Disentangling sources takes more than a week. No surprise. I've been looking at places to get news - http://www.sciencedaily.com/, the circa app as a sort of bullet-pointified google news, maybe http://bigthink.com/ - and to trace the news back to its source material. And I have hope for publications by http://www.ucsusa.org/. Aggregations and summaries.
A lot of talk about how bad things are getting, mixed messages about just how bad that is and how long we can afford to wait - is now too late? is now the last viable moment? will waiting 10 or 20 years be disastrous or just really really expensive? Very little talk about what doing something looks like, or could or should look like.
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I also acquired a book called 'It's not easy being green' (http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.net/), which was put together by 2 designers who spent 6 months traveling to various countries to talk with designers working on sustainable design projects. It consists of statements by the designers themselves, translated into English.
In the introduction, the writer points out what he sees as the three key priorities for sustainability:
1. He calls it 'micro-living', but basically points out that we (in developed countries) need to use *way* fewer resources than we do. And - especially from a design perspective - we need to do it in a way that feels like a good life. Doing more with less, rather than doing less with less...
2. Topsoil erosion, and specifically looking at how we can use our waste (biological and by extension all the rest of it) to nourish our ecosystems, rather than, well, wasting it. He mentions that we have developed a 'flush and forget' culture.
3. We gotta keep the bees alive.
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