All this quiet reflection...

...makes one a silent blogger.

Somehow got side-tracked by a spot of project management assignment completion. Finally, well into week 4, I have finally dispatched that wretched Winter School subject, just in time for Spring! I have a new found respect for real project managers and the power of Gantt charts although, quite frankly, I cannot see myself becoming a true believer! The highlight of the entire adventure was using all my risk analysis experience to write a  risk analysis and control plan for none other than a wedding planning business, although save a section on natural disaster management, climate change in particular and sustainability in general, didn't get a look in.

This semester is turning out to be quite a difference experience to last semester. Away from the methodical focus of the engineering type subjects, I have been introduced to the warmer, fuzzier, green glow of the humanities. All which lead to last week's reflection piece looking something like this...

"Labels, riots and religion – never a dull moment in sustainability! As we continue to debate about typologies and also learn the meaning of more obscure words, such as epistemological, the green hue of sustainability becomes murkier. The examination of the two national case studies – the Australian National Strategy for Ecological Sustainable Development as compared to the UK Sustainable Development Strategy was most striking given the widely reported civil unrest in the UK and the extreme volatility of the world money markets of this week. The semantics of seeking appropriate sustainability indicators appeared moot when parts of English society were rioting over an undefined number of issues. 
Away from the civil unrest, a very thought provoking tutorial discussion was had about sustainable development by inviting religion, culture and inevitably sex into the room. I sat bemused and thinking that we only need to throw in politics and we were breaking every rule I was ever taught about polite conversation in society.  In particular the discussion examined the strengths of taboos in prevention of environmental damage and the interdependence of marriage, children and status in many societies."

However as the week has rolled on I have wondered whether we are not breaking enough rules about polite conversation...