paradigm shift

At last, Naresh Giangrande has made the first useful post on Copenhagen arguing for complete systems change. At least someone understands!

We can moan at politicians, we can protest and fight the police but none of these actions are going to change the way the world works. Naresh points out that: "We are faced with a system that cannot and will not make the changes necessary to create a resilient world in the face of climate change and peak oil. It would go against everything the system is designed for." That, in a nutshell, is the central problem with any kind of political debate, rationing scheme, trading mechanism or other 'solution' being propossed. So what can you do?

This is re-posting of an old article originally entitled 'Vanquish The Vatican' and published on February 4th, 2005

Of all the conventions which shape the modern world our interpretation of time is paramount. We live, work and play according to the rules of ‘man-made’ or Gregorian time.

This book re-writes the script. Studying a degree in Product Design at Central St Martin's completely convinced me that designers are all moral-less, capitalists twits and this book actually made me reconsider that view!
The basic premise is this: We can design ANYTHING we need to be COMPLETELY sustainable.

Now that just about re-writes the design brief of everything that has ever been made and implies if it isn't 100% sustainable it has failed the fundamental design challenge.