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title: Bridge to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
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description: "An exploration of a key bridge in the history of solar energy."
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excerpt: Today is a mash-up of two great contributors to society, each of whom have rested just on the periphery of our common knowledge. Today we look to participants that have helped me to see shape of the story of solar, each of whom had such an impact on my work and my livelihood in this new space of Solar Ecology.
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> “Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”  ---U. Utah Phillips

Today is a mash-up of two great contributors to society, each of whom have rested just on the periphery of our common knowledge. Today we look to participants that have helped me to see shape of the story of solar, each of whom had such an impact on my work and my livelihood in this new space of `Solar Ecology`.

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## Utah Phillips (1935-2008) ##

You may have heard of the box-car troubadour, labor organizer, and storyteller [U<NAME>](http://thelongmemory.com/) (1935-2008) from his collaborative period with <NAME> ([The Past Didn't Go Anywhere](http://www.righteousbabe.com/products/the-past-didnt-go-anywhere)--released October 15, 1996, by [Righteous Babe Records](http://www.righteousbabe.com/). I was strongly affected by his voice and message of time, story, pacifism, anarchy, and the malleability of our roles in *this particular part of the river* we find ourselves standing in. I happened to be working at a disc and comics shop part-part time (because really, music *and* comics?), and that was the right place, right time. Hearing Utah speak on the sound system was like tuning in to hear your elders, and it was an addictive message--one that made you go out and look for more! And so I would find myself looking into other small spaces for messages that 'build that bridge between my world and theirs'. 

![Utah Phillips Death Note](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Utah_Phillips_death_note.png "Attribution: Fiona Bearclaw, Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0")

*Attribution: Fiona Bearclaw, Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0*

So time to listen to the story of one of our European elders, formed in a time of privilege for the elite, and discoveries that really seemed to remain hidden from the current story of solar that we are telling in school today. So today's bridge between worlds takes us to our second contributor, from the 1700s Swiss Confederation...

## Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799)<commit_msg>trying quotes in de saussure<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: Bridge to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
date: 2016-07-31T22:50:15-04:00
modified:
description: "An exploration of a key bridge in the history of solar energy."
categories: articles
excerpt: Today is a mash-up of two great contributors to society, each of whom have rested just on the periphery of our common knowledge. Today we look to participants that have helped me to see shape of the story of solar, each of whom had such an impact on my work and my livelihood in this new space of Solar Ecology.
tags: [heliothermometer, de Saussure, solar]
image: MontBlanc2c.jpg
  feature: 
  credit: "[<NAME>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sanchezn)--CC BY-SA 3.0"
comments: true
share: true
---

> “Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”  ---U. Utah Phillips

Today is a mash-up of two great contributors to society, each of whom have rested just on the periphery of our common knowledge. Today we look to participants that have helped me to see shape of the story of solar, each of whom had such an impact on my work and my livelihood in this new space of `Solar Ecology`.

---

## Utah Phillips (1935-2008) ##

You may have heard of the box-car troubadour, labor organizer, and storyteller [Utah Phillips](http://thelongmemory.com/) (1935-2008) from his collaborative period with <NAME> ([The Past Didn't Go Anywhere](http://www.righteousbabe.com/products/the-past-didnt-go-anywhere)--released October 15, 1996, by [Righteous Babe Records](http://www.righteousbabe.com/). I was strongly affected by his voice and message of time, story, pacifism, anarchy, and the malleability of our roles in *this particular part of the river* we find ourselves standing in. I happened to be working at a disc and comics shop part-part time (because really, music *and* comics?), and that was the right place, right time. Hearing Utah speak on the sound system was like tuning in to hear your elders, and it was an addictive message--one that made you go out and look for more! And so I would find myself looking into other small spaces for messages that 'build that bridge between my world and theirs'. 

![Utah Phillips Death Note](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Utah_Phillips_death_note.png "Attribution: <NAME>, Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0")

*Attribution: <NAME>, Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0*

So time to listen to the story of one of our European elders, formed in a time of privilege for the elite, and discoveries that really seemed to remain hidden from the current story of solar that we are telling in school today. So today's bridge between worlds takes us to our second contributor, from the 1700s Swiss Confederation...

## Horace-<NAME> (1740-1799)
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