Welcome
Hi, and thanks for visiting my site! This is my home for all things related to sustainability, from home gardening and recycling tips to my thoughts on multinational energy projects and beyond.
I have been interested in sustainability issues since long before I even knew of the word. Even as a young child I remember thinking that the world wasn’t big enough for everyone to live like some people I knew lived, and as I grew I came to realize that a finite world, with an exponentially growing human population, was an inherently unsustainable system. While I fully believe in the power of technology to help us ride out the challenges of the future, it is important to remember that we each have a responsibility to leave this world better than when we came in to it, and that ‘scientists will figure out a way to deal with that someday’ is NOT a tenable position to take when it comes to resource management.
After High School I left America for quite a while, spending nearly a year living in the Middle East. Getting to see the issues of water and land conflicts first hand only strengthened my desire to help provide solutions for problems of resource shortage and sustainability in general. I received my undergraduate degree from New College of Florida in Anthropology and Environmental Studies, completing my studies there with my thesis ‘An Ecological Anthropology of the Israeli National Water Carrier’. I found that the discipline of Anthropology, with it’s focus on using individuals as a lens to tease out issues of larger group dynamics, provided me with a perfect tool for furthering my understanding of sustainability. Currently I am a full time student in the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning program of CU Denver, and this blog will very likely turn in to a chronicle of my growing scholarship in that field. Until then, I’ll be using this platform to share interesting links, tutorials and rants on a wide range of subjects dealing with personal ‘greening’ projects, urban planning, resource management and anything else related to sustainability.
If you would like to contact me, please feel free to email me at mitchell at greenurbanplanning dot com. And thanks again for stopping by!
-Mitchell
