[Greenbuilding] What "the good life" is

[David Bergman]

Hi Sanjay,

It's a major issue to be sure. But I'm not willing to concede defeat.

David

At 03:28 PM 7/23/2012, sanjay jain wrote:
> >These are important points to discuss. I'm thinking of "desirable" 
> in perhaps
> >a broader sense. How do we make smaller homes desirable? Or urban living?
> >Or reduced consumption/materialism?  In other words, how we change our
> >habits and our image of what "the good life" is?
>
>Sorry, you're unlikely to affect people's thinking as long as there 
>are powerful commercial interests that need people to buy their 
>crap.... tobacco being the most obvious example.
>
>~sanjay
>
>
>
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