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| Originally a wacko, hippy-esque ideology, ‘sustainability’ - aka ‘eco-friendly’ or ‘green’ - has now become globally accepted. But as what - an environmental urgency, a political issue, a technical problem, a historic destiny, a new world order? And what are the consequences of this acceptance? The sustainability consensus is dangerous since the concept has no political content and can be used for any cause. Carbon neutrality and zero emissions are like magic formulas, cover-ups for complicated ethical questions about the inequalities in our societies.Yet striving for zeros or hiding in neutrality does not lead to a better life in a more desirable house in a superior city for everyone. This dossier continues the Sustainability blog, a collaboratively edited blog by Volume and Abitare. |
This is the first of the FWD series, which summarizes hand picked content I find elsewhere on the web and would like to share with you. from the In the Shadow of Progress a picture show on the GOOD website. The stark reality of this moment in time is that many people are losing their [...]
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 26-08-2009 |
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Too good, not to share. A beautifully crafted animated infographic clearly making the point in favor of eating local produce, and illustrating the consequences of our globalized food industry. The video was produced by Canadian food movement mayonnaise brand: Hellmann’s Hellman’s – It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo. via information aesthetics
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 14-07-2009 |
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Review of the Foodprint Symposium
| Posted by Jeroen Beekmans on 08-07-2009 |
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Largely hidden from the view of the city dweller, a worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains takes care of our supply of daily food. This is very convenient, but it is also the cause of many problems. A handful of distributors decides what we eat. For the most part the people who produce [...]
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 16-06-2009 |
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Thursday 19 March From wacko hippy-esk ideology, ‘sustainability’, or ‘eco-friendly’, or ‘green’ has now become globally accepted. But, as what? As an environmental urgency, as a political issue, as a technical problem, as a historical destiny, or as a new world order? And with which consequences? The sustainability consensus is dangerous, since the concept has [...]
| Posted by Jeroen Beekmans on 13-03-2009 |
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bookmarked on: Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 06:48 | Organoponicos: Thriving Urban Agriculture in Cuba
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:21 | Slow Money & Nurture Capitalism | trackchanges by Continuum
“I’m just a regular person who thinks everything is out of control.”
This is how Woody Tasch, author of the new book Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered and founder of the burgeoning Slow Money Alliance, began his talk last week to a group attending Boston’s Slow Food meeting.
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 10:07 | Eye blog » Power vacuum, part one. Victor Margolin on design and sustainability
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lucid thinker and vivid critic, shared some critical thoughts with Ksenija Berk last winter, in this two-part interview. His overview of basic ideas in design thinking brought to light some thoughts that could foster positive change in society – and in design itself, which all too often forgets its chief goal: the wellbeing of all mankind.
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 10:07 | Eye blog » Power vacuum, part two. More on design and sustainability. Eye blog interview with Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lucid thinker and vivid critic, shared some critical thoughts with Ksenija Berk last winter. Part two of a two-part interview (part one published yesterday).
bookmarked on: Thursday, 30 July 2009, 03:34 | Mud Baron
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