We live in changing times. This week, Nova Scotia Power inspected the solar panels on our roof. As part of the installation by Stanton Solar Power, they installed a monitoring application on my Samsung mobile phone. This allows us to monitor the solar power, by panel, by time of day. It also gives us control of the system. So I have moved from a mobile phone for emergency purposes to another application and device in the cottage.
Our method of communication is also changing. For example, Ed Symons has converted my blog into a podcast. Every week, I receive an email from Emergence magazine. This week, it included a podcast interview with Richard Powers, author of The Overstory (see blog, January 20th).
Tuesday, Heather and I planned an experiment. We would attend AquaFit at the Fundy YMCA in Cornwallis. We would drive to Bridgetown and catch the 8 am 4W bus to Cornwallis. Our interest was the accessibility and convenience of the Kings Transit bus service. Before heading to Bridgetown, I called the YMCA to register for the class. Only to learn that the pool was closed, and will be out of commission for another week. Oh well, try again later.
From the bookshelf, I selected David Orr’s Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect. It ends with this quotation from Scott Momaday:
“Once in his life a man….ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listen to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glory of noon and all the colours of the dawn and dusk. (p.83)
Acknowledgements
Neil Stanton for his good work on solar power. Ed Symons and Edward Wedler for technical support.
References
Emergence Magazine. Podcast. Kinship, Community and Consciousness: Interview with Richard Powers. February 4th. 2020.
David W. Orr. 1994. Earth in Mind. On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect. Island Press.
Scott Momaday. 1993. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press.
Original work published 1969.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Tate quote is so moving! Thanks.
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“That” – sorry, not enough coffee yet! 🙂
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“… mobile learning has come on leaps and bounds with the realization that this is the dominant form factor for many deskless workers.”
Bob,
To follow up on recent comments you made in your “The Electronic Cottage” post, about the changing way we now communicate, I send a link to a recent UK study on the changing way we educate and train (parallel, alternative learning streams you have mentioned in the past) that could have implications in the Annapolis Valley and for COGS.
https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/02/07/gig-economy-contractor-training/
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