today the electricity went out in our house and a few houses down. everything shut off and i heard a loud boom from not too far off. i took a shower, thinking about the future and possibly not having any lights later on. what i didn't realize is that our water pump for the well runs on electricity...
”There are few professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few… by creating whole new species of permanent garbage to clutter up the landscape, and by choosing materials and processes that pollute the air we breath, designers have become a dangerous breed… In this age of mass production when everything must be planned and designed, design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and, by extension, society and himself). This demands high social and moral responsibility from the designer.” --this is excerpted from sustainableday.com, presumably from william mcdonough, a speaker at the 2005 isda conference.
good to know: to build the average american house requires an acre of trees. built with bamboo the same house uses only as much wood as square footage of the proposed house. bamboo can be harvested in 5-7 years, while other trees take 20-50 years. and bamboo doesn't die when it is cut
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