[Greenbuilding] What "the good life" is

[sanjay jain]

I didn't mean to suggest you concede defeat. But it needs to be said that we need to be aware of the larger issue...

I dabble in 3 movements, environment, non-violence (vegan) and open-source. To me they are all of the same mindset - which is you put your own needs in perspective of the need of others and the greater good. 

Yet, people in each of these movement tend not to care too much about the others. If we realized that we need to address the bigger picture as well as our pet cause, we might have a better chance at success. 


~sanjay





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 From: David Bergman <bergman at cyberg.com>
To: sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk>; Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] What "the good life" is
 

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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