400 Fruit Trees
What I learned about 400 fruit trees is that this is a response to great challenges in climate change. Its about positive opportunities in these challenges such as rebuilding local economies and rebuilding urban food product, and rebuilding a sense of community and a reconnection with nature and the land. It is great to see naturally planted fruit trees because I believe that can help out sustainability in many ways because they our using natural resources very well and also no waist is being used and no toxic fumes is being used and making our planet worse, only better. They really involve the community and schools surrounding the community, I think it is great because they are getting a lot of people involved, and this can be good and used all over the world.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Bryan Ngo: “Part A Conflict”
One technique that I saw was how you have to admit that there is a problem. This really interested me because I hear this a lot on television when the topic is addiction and this topic is similar to that. When admitting there is a problem, that is the very first of this situation is to admitting there is one. Surrendering to the idea that control is an illusion allows one to be proactive rather than reactive which creates opportunity for solution. This really makes sense to me because of the fact how true this is and how it is related to sustainability in so many ways. For example, many people who are not familiar with sustainability do not know we actually have a problem on this earth, they think saving our materials is not needed because everyone will be dead before we lose our materials. But that is not true because our feature is children, and how we treat our planet reflects a lot on how we live it now.
Bryan Ngo: "4.1 Leadership"
The most important things that I have learned about this article is that Brian Bacon was a great pioneer who was also a great leader who developed over 30 corporate turnarounds. And in "Beyond You & Me" book, there was a lot of information that I took and learned a lot from especially the part about how coaching can be applied in an ecovillage. And in ecovillage diversity and democracy among the members is generally honored and even when there is hierarchy, there is more flexibility in who gets to play which role. One goal of mine in the future is to get involved in a solar company that could really save energy on our planet, but also save people lots of money as well. Getting into this, I can be a leader and get more people involved in this, and also help save energy throughout the world.
But doing this, it would take a lot of hard work to achieve this goal because of the fact of having to get the information needed to get across to the customers which I believe is the hardest part because of how sometimes it is hard to get out what you want to do when there is still money involved, I would really have to have a good presentation to show how good this product really is. There would be a lot of barriers involved in starting to do this such as maybe customers not committing to this product and also allies in which there are many different solar companies that offer the same thing, and it would be harder if people are already interested in that product before we could could get a chance to sell ours.
But doing this, it would take a lot of hard work to achieve this goal because of the fact of having to get the information needed to get across to the customers which I believe is the hardest part because of how sometimes it is hard to get out what you want to do when there is still money involved, I would really have to have a good presentation to show how good this product really is. There would be a lot of barriers involved in starting to do this such as maybe customers not committing to this product and also allies in which there are many different solar companies that offer the same thing, and it would be harder if people are already interested in that product before we could could get a chance to sell ours.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Bryan Ngo: "A Virtual Visit to an Ecovillage/Green Education,"
http://ecovillageithaca.org/evi/
The Ecovillage that I chose to do was the ecovillage of Ithaca. I chose this specific ecovillage because it is located in New York, and this is a place that I have never been to and hope to visit at least once in my life and maybe even live for a little bit. After reading about it, I would like to visit this place in New York because it seems like a peaceful place and it has their own lake and it includes co-housing neighborhoods. The thing that intrigued me the most about this place is that it is a growing global movement for a saner and more sustainable human culture. Yes, there are specific aspects of the ecovillage that I would like to incorporate into my lifestyle even if I do not live in an ecovillage in the future because I really want to live in a co-housing neighborhood. The Bachelor of Science from the Green Education link I was most drawn to because of the fact that it was located in the United Kingdom, I find that very interesting.
