Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Live, Consume, Die.. or another way?

I just read of a chap in the US who is collecting everything he would normally have thrown away. He's piling it in heaps by type; packaging, junk mail, etc. to give a clear picture of what we use just in ordinary living, what it cost to get to us, and how far it came, so he can get a good idea of his personal carbon footprint.

This video is another way of looking at the same conundrum; what to do with our crazy distribution system that brings things from one end of the earth to the other, iun the name of convenience and (chortle) economy.

Check it out here.

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