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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • student
  • engineer, physicist, philosophe extraordinaire
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

stop climate change, save the world, and then work out what my place in it is

ABOUT ME

A recent graduate from a Masters in Energy Science and Technology, I'm all about the renewable energy :) I'm now taking the time to decide what to do next, without being in a rush.

I like to seek new things, to do things just because i haven't done them.

I'm very much an environmentalist, planet earth is a too magical place to let it be destroyed in the name of money.

I like to talk to interesting people especially if they share my quirky sense of humor:)

PHILOSOPHY

Things will probably turn out fine... if you make it so. I live only by the rules I can rationally accept (merci Rousseau!). I seek originality in thought and expression. I try to be relaxed about things (though sometimes it's not so easy!)

My ambition is to leave the world a slightly better place than I found it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf when i travel, host if I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hopping around, here and there, some though CS.org, lots through friends and aquaintances, and some through random encounters

Interests

Maybe i should just list what i'm not interested in, it would be shorter :P Nearly everything can be interesting in some way.

Ok really, environment and activism (and politics, by extension) are very important to me. I'm a geek in denial, and can't help but love computers, games, free software, and programming.

I find technology fascinating, we can do some amazing things (though sometimes maybe we shouldn't).

I love cycling, though i'm not much of an athelete, hiking in the mountains, and my ambition is to learn to paraglide.

  • environment
  • ethics
  • working out
  • politics
  • technology
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • paragliding
  • science
  • software
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Random selection:
Henry Thoreau: Essay on Civil Disobediance
Fm Belfast (ironically, from Iceland)
All things by Murakami

All films by Hayao Miyazaki - show them to your kids to make sure they become good people!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stood on top of Huayna Picchu, looking down onto Machu Picchu.
Stood beneath a Giant Sequoia.
Climbed Mt Fuji.
Hiked up the Geirangerfjord
Somehow stayed in touch with some great people through it all

To be Continued

Teach, Learn, Share

Interpretations of Quantum mechanics. Where to put your solar panel. Core elements of Virtue Ethics.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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