The Ecovillage that I chose to do was the ecovillage of Ithaca. I chose this specific ecovillage because it is located in New York, and this is a place that I have never been to and hope to visit at least once in my life and maybe even live for a little bit. After reading about it, I would like to visit this place in New York because it seems like a peaceful place and it has their own lake and it includes co-housing neighborhoods. The thing that intrigued me the most about this place is that it is a growing global movement for a saner and more sustainable human culture. Yes, there are specific aspects of the ecovillage that I would like to incorporate into my lifestyle even if I do not live in an ecovillage in the future because I really want to live in a co-housing neighborhood. The Bachelor of Science from the Green Education link I was most drawn to because of the fact that it was located in the United Kingdom, I find that very interesting.
Bryan Ngo: "Beyond You and Me: Reading Response 1"
Reading the preface through page 40 of "Beyond You and Me" I learned a lot about interesting new things. One thing that I really found most interesting and learned was Kitezh three elements of developmental environment. This consist of The foster family, which gives the homeless child that which is most important, namely a sense that he is needed and loved. Then it goes to that this perception is essential if the child is to develop properly. The community of competent adults, which provides the child with a safe environment in which s/he can develop the ability to live and work as part of a collective, and which at the same time recognizes the right of each and every person to their own individuality. And lastly there is the natural environment and the architecture, which benefit the child spiritually, guide him to look for beauty and harmony, reduce psychological distress and provide surroundings that are conducive to therapeutic work. I feel this is important because being a mother is hard itself, and this shows a good way to start a good living for the child and it will help give good ideas for a mother.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Bryan Ngo Questions 1-10
1. T/F culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These shared patterns identify the members of a culture group while also distinguishing those of another group.
(True Module 2.3)
2. What is the 11th hour?
(The 11th Hour is the last moment when change is possible. Module 2.3 <11thhouraction.com/seethefilm>)
3. What are the elements of the larger society that you want embodied in your ecovillage?
(Small group discussion. Module 2.4 pg 13)
4. T/F Part of Listening and Reconnecting with Nature GOALS is developing sensitivity and receptivity to Nature required to do the work of competent and inspired ecovillage designing.
(True. Module 2.4 pg 14)
5. What is the Global Footprint Network?
(Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the ecological footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what. Module 2.5
6. T/F A consequence of reduced economic activity is that from this point forward we will have a surplus of labor.
(True. Module 2.6 pg 4)
7. If you live in a city, is it possible to grow a great deal of food within the city limits?
(Yes, it is possible. Module 2.6 pg 6)
8. What are virtual assets?
(Virtual assets are stocks, bonds, cash and anything with no intrinsic value. Module 2.6 pg 5
9. T/F Hofstede's definition of culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.
(True. Module 2.2 pg 51)
10. What is the symposium designed for?
(The Symposium is designed to accelerate the Great Turning to a just and sustainable world. It awakens us and reconnects us with our place in the web of life. Module 2.3 Awakening the Dreamer
(True Module 2.3)
2. What is the 11th hour?
(The 11th Hour is the last moment when change is possible. Module 2.3 <11thhouraction.com/seethefilm>)
3. What are the elements of the larger society that you want embodied in your ecovillage?
(Small group discussion. Module 2.4
4. T/F Part of Listening and Reconnecting with Nature GOALS is developing sensitivity and receptivity to Nature required to do the work of competent and inspired ecovillage designing.
(True. Module 2.4
5. What is the Global Footprint Network?
(Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the ecological footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what. Module 2.5
6. T/F A consequence of reduced economic activity is that from this point forward we will have a surplus of labor.
(True. Module 2.6
7. If you live in a city, is it possible to grow a great deal of food within the city limits?
(Yes, it is possible. Module 2.6
8. What are virtual assets?
(Virtual assets are stocks, bonds, cash and anything with no intrinsic value. Module 2.6
9. T/F Hofstede's definition of culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.
(True. Module 2.2 pg 51)
10. What is the symposium designed for?
(The Symposium is designed to accelerate the Great Turning to a just and sustainable world. It awakens us and reconnects us with our place in the web of life. Module 2.3 Awakening the Dreamer
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Extra Credit: Blue Planet Hawaii
Reading about Blue Planet Hawaii, I learned a lot of stuff that can benefit the state of Hawaii in the future. Blue Planet Hawaii is starting up a foundation to help save good energy and supplies as much as they can. In this website I see that they show many different types of energy technology that could be used towards the better of our future. I learned how to measure energy, and exactly what the numbers in this signify. "Rigorous definitions of power and energy can be somewhat difficult to present and understand, but a very simple automotive metaphor actually describes these concepts quite clearly in a way that is sufficient for our purposes here: power is the size of your engine and energy is the size of your gas tank." This is very interesting to me because it is very easy to understand.
