This post is part 6 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
Reflections: Releases the inner me. “Mind deserves the same care and nurturing we give to other natural resources. Today this is far from the case. The world’s people lie woefully fallow.”
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, October 2, 2011 6:00 am | 
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This post is part 5 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
Implications for Online Learning: Plays with limits. “In an age of scarcity industrialism, we need something simple, cheap, small-scale, decentralized, and modular for easy scalability. “
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, October 1, 2011 6:00 am | Comments Off
This post is part 4 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
Scenario of Scarcity Industrialism: Explores a feasible future. “[John Michael] Greer’s work provides a rich resource for thinking critically about tomorrow. It’s a thoughtful and well-written depiction of the near future that challenges readers to consider what happens to industrial societies that, in a mere 300 years, managed to blow away nearly one-half of the recoverable fossil fuels that it took nature half a billion years to make.”
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 30, 2011 5:00 am | Comments Off
This post is part 3 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
What’s the Concern? Makes the counterpoint. “Insufficient time exists to scale up non-fossil fuel energy sources to ensure safety from climate change and to also maintain current average standards of living in the world.”
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 29, 2011 5:00 am | Comments Off
This post is part 2 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
Peak Oil and Climate Change: Makes the mainstream point. From the International Energy Agency: “Cutting emissions sufficiently to meet the 2°C goal would require a far-reaching transformation of the global energy system.”
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 28, 2011 6:00 am | Comments Off
This post is part 1 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
Introduction: Sets the context. From a recent journal on public health: “.. the ways in which we live, eat, travel, vacation, work, recreate, trade, manufacture, and consume will all likely be very different from today.”
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 27, 2011 6:00 am | Comments Off
Sleepwalking into tomorrow cannot possibly help.
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 26, 2011 9:38 am | Comments Off
With climate change and the imminent peak in crude oil, the world sits between a rock and a hard place. The implications for learning and educational institutions are likely to be significant.
Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, September 19, 2011 7:43 am | Comments (1)
Entertaining, erudite, powerful … but disappointing? That’s my reaction to John Michael Greer’s post about learning and why it needs to be salvaged.
Commentary, Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, July 28, 2011 12:20 pm | Comments Off
All plans are off if tomorrow diverges sharply from today.
Commentary, Context of Education Change | Gary Lewis, July 27, 2011 8:18 am | Comments Off
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