Carving Our Future: How Citizens Can Thaw Corporate ‘Sustainability’

Resistance is F…araday?

Micah Tinklepaugh
24 min readOct 20, 2024

Energy is super important. You use a lot of it. I do it. And it takes a lot of energy sometimes to change things we don’t like. For instance, one of the pioneers of electromagnetism served as an expert witness to demonstrate how owners of a coal mine could have prevented the death of its workers in an explosion. I don’t imagine he liked having to dedicate time to something that should seem so obvious: corporations should not be negligent in their operations. Faraday was pretty cool. He did things he wanted to do as well such as give 19 lectures to inspire people to be interested in science. He tried to make it more open. More accessible. Inspired by his great works, I’m trying to figure out how to make increasing sustainability of industrial invention more profitable.

Yesterday I ordered a 3D printer that is going to help me model a device for navigating and mapping a crater on the south pole of the moon. The filament is bio degradable. I bought a electric composter for it. This is all for a concept I’m submitting in a NASA competition. In order to step through the development of this white paper for the NASA competition, I want to do each step of the planned process for 30 minutes and then revise the plan on lessons learned, documenting how I worked, so that I…

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Micah Tinklepaugh
Micah Tinklepaugh

Written by Micah Tinklepaugh

I design products for people and systems. I also like to swim, bike, and run.