Building Resilience - The Upside of Down

I’ve just finished reading The Upside of Down, which is very disturbing, but at the same confirms some of my own directions in life. A good part of this book reads like An Inconvenient Truth, but Homer-Dixon adds more detail about how we got into this mess. Much of the book is dedicated to an explanation of the five tectonic stresses that we face as a civilization - population; energy; environmental; climate and economic. About 80% of this book is depressing to any thoughtful or caring person.

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Video contest submission - Mysterious Middle School

So there’s a contest put on by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. I entered it with this submission.

The goal was to personify Spanish a bit and make it a bit ghostly. This is almost entirely student-done, with only minor help from me in shooting it. I was allowed to help with some of the finer technical details, so I did.

One note, it had to be 2 minutes or less, hence the shortness. I’m thinking about making a longer version, but my time to do so runs thin.

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