News is created and reported in real time – especially in a 24/7 news era. But, in the rush to deliver many of the reports can seem contradictory. The classic case is with nutrition and health, where certain foods are reported to be healthy one week, and then unhealthy the next. This quickly becomes confusing.
Reporting is essential to tell us what’s new and important. What it doesn’t do is provide a reasoned review within a framework that helps the reader decide if the information is relevant, truly important, accurate and why.
What it needs is context.
And although context is important with any information, it’s especially important to climate, energy and sustainability. Why? Because these phenomena by their very nature are context dependent.
An ecosystem is what a well knit organization of animal, vegetable, mineral, climate and energy is called. The function and character of an ecosystem depends on all of the elements that make it up, just like what the Galapagos Islands demonstrates (at least at the time when first observed by Darwin). What is found on the Galapagos could not occur anywhere else in the world for this very reason. The context is the ecosystem.
The name “Smarter Context” reflects the purpose of this blog, which is to provide more than just data. Instead, Smarter Context provides the analysis and narrative to make the data, news reports and studies relevant and applicable to you by providing the context. And it is our hope that the context provided is indeed smart.
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