Intellectual Farming

Farming to me is using knowledge in order to produce a product. This product is the result of using a intellectual collective understanding used to cultivate an idea into reality. Since becoming interested in sustainable design, it is apparent how many lack an understanding of how human activity affects the Earth's habitat and by cultivating an increased knowledge of our impacts we can cultivate new and innovative solutions that reduce our impacts using knowledge collected from different sources. Farming our understanding of the world around us an creating a collective of specialists will in turn would create innovative sustainable design.

To me a collective analysis of the waste from our activity should completed so we can understand how something starts and ends. Much like in cradle to cradle, a complete production loop from the things we use should be designed such that our activity has no affect on the environment, or at least a positive one. From human waste, to trash, to water use, it is everything we use and throw away that will create sustainable ideas cultivated from our collective knowledge. To ensure our survival on the planet, each of the systems we affect should be in equilibrium, otherwise we will ensure our mutual destruction.