Every Interaction is an Energy Exchange: Make it Positive and Shiny
Aim to be the vitamin in someone’s life
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Last Saturday I visited the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco where merchants and makers in the Bay Area and beyond sell their handicrafts and designs, attracting many people from the Saturday Farmers’ Market there.
I came across this huge and colourful print card and I immediately snapped a photo:
Energy Exchange
Allow me to be a bit geeky and look at the scientific definitions first.
I vaguely remember in biology we learned how the ecosystem of energy transfer, the food chain, works. I pulled up a quote from National Geographic:
Living things need energy to grow, breathe, reproduce, and move. Energy cannot be created from nothing, so it must be transferred through the ecosystem. The primary source of energy for almost every ecosystem on Earth is the sun. Primary producers use energy from the sun to produce their own food in the form of glucose, and then primary producers are eaten by primary consumers who are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, and so on, so that energy flows from one trophic level, or level of the…
