There are some days when I just spot things that are completely at odds with each other and make me seriously doubt our ability to make any sense as a species. Ok, maybe that’s too grand a statement, but seriously…<\/p>\n
One the one hand we know we should be concerned about sustainability<\/a> and the earth’s resources, global warming<\/a> and our general position as a dominating species. Agreed? Ok so why on earth do we let technological advancement go against those concerns? Just because it’s technology, doesn’t mean it has to be dirty!<\/p>\n Projects such as this one<\/a>, this one<\/a>, and what was recently revealed<\/a> are just unimaginative.<\/p>\n The mistake people make is assuming that making something green is hard and not a necessary requirement. Well i think it’s just lazy, irresponsible and short-sighted on the part of anyone who designs these days not to take sustainability in consideration. I mean just think of the marketing around your new product, would you rather be known as “the first green (insert name of product)” or “just another fossil-fuel based (insert name of product)”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some days when I just spot things that are completely at odds with each other and make me seriously doubt our ability to make any sense as a species. Ok, maybe that’s too grand a statement, but seriously… One the one hand we know we should be concerned about sustainability and the earth’s… Continue reading The long way to making sense.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-2O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}