Skimming a 1975 edition of Inside Today's Home, we spotted this passage which struck us as both ahead of its time and a reminder that the green movement wasn't born yesterday: A chair is a chair, but it is also a former tree or hide or chunk of metal or collection of chemicals. When it has ceased to function as a chair, it must go somewhere - up in smoke, into some other product, or simply to the top of an ever-more immense pile at the dump... Intelligent design takes into account the entire spectrum - the source of materials, the shaping of materials, and the return of materials to the environment.
posted originally from: AT:Chicago
- Ray and Sarah Faulkner
Image: 1951 Barstool by Emeco, LEED compliant, $380 at DWR
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Comments (3)
Wow, yes! Scary thing is that it's 22 years later and not much has been done to incorporate that thinking into our mass culture...Wow, yes! Scary thing is that it's 22 years later and not much has been done to incorporate that thinking into our mass culture...
Ok, don't know how that happened...
And here I thought you'd liked the sentiment so much you'd recycled it...