Exhibition.

Sermon III: ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVANTAGES CONNECTED WITH THE GREAT EXHIBITION

QUOTE (at end of sermon)
...Ah, there lies the mighty difference. "Here we have no continuing city;" nothing is stable, nothing abiding. Soon shall the Palace of Glass be demolished, and all its pomp and splendour fade from the view, and be as though it had never been. But there you have a tabernacle that shall never be taken down — a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. The felicity will be perfect, and permanent as perfect; and on the whole scene, so complete, so enduring, ETERNITY will place its crown.

Whither are you travelling? Where is the place of your rest? What is your final home? Can you say, "We, according to this promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness?" "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you — and where I am there also shall my servant be!" May all who hear, and all who may read these pages, find a seat prepared for them in that Palace of the Skies, through the merit and grace of the Divine Intercessor. Amen.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/1851/clayton.html

 

 

 


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Updates and Additions

21 June 2013
REVIEW: 350.org Do the Maths
Reflections on Bill McKibben's show in Wellington and why Bill is a genius.

 

18 May 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter five -The Ego and Global Warming
Our confusion of warming with warming up deprives us of a wonderful, vital dimension of the thermodynamics of the universe(s).

 

16 April 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter four -The Ego and Potential Energy
Our estrangement from the universal potential by our division of kinetic energy from potential energy.

 

5 March 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter three -The Ego and Forms of Energy
The grand confusion of forms and perspectives of energy.

 

26 Jan 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter two -The Ego and the Conservation Principle of Energy

The incredible inconvenience of this great principle.

 

8 Jan 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter one -Introducing The Ego and Energy
A cartoon exploration of our psychology and the the nature of energy.

 

 

22 Sept 2012

The Sustainability Principle of Energy
 and 
The Compassionate Curriculum.


(An Illustrated Essay - A brief Historical Overview)

 

 

 3 August 2012

Towards a sustainable education system

A graphic comparison of the New Zealand Curriculum Framework with the Compassionate Curriculum Framework with brief comment

 

31 January 2012

A Practical Guide to Enjoying True Hope

An essay exploring how the great principles of physics can help identify false hope and enable the experience of sustaining hope.

 

5 October 2011

"An Orwellian Climate"

Letters to Australasian Chief Science Advisors explaining contemporary confusion in climate care communication (Prof Peter Gluckman, Prof Ian Chubb, Prof Tim Flannery, Dr Andrew Glikson ) 

 

15 September 2011

The 2011 New Zealand Election Campaign

(A letter to New Zealand people alerting them to the dangers of the huge hidden yet in-your-face advertising campaign promoting the sale of our national assets.)

 

16 March 2011

Thought Experiments re the Carbon Trading Ethos

(Originally designed for the Office of the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.)

 

26 February 2011

Letter to Radio NZ

(Contains  reflections on broadcasts and ratings of the sustainability of a wide range of its programmes.)

 

29 November 2010 
The Joy in the Art of Civics

(Brief reflections on this state of being and the dangers of Environmental Education)

 

24 November 2010

Celebrating Our Climate   
(Draft one: A climate education framework founded in the Sustainability Principle of Energy offering an alternative vision of how we can communicate the role of humans in Earth's climate processes.) 

 

13 October 2010

Conversation with NZ Minister of Education (Anne Tolley) re the sustainability of the national education system. Read the Minister's letter and reflections on the flaws inherent in the Education Ministry's response.

 

4 November 2010

Letter to the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Introduction to the Sustainability Principle of Energy  with discussion of the nature of science.

 

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