Another thing that I learned was that the basic unit of electrical power is the watt and virtually all electrical products such as computer and light bulbs. and these are all clearly labeled to how much electrical power they require for operation. In this website there is a lot of useful information that I could take towards my life and bring it to the environment that I live in. And living in Hawaii for about two years, I see the diversity of alternative energy. “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” --Thomas Edison (1847–1931) this is a very important quote that I read and I thought this is a good way to spend money. We need to save our energy for the future because one day we might just run out.
Overall, reading about the Blue Planet Hawaii got me thinking about not only my future but the future to where we live. It is good to care about the environment and where we live and save the resources that we have to live better. We have to be cautious in the way we live our lives and not waist what we have in bad ways. After looking at this website I will try my best to help out any way I can, and for a start, I decided to make a donation to the Blue Planet Hawaii.
Another thing that I learned was that the basic unit of electrical power is the watt and virtually all electrical products such as computer and light bulbs. and these are all clearly labeled to how much electrical power they require for operation. In this website there is a lot of useful information that I could take towards my life and bring it to the environment that I live in. And living in Hawaii for about two years, I see the diversity of alternative energy. “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” --Thomas Edison (1847–1931) this is a very important quote that I read and I thought this is a good way to spend money. We need to save our energy for the future because one day we might just run out.
Overall, reading about the Blue Planet Hawaii got me thinking about not only my future but the future to where we live. It is good to care about the environment and where we live and save the resources that we have to live better. We have to be cautious in the way we live our lives and not waist what we have in bad ways. After looking at this website I will try my best to help out any way I can, and for a start, I decided to make a donation to the Blue Planet Hawaii.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Bryan Ngo "After the Crash"
After seeing this crash course this really changes my view to modify my intended behavior change by being more aware about what is happening in our world today and being more cautious on things I can do to help in any way possible because I feel in our future something drastic will happen if there isn't a change and I find it interesting that we have the technology to better our future but we don't apply them fast enough to do so. In that case changing for the better of our futures is a definite start to solving this problem. Since massive change is upon us, I think all of us need change in our lives such as saving as much resources as we can such as the economy, energy, and environment. And when I think about this, first thing that comes to mind is "recycle" that is one of the most important things to me and it is something I do everyday and try to help as much as I can. If you think about it, it is not hard at all to recycle, all you have to do after you are done with something that you know is something you can be useful, just recycle it, also, you can make some extra cash by doing so. Another big thing about this is saving our energy, in our society, it seems like energy is not being used wisely, and I feel people who have a lot of money and are very wealthy they do not care about saving for the future and just because they have lots of it, they just use it as they please, and with me I try to save as much energy as possible because you never know when that time will come when we are going to need materials after seeing all these drastic times happening all over the world such as New Orleans, Haiti, and even the 911 incident. I just feel people have to be more aware of certain situations and something I learned by taking this crash course.
With the population growing over time, it is beginning to be more important on how we live our lives to better our future. The way I look at it is that there is just so much this earth we live on can take, and there are just so much material that have that could last us forever, and to me, I feel one day no matter what that there will be no more materials left for mankind, but I feel it is up to us as human beings to figure out how long we want our earth to live, I am not saying that this is going to happen soon, I am just saying being prepared for whatever happens is better, especially for generations to come, so our future families can live as good as all of us did. With having to do deal with money, I thought fractional reverse banking was very interesting in how the way it works. With the whole depositing money and having it loaned out to make more money, this really made me learn something, I thought it was weird that if everyone wanted to take out there own money at the same time, it could not be possible because the bank wouldn't have the money because they are allowed to loan out 90% of what you put in. Knowing that, that brings me to believe that, Is my money really safe in the bank? As of right now, yes it is but one day this could be a problem.
