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What Three Words 什么三个字 Holly-into-spill. These are the what three words for where I am sitting right now? Yes, what three words. I’m going to read from the Wikipedia. What three words, is a proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of the Earth with a resolution of about three metres.…

The Hermit 隐士 Welcome to the Campaign Projects podcast. I’m your host Soumitri Varadarajan, and today’s topic is The Hermit. When I spoke to you, I said that the rich on their estates used to have a hut, and they would have their own hermit. So now I’m going to read from Wikipedia on the…

Teaching Poverty 了解贫困 I teach in an industrial design programme in Australia. This semester, in my design studies class of 20, I had one each of a Sri Lankan Assyrian, Filipino, Mongolian, Greek, Egyptian, Japanese, Irish, Norwegian, and Taiwanese. I had two of Indian, Anglo and Indonesian. I had four Chinese. That was diversity. This…

Keywords migration, migrate, places, poverty, map, narrative,  I came into class that day with zucchini bread. Half of it had chillies in it. And the other half did not. There was a lot of cheese in the zucchini bread. And I think it went down really well. Yeah. Welcome to the Campaign Projects podcast. I’m your host, Soumitri Varadarajan. And…

May 2024 in Melbourne is a strange kind of time. So, welcome to the campaign projects podcast. I’m your host Soumitri Varadarajan. The topic for this podcast is 16-27. For those of you who were in the class a couple of weeks ago, I’m talking to you directly. In our warmup at the start of…

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/campaign-projects/id1700335123?i=1000654561964 SUMMARY KEYWORDS poverty, ontology, ecologies, ecology, project, cancer, relative poverty, postcode, scotland, people, SPA, smaller towns, class, students, personal transformation Transcript In 1986, New Delhi. School of Planning and Architecture (SPA). I’m teaching a course on “creativity and problem solving”. And I have chosen to use some texts in the foundation in…

The reading of the speech/ essay LINK Wikipedia LINK In “My Seditious Heart,” Roy rides to battle against a host of troubles. Most frequently, she criticizes India’s fondness for big dams, and its cruelty to the people displaced by them. She lambasts the American imperium and its souped-up capitalism, multinational institutions like the World Bank,…

SNOMED – https://www.snomed.org/ SNOMED International determines global standards for health terms, an essential part of improving the health of humankind. Climate Movements: “Social movements are large-scale, organized efforts to achieve a social or political goal. Climate movements are specifically focused on advocating for policy, economic, and cultural shifts to tackle climate change. Social movements are…

Inflation Reduction Act President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has changed the battery landscape in the US, leading to a gigafactory building boom that has increased forecast battery capacity by two thirds, according to Benchmark. LINK Global Climate Impacts: 40% 2030, Net Zero by 2050 Various sources What the White House is saying: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/17/what-they-are-saying-one-year-anniversary-of-the-inflation-reduction-act/ Tracking the…

“Every year we dump a massive 2.12 billion tons of waste. If all this waste was put on trucks they would go around the world 24 times. This stunning amount of waste is partly because 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months.” LINK Right to Repair European Commission: LINK Overview…