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Tagged with “consumption” (4)

1. 99% invisible 11: 99% undesigned (but still evil)

   Almost everything in modern life is designed to waste energy. The whole system evolved on a false premise that petroleum is cheap and plentiful and will be that way forever. The awesome Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on The Brain and a fellow at the New America Foundation, talks us through the design of a world that completely disregards the perils of oil consumption and how new designs are meant to make us all more content with the mess we’ve made.

   From http://invisible99.podbean.com/2010/11/24/99-invisible-11-99-undesigned/

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   Tagged with design consumption oil environment book:author=lisa margonelli book:title=oil on the brain

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2. To The Best Of Our Knowledge - To Sprawl Or Not To Sprawl

   Subdivisions. Industrial Parks. Strip Malls. Gridlock. Sprawl is socially unequal, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Right? In this hour of To the Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll look at the costs and – YES – the benefits of suburban sprawl. Because maybe, just maybe, sprawl is a good thing.

   Joel Hirschhorn is a critic of sprawl. Robert Bruegmann thinks sprawl is very American way to live. Photographer Edward Burtynsky documented Chinese industrial zones, and film maker Jennifer Baichwal documented the trip. Tom Perrotta’s novels feature life in the suburbs.

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   Tagged with sprawl suburbs suburbia land use consumption environmentalism suburban industrial america american

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3. Bruce Sterling at Reboot 11

   Bruce Sterling - reboot 11 closing talk On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading

   http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11

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   Tagged with bruce sterling reboot declutter goth gothic high tech favela chic future strategy consumption meaning collapse disorder technology

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4. Cities, Design and Climate Change

   With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world’s cities. Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and NYU. Jonathon Porritti s the chair of the sustainable development commission and founder and director of Forum for the Future.

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   Tagged with cities urban planning sustainability design suburbs consumption consumers products waste green environment nature

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