Tag sustainability

This Umwelt is Worth Fighting For

David Stairs

With each passing year, as the realization is brought home to us just how misdirected industrial capitalism is, the names of certain visionaries come to mind as exemplars of how we need to think in order to design the survival of humanity…. Continue Reading →

Covering the Cost

David Stairs
Affluence isn’t free.

Giraffes at a gallop on the Serengeti, Tanzania
In May 2019 the UN released a report about the state of the natural world. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reported that species are going extinct at an unprecedented rate,… Continue Reading →

Apple vs. Design

Carter Scholz
In the prehistory of personal computers, Lee Felsenstein and some others created Community Memory in Berkeley in 1974: a publicly available teletype terminal, connected to a mainframe computer via 110-baud modem. Users could post and read messages at a few different sites…. Continue Reading →

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