ETX36— Sustainable Engineering



Spring 2015

Instructor: Teresa Koper

Our meeting last Tuesday (the 14th of April) during Angela D. Goldsmith and Daniel Phipps visited our class Sustainable engineering at Mount Hood Community college, has been meaningful to me and very satisfactory. Their instructions, advice and different approach in their presentations greatly affected me. Angela D. Goldsmith where talking about permaculture. Permaculture ethics such as care of the earth, people, and distribution of goods that are surplus to our needs etc. based on what she talked about she believes that “food forest is one way to fight desertification”. She uses some good images to illustrate and clarify her ideas and I had an opportunity with my classmate, my teacher and her to visit one of the projects that she is undertaking after class. That allows us to understand and see what she is doing, it was really nice outside. 

We had a great speaker a famous guy, named Daniel Phipps who has his charcoal project, a sustainable business in Haiti where he teach people to make charcoal from waste, he faced many challenges when started his coal project, but he never quit. His advice not devoid of humor, will be feeding my thoughts for a long time in setting goals and more precisely when implementing my community action plan, and in my future career. He did an outstanding presentation during two hours where he develops this topic Sustainable Engineering and Economic Development solution.  He talks about Financial, cultural, technological and emotional Sustainability and share a lot of thoughts that I considered as part of the key tools necessary to build a project and achieve its goals.

When talking about Emotional Sustainability Daniel Phipps uses some important words related to persistence and emotion which can encourage the manager or leader and team members to maintain his/ her engagement when leading or managing a project to change lives, improving a community or making the world a better place.

The six "P" that Mr. Phipps invited us to have when developing a project:

Passion – If you are not passionate, it won’t happen!
Persistence— never quit!
Perspiration— Work at it—Hard!
People— A team, following the leader’s passion!
Profit— it must be economically self-sufficient!
Peace— the leader must take time to maintain internal peace through prayer, time alone, exercise etc.

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