<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv122906139"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_1343077726825126"><span id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682583">I didn't mean to suggest you concede defeat</span>. <span id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682583">But it needs to be said that we need to be aware of the larger issue...<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br></span><span></span></div><div id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_1343077726825186"><span id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682583">~sanjay<br></span></div><br><br><div><br id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682553"></div> <div class="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682556" id="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682558" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv122906139yui_3_2_0_20_134307772682565" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr">
<font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Bergman <bergman@cyberg.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk>; Green Building <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 23, 2012 4:05 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Greenbuilding] What "the good life" is<br> </font> </div> <br>
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Hi Sanjay,<br><br>
It's a major issue to be sure. But I'm not willing to concede
defeat.<br><br>
David<br><br>
At 03:28 PM 7/23/2012, sanjay jain wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="yiv122906139cite" cite="">>These are important points
to discuss. I'm thinking of "desirable" in perhaps<br>
>a broader sense. How do we make smaller homes desirable? Or urban
living?<br>
>Or reduced consumption/materialism? In other words, how we
change our<br>
>habits and our image of what "the good life" is?<br><br>
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. <br><br>
~sanjay<br><br>
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