What do time and bats have in common?

Cyclical vs. linear time. Interesting, interesting. I don't get it. Can we have both?? That would be a spiral I suppose.

McKibben talks about Economists who are worried about building sustainable societies that revolve around a finite amount of goods, using the same amount of resources year after year. He mentions that this can only happen when we change the parameters of the game of growth, that is measured in relation to how it progress with time.


I had the please of meeting with a past cohort from the MAEEC course who does a lot of work in the area of sustainable transportation, mainly with youth. When talking with him about the cycle of my program and the grant duration, he began to shift the programming into seasons, rather than talk of "quarters". By changing the language of how the program would be developed and delivered, it became more about the people I was trying to reach rather then how to designate funding.

I like how McKibben brings this into the book "The Missing Age of Information", and challenges us to think about an electronic environment of time. I look at this blog post and can see the date stamp, and how I have the ability to post ideas and thoughts from today as if they were from my past. How can this medium distort our historical records I wonder??