In a message dated 10/8/05 5:31:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > According to Taran another argument could be made that electricity > generation using oil sources does the same. According to Taran, for > people who are unfamiliar with renewable energy equipment, there is also > an environmental impact in producing the equipment itself which many > people who advocate renewable energy do not factor in. According to > Taran, renewable energy in it's entirety is a larger subject than > 'burning kerosene', and it affects the entire planet. > > In some places of the world, fuel might be cow patties ( dung), in some places in the world, in Europe, people used chicken dung to fuel cars during fuel shortages. In geography we look at where the place is, what the pinpoint location is, and then we look at the resources that are there..this is all changing, but I learned a lesson while living in India . I had a bunch of paper and plastic bags which I threw away. People kept giving them back to me. So I cut some of them up into shreds. It was before I learned that there were, at that time not so many plastic bags available. In the US I have been working with Native American cultures.. trying to help in education.. But first I must learn their values and what their traditions are. It is interesting to be able to discuss history such as Lewis and Clark with people who are descended from the people that Lewis and Clark met. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/ Many people in the communities do not esteem school as we teach it. Karen Buller and I ( my mother was native American) tried writing grants, but unfortunately we wanted to use the culture of the people, storytelling, and etc to start the use of technology, to then perhaps use and teach digital storytelling. The Navajo have few telephones, and they are in chapter houses, but there is technology of a sort in the chapter houses. We wanted to do community outreach by combining the legacy skills of the people and transition them to newer technologies if there was interest. But the funders, or those with the monies wanted us to use vendor programs. So that 's a long story to tell you that everyone does not want to do school the way we say to do it. And to say that sometimes funders have blinders on of the culture they come from. Bonnie Bracey Sutton bbracey aol com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
