Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
The end of consumer culture?
30 Jan 2008Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself to provide value and sustainability while still creating desire? When I was at Northwestern, I took some classes from a Professor of Philosophy, David Michael Levin, who once asked us whether having a choice was [...]
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants
In: Environment
16 Oct 2007I just read an interesting conversation between Tom Philpott (of Maverick Farms) and Michael Pollan on Grist. Pollan is best known as the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemna, and he’s been working on a new book called “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” which is due out in January. According to Pollan, the basic [...]
inhabitating the planet.
In: Design|Environment
26 Jul 2007Inhabitat is a well-designed site that talks up ecodesign. They say that good design is green design, and green design is good design. Bully for that. Recently, inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher conducted a panel with Allan Chochinov of Core 77, Susan Szenasy of Metropolis, and Graham Hill of treehugger.com. Though the reel is a few [...]
Save the earth, one veggie burger at a time
In: Environment
20 Feb 2007Today’s Christian Science Monitor has an article entitled Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet which argues that the easiest way to improve the environment is to cut back on eating meat. According to the article: Researchers at the University of Chicago compared the global warming impact of meat eaters with that of vegetarians and [...]
All is Grist for the Mill
In: Environment
23 Jan 2007Who says environmentalists can’t have a sense of humor? I actually look forward to getting my “weekly grist”, and not just to find out what horrors have been wrought on the world’s ecosystems. The writing hits a good tone, one that combines humor, insight, and activism. Grist has some insightful columnists (this week’s Ask Umbra [...]
Denver (Green) Development
In: Denver|Environment
11 Dec 2006Local designer and friend Jenny Thomas has a post on worldchanging.com today about greenprint denver, which is mayor hickenlooper’s approach to sustainable development in the city. Jenny seems pretty positive about the project, saying that Denver may be “poised to become a leader in energy efficiency.” Here’s hoping. Also, the Denver infill blog has information [...]
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- tl: Tibor Kalman and at least one of his disciples, Sagmeister have wrestled with the foibles of materia [...]
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