One of the myths most frequently repeated in defense of big agriculture, when people promote food sovereignty as an alternative, is that it simply isn’t sustainable for the volume of people living on Earth. The implication is that while it is nice for people to eat local when and where they can, it’s not realistic […]
Tag: sustainability
Putting A Spin On Food Waste
When I lived in the City, one of my favourite activities was to go dumpster diving, because you could find all sorts of amazing food in dumpsters without too much trouble. Some companies even made sort of a point of facilitating the process, without outright admitting that was what they were doing. Bread, chocolate, fresh […]
Living In A Disposable World: Who Needs Sustainable Design?
We live in a world where so many of the objects we used are intended to be disposed of, rather than used, repaired, recycled, and repurposed to get multiple lifetimes out of them. My cellphone, for example, will reach the end of its natural life and then I will send it away…somewhere…where I hope that […]
The Commodification, and Hipsterism, of Sustainability
I’ve lived around chickens for most of my life, with the exception of a brief period of living in the City. If I didn’t personally keep chickens, the neighbours did; right now, for example, we have a roaming flock of chickens that hangs out on the property. They belong to my landlords, but I look […]
The Best Brick Is the Brick You’ve Got
One of the things that has always bugged me about a lot of the certification programs intended to designate specific structures as ‘green’ is that they tend to focus entirely on new construction and new development. It’s about what new materials you can use to be environmentally friendly, how new designs can be made better, […]