“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.” TechnologyDesignWindWasteCreatingBasesProductionsArchitectureErasPostsHousingEcologicalPetroleumUtilizationFood Production Author:John Todd
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.” ThinkingMomentsOrderEnergySocialJusticeHistoryCreatingLettersSocial JusticeErasThoughtfulCustomsThinkerSheerVulgarVictorianSocial Order Author:Ellen Glasgow
“When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.” YearsTurnsThreeStepsEnemyFivePlansTvsCreatingModelsConceptsRussiaErasGiantsFive YearsNightmareSovietTurn-onMissilesFive Year Plans Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.” WorldBelieveDoeWarAmericaForcePresidentDifferencesBehindsSituationEnvironmentFocusSecurityOughtCreatingBarackErasWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IUnstable Author:Jeb Bush
“I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.” StoriesMysteryEmotionalPeriodsCreatingConnectionsHearingNostalgiaErasTime Periods Author:Elle Fanning
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.” WantHumansMayDifferentAbleActionEarthFormCommunityPlanetsCreatingClimateClimate ChangeAcceptedErasHuman LifeOrganizedTolerateHuman Actions Author:Noam Chomsky