Class discussion - all the energies

In order to help us progress with the project and to have a greater understanding of where our energy sits within all the energies we had a class discussion addressing some of the issues we had found out.

Some ideas and topics I came away with were:

-planning for generations to come - how indigenous tribes used to plan for 7 generation whereas now it seems that we are not planning this far ahead.

-transportation costs/waste costs

-footprint

-the sounds of energy such as the sounds of wind turbines

-the government - in Britain a government is usually only in power for a few years so it is difficult for them to put in a long term energy plan as when the next party arrives they may have different views on these issues.

-the idea of sacrifice and planning. also long term versus short term reward.

-how energies are represented such as green/non green propoganda.

  -organic food and how it is packaged- what kind of person would want to buy it

-making people feel positive about doing 'their bit' for the environment - is this fake?

-global/local response to energy

-objects - making people want products they don't need

At the end of this discussion we were set the task to create a one minute video that communicates our idea for what we want to focus on for our final outcome.