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Monthly Archives: September 2020
Designing with Emotion
This past class I really found the concepts and TED talk very interesting. Kansei Engineering, or emotional engineering, is something that I have never heard of before this class. Although the reading this week was somewhat confusing to me, I … Continue reading
yoga is totally recommended.
This week, we discussed sustainability and poverty in class. Our pre-assignment before we came to class was to read an article about the topic of how poverty may affect the environment and reflect on it. I was assigned to the … Continue reading
A poor world.
This week I felt as though I contributed a lot to the learning community in regard to recent course topics and in breakout sessions. More often than not, most people in the breakouts don’t want to speak up very much, … Continue reading
Can We Use Fashion Towards Poverty?
Fashion just by itself automatically has a negative connotation towards the environment. Trends happen so quick now, they just simply seem wasteful and unmeaningful. We saw that in past readings, that fashion could actually be essential to solving environmental degradation, … Continue reading
Poverty Has Multiple Personalities and None of Them are Pretty.
This past week consisted of an interesting topic about poverty and what how it is a wicked problem. Poverty is a wicked problem because of the many solutions it requires and because of the many different or unique approaches … Continue reading
Seven Years
“On Saturday at 3:20 p.m., messages including “The Earth has a deadline” began to appear on the display. Then numbers — 7:103:15:40:07 — showed up, representing the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds until that deadline.” — The New York … Continue reading
The Power of Mindfulness
This past week I have begin to spend more time practicing mindfulness. I first begin practicing for about 5 minutes every day and noticed a small difference, so I took on the challenge to fit meditating in every day for … Continue reading
Poverty: Can the Cycle be Broken?
This last week we discussed the connection between poverty and environmental degradation. I read the Yes article and found what the author said to be logical. In our learning communities, my group elaborated on this point, talking about the lack … Continue reading
Poverty, is it a choice?
This past week has been extra stressful for me. I felt like I was loaded down with work and my schedule did not seem to have any time for me to have some relaxation. I am hopeful that this week … Continue reading
Finding Peace In Hard Times
This past week I have learned more about wicked problems specific to my major and my future career path. My group and I started to dig deeper into the problem of energy usage in commercial buildings and the effects that come … Continue reading
My Sustainability Journey 