[Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn]

>they like what they see
>they want to be cool like other (forward thinking) people
>they see personal advantage (health, $, etc.)

Makes me think of Mary Poppins' "Spoonful of sugar makes the medicine
go down" song. I'm definitely more pessimistic. That kind of behavior
applies to fashion statements like the Prius but IMO and from what I
can see of history, the game changing behaviors happen out of pure
necessity.
I remember a quote from a Native American Indian in the book Manahatta
that went something like, "We moved camp whenever the stink became
unbearable."
Only collectively we can't move planets.

Gennaro Brooks-Church
Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.
Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231


On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:25 PM, David Bergman <bergman at cyberg.com> wrote:
> At 11:05 PM 7/22/2012, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:
>
> I think that forward thinking people discover better ways to do things.
> The rest of society only follows when they are forced to.
>
>
> I think there's more to it than that. People also tend to follow when:
>
> they like what they see
> they want to be cool like other (forward thinking) people
> they see personal advantage (health, $, etc.)
>
> These "carrot" methods, arguably, work much better than the stick of
> requiring people to change.
>
> BTW, this is a significant part of what I'm going to be writing about in my
> new blog, EcoOptimism ( www.Ecooptimism.com).
>
> David Bergman  RA   LEED AP
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