The Fulbright/Germany students and the NCSU students will be meeting in groups.

We are going to start by talking about our cities and towns. Be prepared to say something about your city. Identify it on this Google Map. (Use the +/- buttons to navigate to your city, then use the pin icon to put down a pin, and add your name. You can define “your city” however you want–where you were born, where you live now….) How old it is? What is the oldest building in your city town? Find a picture of that building and be ready to share something about it with the group. (And upload it to padlet.)

How do you define sustainability? Can you think of an example of sustainability/unsustainability that you see in your community?
Can you think of an example of sustainability/unsustainbilty you have seen in American/German society?
Write about it or post of picture of it in this padlet.

Wendell Berry “Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer”
Wendell Berry has been a great American prophet of sustainability in agriculture for 60 years or more. You can read more about his life (optional) here or here.
What do you think of Wendell Berry’s arguments about computers? How do they relate to sustainability?
How do his 9 standards for technological innovation relate to sustainability?
Can we identify a core point in each of his standards?
In his response to his critics he says he has “scratched the skin of a technological fundamentalism” that “wishes to monopolize a whole society.” Do you think he is right?
Could you imagine someone today writing an essay “Why I am not going to use ChatGPT”? Would the arguments be similar to Berry’s?