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ated: carburetor with cheddar and bacon and chunky chocolate soy milk
listening: rune factory soundtrack
anticipating: watching darjeeling limited in bed
p.
xo
ated: carburetor with cheddar and bacon and chunky chocolate soy milk
listening: rune factory soundtrack
anticipating: watching darjeeling limited in bed
p.
xo
1 comment:
Hi P
I agree with you.
One of the problems is that consumers end up paying more for sustainable products because the true cost of cheaper products (environmental damage, exploitation of desperate people) is not factored in.
Consumers need to be better informed, but until the sustainable choice costs less than the detrimental choice, the means and/or the imperative to do the right thing may not be enough. I like one of the solutions proposed in The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, the "intelligent product system"
To paraphrase, products fall into 3 categories:
1. consumable products i.e clothing, food which need to be manufactured entirely from biodegradable materials
2. service products i.e. refrigerators, cars
would be licensed to the buyer and when they are no longer useful would be taken back by the manufacturer to be reused and/or recycled
3. unsaleable products i.e toxic chemicals, radiation
need to be eliminated but until then government has the responsibility of the safest storage possible entirely at the expense of the manufacturer.
If manufacturers have to bear the cost of recycling materials and storage of toxins (forever), the theory is that this will affect design.
love your blog
keep at it
c
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