This brings up the whole society not saving money towards our future and leading to bankruptcy. With dept, savings, assets, demographics, peak oil, and climate change any one of these can prove economically challenging. I thought it was interesting on the percentage of savings people save all over the world, and in the United States, I thought it was pretty low with less than 10% was saved and in China about 30% was saved and not spent. I believe saving whatever you have, whether it is money, energy, reused materials is always a good idea because you will never know when you will need more of it. I remember when I was 17 years old for a whole year until I was 18 I saved up spare change and put it in this big water jug and then cracked it open because I needed the money for something very important and what came out of it was over 1000 dollars of basically change that I could gather up everyday, I really thought that was amazing. Although after I saved, I never ended up saving like that again, but after taking this crash course I remembered the importance of saving and I want to start doing this again.
After taking this crash course I feel what we should do is entirely up to us. Anyone can talk about what as individuals we can do to help ourselves and our futures as human beings, but it is better to take action for the better. taking this course made me realize a lot of things, and makes me want to better myself as a person to be successful and be more aware about different things, and also help as much as I can and find others that will also do the same.
With the population growing over time, it is beginning to be more important on how we live our lives to better our future. The way I look at it is that there is just so much this earth we live on can take, and there are just so much material that have that could last us forever, and to me, I feel one day no matter what that there will be no more materials left for mankind, but I feel it is up to us as human beings to figure out how long we want our earth to live, I am not saying that this is going to happen soon, I am just saying being prepared for whatever happens is better, especially for generations to come, so our future families can live as good as all of us did. With having to do deal with money, I thought fractional reverse banking was very interesting in how the way it works. With the whole depositing money and having it loaned out to make more money, this really made me learn something, I thought it was weird that if everyone wanted to take out there own money at the same time, it could not be possible because the bank wouldn't have the money because they are allowed to loan out 90% of what you put in. Knowing that, that brings me to believe that, Is my money really safe in the bank? As of right now, yes it is but one day this could be a problem.
This brings up the whole society not saving money towards our future and leading to bankruptcy. With dept, savings, assets, demographics, peak oil, and climate change any one of these can prove economically challenging. I thought it was interesting on the percentage of savings people save all over the world, and in the United States, I thought it was pretty low with less than 10% was saved and in China about 30% was saved and not spent. I believe saving whatever you have, whether it is money, energy, reused materials is always a good idea because you will never know when you will need more of it. I remember when I was 17 years old for a whole year until I was 18 I saved up spare change and put it in this big water jug and then cracked it open because I needed the money for something very important and what came out of it was over 1000 dollars of basically change that I could gather up everyday, I really thought that was amazing. Although after I saved, I never ended up saving like that again, but after taking this crash course I remembered the importance of saving and I want to start doing this again.
After taking this crash course I feel what we should do is entirely up to us. Anyone can talk about what as individuals we can do to help ourselves and our futures as human beings, but it is better to take action for the better. taking this course made me realize a lot of things, and makes me want to better myself as a person to be successful and be more aware about different things, and also help as much as I can and find others that will also do the same.
