Emanuel

this place is called "Paar Seen", which literally translates as "two lakes". these 2 little lakes are in the alps on 1900 meters high, and the only way to get there is to hike 3 hours. they have no visible feeding river, and no drainage, since the water gets collected from the mountain tops around, and then runs off through the mountain into a stalactite cave system that is accesible through the bottom of the mountain. its a very, very quite place and far from civilisation. pictures from: http://drechslerei.at/paarseen/index.htm
 * my favorite place: --- Thanks. Wunderbar! 96%**





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** Homework assignment Monday Aug 22nd Leopold Reading **
 * Pretty good except you only have two (excellent ) points on the Marshland Elegy. 90% **

** 1. ** Read Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac ‘Marsh Elegy’ pp 99 – 101. List on your wiki journal 3 points why you think Aldo Leopold is a good writer and be ready to discuss them in class.

** 2. ** Read Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac ‘Think Like a Mountain’ pp 133. Summarize in one main point (20 to 50 words) in your wiki journal what you understand Leopold to mean by “Think like a mountain” and be ready to discuss it in class. 1. Leopold gives very emotional descriptions of nature. The way he describes things are more on a feeling level then on an intellectual level 2. He has a strong story-arch in his text. he starts with the positive, desirable wilderness, then the first turning point, when farmers and government move in, then second turning point when he describes how conservatives try to preserve nature, and at the end a look back on how the conservation does not reflect true nature. 3. what makes it so compelling to read is that he gives the land, the animals and the plants "human features" - in his writing it seems like the land is happier as long as there is animals on it, he gives the impression that it

2, The sentence that had most importance for me was: "Only the mointain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf." For me this strongly describes how important it is to sit back and observe nature before trying to change anything. There are so many connections in nature that we do not see, that it is almost impossible to make a judgement about anything thats going on. Where for humans the wolf seemed to be bad, the mountain knows how important the wolf is for the balance of nature. It reflects on us the importance to observe and let go of nature, in order to truly understand it.

here is my homework for tue:

**Homework assignment Tuesday Aug 23nd Leopold field trip notes**1 Write in your wiki journal 3 main points (25 to 50 words each) the most interesting points from the day’s field trip and be ready to discuss them in class. 2 Write down a pattern you saw today on our field trip to Burlington and analyze how you felt about it.


 * Grade. Something about the quality of your thought and perception is really very pleasing. Well done. Excellent work. By the way, I know English isn't your first language but you could do a spell check and get the underlined words correct. Also when we start a sentence we use a capital letter. These are only small points but they may devalue your high quality work in some people's eyes. 97% **
 * 3 main points from day2:**

- a landscape metaphor: a landscape that represent nature within an urban setting as an metaphor for what nature actually is. it demonstrates people in an urban area the beauty of nature, even though its not really a wild, natural place itself.

-freedom - individual - loss

these seemed to be the 3 words that came out in steve's research on nature. it comes from the background of humans as hunter-gatherers. humans in our society miss the freedom they see in nature now, and that used to be part of human society all the time. individualism, which has become so important as a means of filling up this emptiness that comes from the loss of freedom. and third loss, the main motivator to go out and search for what has gone missing, wether its a feeling, something physical, or a connection. we mourn these losses and go out and try to find new things to replace the old.

- engineering efficiency and creating wildernes.

Steve said something very interesting, and i am not sure if i captured it right word by word, but it was something like that: We try to create sustainability by increasing the efficiency of our engineering skills, but truly, the amount of wilderness still existing should be the barometer that measures the success of sustainability efforts. This is very interesting to me, cause i often see, specially in the USA that people think they are sustainable by buying more and more "green"products, like recyclable plastic cups, or fair trade coffee, and forget to see that true sustainability will only exist if we start buying less and are able to be happy with what we already have, and not strive for more and more all the time.
 * Yes I think you have got it right. Shallow sustainability is our term for it. **

the pattern i liked most was the water surface of the mississippi. it had this dynamic movement of water with different reflections of the sky, the clouds and the trees around it. it has something very majestic too it. i imagine how people felt 200 years ago when they first crossed this river and looked at it from the point where we were standing today. it gives me a feeling of dynamic, freedom, change and movement.
 * pattern:**

**Hw 3 - Notes from call with Sarah and Jim Anderson: --- Very good. Most points there. Car access missed. 93%**
5 acres land build home for 2 people stapatya veda build small one store building low building? don't like 2 stores doing building themselves sustainably: energy efficient, cost effective easy on the land post and beam framework - thick walls, high insulations for wall and sealing straw bale R-value at least 42 no concrete foundation no basement off the grid budget: 120.000 including electricity (solar+wind combined), gas, rain water catchment 32x32 foot about 900 squarefeet 42x42 including porches main entrance east, technically wanna use north entrance vastu fence around the house: 60x60 house on east end of property, road through west, through neighbours driveway

farming and gardening. south of house (high point of ridge) 1 milk cow

outside of vastu, west of house: small storage, shed, carport, etc

lifetime lease with neighbor to go to lake with a little gazebo

floorheating (hot water in floor) winter: gas power furnisse for water heating in house passive solar on south (large windows on south,

gardening: south of the house, outside of vastu fence, on top of ridge start small and take it from there winter (green house in south of house) rest of land: cow, wildflowers,

home base but will travel a lot

ideas: windbreak, trees?

how can we add value for them? propose alternative