Cradle to Cradle
Posted in Education, Environment
Education is lifelong … Remaking the way we make things should apply to education and the multitude of environments in which education exists and functions.
Category: Environment
May
23
2020
May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
School Futures
Schools dominate our systems of education. But schools are not an essential system. In the absence of schools, education would still go on but it would be very different from we now, almost universally conceive to be “education.” It is imperative that society take a step back from schools and schooling to explore alternatives and…
May
05
2020
May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
STEM is not …
STEM is not STEaM or STEaMie. STEM is reserved for corporate workforce development. There is no room at the top for Art in STEAM or Including Everyone in STEAMIE. STEM is first and always elite. Pass a year or two of college calculus if you want admission to anything beyond third grade. Of course that…
Tags:economics
Jun
04
2019
June 4, 2019
June 4, 2019
by Bruce Lindgren
Echoing Green
“We are told over and over again these days that the economy is the bottom line. But as a biologist this never made any sense to me. It is the biosphere that is the source of everything that matters because it is the health of the biosphere,including the water, soil and air we all breath,…
Apr
22
2019
April 22, 2019
April 22, 2019
by Bruce Lindgren
Earth Day
There may be no more magnificent photographs than those of Earth from outer space. Humans had to travel to space to see Earth in all of its awesome majesty and its delicate vulnerability. The venture in space for a few was an education for all. We were changed by the image of the little blue…