Bryan Ngo's "About Me"
Hi, my name is Bryan Ngo and I am a 22 year senior and this is my final semester at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I am from San Jose California and my first year at Hilo was in 2008 and the reason why I went here because I was offered a full scholarship to play basketball for this school, so it was an opportunity I just could not refuse. Before UH Hilo I was at a Junior in San Bruno California, which is about an hour away from my home so to go to the school I had to move out to make it easier on myself to play basketball and do as good as I could do in school. So straight out of high school I had to move out and to be honest I was really nervous about this whole situation but it was something I just had to do. But after going through this I can say it was the best thing for me at the time and I would not have changed anything. Throughout high school I was never really a good student in the classroom, I would always just do what it takes just to get by, I can't say I did not try throughout high school, but I think it was just difficult for me even though I could have done better. And when I got to this junior college I did not know what to expect, but I knew it was going to be harder then high school. So my first semester I ended up getting all C's which I was not proud of at all because I felt I did way better then that and after my coach saw how I did he told me that was not going to cut it, he said I'm going to need to try harder and I really felt the same. So the next semester I tried harder in everything I did and the following semester I made the Dean's list which I was so proud of because I've never done that before. And so following that semester I kept that up the next year and I graduated with a 3.4 gpa and ended up getting my Associates Degree which I was so proud of.
So after a very successful year at Skyline junior college, I transferred here at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where I earned a full scholarship to play basketball. And right now I am trying to finish up and earn my degree in communications. But I can say my overall experience was unforgettable because of the fact I got to go to school for free in Hawaii and do what I love to do most is play basketball. During my time here I got to see the most beautiful places, places I thought I would never see by this age. I have been to Kona, Hilo, Honolulu, and I have been to Maui and each place is beautiful in its own way. And I also got to see other states because of traveling with basketball, I've been to Oregon, Washington, Denver, Utah, and all over California because of basketball. I truly can say I enjoyed myself during my two years out there, and I also the people in Hilo treated me very good, I will always remember that. So since this is my final semester of school and I get my degree, and to be honest, I do not know where to go from there, I am at a point in my life where before this, I've been playing basketball and going to school full time and really taking it serious for the past 10 years of my life, and it is going to finally be over. Yes, I am looking forward to what the future has in stored for me, but I am really not ready for that. I really miss those days hanging with my teammates and friends, traveling on airplanes and vans to go to places I have never been before. I am going to miss everything, but one day I am going to look back at it when I get older and say I got to go to school in Hawaii and got to have the time of my life.
My relationship with sustainability is pretty good because I have always been aware of the environment and always cared about what was going on earth. So I try to do what little I can to save our materials so people many years from now can have the same. So recycling is something I do to help, and anything else I could I am very open and would like to help in any way necessary.
From this class I hope to learn a lot more of Sustainability and other ways I can be more apart of this movement and help in other ways. I think this is very important for futures and families and will need the learning ability to know what is going on.
So after a very successful year at Skyline junior college, I transferred here at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where I earned a full scholarship to play basketball. And right now I am trying to finish up and earn my degree in communications. But I can say my overall experience was unforgettable because of the fact I got to go to school for free in Hawaii and do what I love to do most is play basketball. During my time here I got to see the most beautiful places, places I thought I would never see by this age. I have been to Kona, Hilo, Honolulu, and I have been to Maui and each place is beautiful in its own way. And I also got to see other states because of traveling with basketball, I've been to Oregon, Washington, Denver, Utah, and all over California because of basketball. I truly can say I enjoyed myself during my two years out there, and I also the people in Hilo treated me very good, I will always remember that. So since this is my final semester of school and I get my degree, and to be honest, I do not know where to go from there, I am at a point in my life where before this, I've been playing basketball and going to school full time and really taking it serious for the past 10 years of my life, and it is going to finally be over. Yes, I am looking forward to what the future has in stored for me, but I am really not ready for that. I really miss those days hanging with my teammates and friends, traveling on airplanes and vans to go to places I have never been before. I am going to miss everything, but one day I am going to look back at it when I get older and say I got to go to school in Hawaii and got to have the time of my life.
My relationship with sustainability is pretty good because I have always been aware of the environment and always cared about what was going on earth. So I try to do what little I can to save our materials so people many years from now can have the same. So recycling is something I do to help, and anything else I could I am very open and would like to help in any way necessary.
From this class I hope to learn a lot more of Sustainability and other ways I can be more apart of this movement and help in other ways. I think this is very important for futures and families and will need the learning ability to know what is going on.
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