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

Exponential
Trace

Potential

Compassion

Conserve

Sustain
Environment
Market
Peak Oil
Conservation 
Principle of Energy
Use
Up/Down
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrating Our Climate
A
n Essential Climate Education Framework

 


Introduction 

Some key ideas

Our survival depends on our conserving the potential of our climate symbols.

The Physics of the Breath: it is our power to give all away that enables all to come to us.

The fleeting dances of the clouds are a wonderful reminder of the bounteous nature of the continual universal transformation – all is change. 

Teach the invisible and the visible will teach itself. 

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?  

Our lifestyle is our ultimate lesson to the world.

Communicating Climate Processes - Prime Symbols:  


Breath
– connecting; the most intimate interchange we have with all; 
enabling all living beings

Which inspires in  us the combined senses of:  

 

Change – universal, continual; the essence of existence
and
Stewardship
– compassion for all; conserving the balances
 and flows that sustain us; embracing our civic beings

 

Which in turn opens us to the potential of the following great symbols:


Thermodynamics
– the warmth of existence; 
always changing, continually flowing

 


Trace
– the tiniest of elements, often leveraging massive change, 
the essence of Chaos Theory

 


Gases
– free flowing; spacious; thermally variant

 


Air
– atmosphere; life enabling; rich with chemicals; large capacity
 for thermal convection, small capacity for thermal conduction;
 translucent to ultraviolet; 
average temperature of Earth'surface = minus 18C without air

 


Invisible
– enabling the visible; potent with possibilities; 
a guide to the truth

 

Water - clouds, vapour, oceans, ice; albedo; fast cycling; life enabling; 
dominant Warmer Trace Gas


Sun
– main driver of our climate/weather;
 great force in our lives;

 Note to Teachers  Level 1   Level 2   Level 3  Level 4

 

Page last  updated: Nov 2010

 

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