Hey - sorry for the lack of updates lately - been really busy and have started about 10 posts, but haven't managed to finish them. They will require a bit more thinking. However, my brain is still capable to regurgitating some events, so I'll do that.

Digital Earth Youth Voice Pre-summit (26, 27 August '06)
Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability (28 - 30 August '06) [www.digitalearth.org.nz]

Basically, this was about: meeting people who care about the environment and the sustainability of New Zealand (and the world), finding out about the problem, what we can do to help (as individuals, as communities, as Auckland city, as New Zealand), what other cities have done and how technology is/can aid/hinder sustainability.
My thoughts and reactions on sustainability:

• further in the camp of personal responsibility
• big walloping guilt about everything I do
• must therefore do more
• confusion why so many people I have spoken to afterward have thought I was just being paranoid
• we need to stop taking everything for granted
• am asking why we do anything we do
  

My thoughts and reactions on meeting new people:

• feel removed/distant/disconnected
• feel like a repellent
• feel misunderstood, but most importantly, feel unable to understand others at a basic level
• feel tired