PhD. Degree

I recently was watching this Ted-Talk video:


and it reminded me of where I started: Walt Disney's Dreamers and Doers: AWARD WINNER 1985: Where I described a City of the Future in such detail and passion that you can feel and see how people "live with nature" using the advanced "technologies to facilitate" the mutual support and co-evolution of the environment and the society.   In his TED-Talk above I found the conclusion appropriately powerful:

Here in Tampa we try to stay in touch with the necessity and inspiration of a relationship to water for a more sustainable Florida . . .  The City of the Future, is where people live with nature and use technology to facilitate that living . . . Where people take better care of the water, appreciate the value of water, returning the book of water back to the library of the river.

What is so stunning for me now, is that I am still trying to define my own PhD. Degree as if I could ever do any better than this 1980 original:

The Doctor's Degree will seek to show the validity of this "hypothesis:" Life, through evolution, seeks to unify matter and energy into more concentrated complex forms to create more of these energies.

Maybe I need to get some way to chat about this with him in detail . . . 

Weaver - Introductory Profile

Good Morning!
Thank you all for the warm welcome, and hospitality.  I am so pleased to be working with such a fine team of  people committed to collaborative efforts.   This indicates leadership of integrity.  I look forward to working with and learning more about all of you.  In the same light, this reply will share my first assignments, list some skills and experiences and post to a private blog that we can expand and develop.  My thought is to allow us to edit and comment to this individually and enhance our collaborations and transparency.

I have met with Dr. Kebreab Ghebremichael who asked that I look into three things:

1. Earth Day Volunteers
2. Office of Sustainability website
3. Envisions Life Cycle models

My Skills are:

1. Technology including web sites, videos, and computer software
2. Patent innovation, prototyping, and entrepreneurship
3. Organizing knowledge, skills, and collaboration = Team Building

Started business:	Classes as TA, author and/or instructor:
Stormwater modeling Professional	4631 Critical Issues in Public Hlth
Patent development Patents	6102 Principles of Hlth Pol and Mgmt
Education services Philanthropy	6147 Managing Quality in Hlth Care
USF Graduate Student	6421 Public Health Law and Ethics
	Complexity Communities Supported
Personal Passions:	The Social Entrepreneur Presented
MBA Patent Project	Sustainability Lectures Outlined
Public Health Complexity Group	Social Entrepreneurship as Urban Ag Planned
Research IWRM Blog
Assessment LEED Innovations	Social Media
Community Redevelopment Innovations	Online Art of Hosting Community
Rainwater Capture Greenhouse	Linkedin business links
	Timebank local services

I hope my skills inspire more collaboration to enhance opportunities for all of us.  We can all add and edit this on the blog.  Each of us can produce a similar page or develop personal university pages as linked below.  This will support our collaboration for developing new projects and knowledge sharing.  I will continue to develop and post here, and welcome others.  You can simply use the link to see what I am researching, and that is sufficient.

Have a wonderful Day
Eric

Eric R. Weaver
Research Associate
Patel College of Global Sustainability
University of South Florida
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