Architecture & Design &Globalisation Entropy | 22 Mar 2009
Wordchanging
Worldchanging.com is enlightening website to explore.. We all need to be aware and contribute our bit for the cause of our own future and planet ..
Our things define us.
What we buy, what we use, what we keep and throw away, what we waste, and what we save: the stuff that surrounds us and flows through our lives is a key indicator of the kinds of lives we’re living. To be an affluent twenty-first-century person is to float on a sea of material objects – each with its own history and future.
They may be hidden from our eyes, but in practical global terms, those histories and futures tend to be the most important aspects of the stuff we own.
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.
From consumer consciousness to a new vision for industry; non-toxic homes to refugee shelters; microfinance to effective philanthropy; socially responsible investing to starting a green business; citizen media to human rights; ecological economics to climate change, this is the most comprehensive, cutting-edge overview to date of what’s possible in the near future — if we decide to make it so.
on 26 Mar 2009 at 6:13 am 1.Ryan said …
So well said. How we use things can be a great indicator of what we value, and how much we value it.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
Ryan