[GBlist] politics and green building

["michael" <compostnow@telus.net>]

Unfortunately politics invades my day more and more as violence escalates in
the name of retribution and "resolve".
Politics has a way of controlling its presence in our daily lives and i find
it difficult to draw a line with it on these emails.
It is very simple to delete emails about topics that i am not interested in.
It feels good to be on lists that kindly move the flow but do not censure
the community that is here for a purpose: to learn and further or existence.
Green building involves a paradigm shift.
The shift is generally moving into what my studies in the Philosophy of
Technology at University refer to as a shift from monism (one way, my way or
the highway, censorship) in holism (many ways that lead to the progression
of ideas and understanding).
Because someone speaks of some idea out of my web of belief, I will choose
to debate in dialectic, or ignore out of total misunderstanding or lack of
time, but my delete button is my personal right to censor and refuse to hear
what someone is saying.
To ask someone to leave the circle because they are "off topic" or to
threaten that you will leave, is to refuse to participate and that is a
shame for we are all here to learn.
Green building is a new form of thinking and is holistic in its intention.
Therefore, the green on un-green (black) behaviour in the macro spheres play
a definite influence on our micro green endeavours.



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