IN THE VEIN OF BEING GREEN
Magazines are spurting out green issues in fast trend, but Vanity Fair is in it’s 3rd year running for its annual issue dedicated to all things Green, with Madonna gracing their cover.
Notably, the article on William McDonough, a man of architecture who instrumental to current sustainability and clean-technology movements is one of the most promising discussions. His view is, ‘If we understand that design leads to the manifestation of human intention, and if what we make with our hands is to be sacred and honor the earth that gives us life.' McDonough said there needs to exist a day ‘when the things we make must not only rise from the ground but return to it, soil to soil, water to water, so everything that is received from the earth can be freely given back without causing harm to any living system. This is ecology. This is good design. It is of this we must now speak.’
His stance is that products should be manufactured according to how they can be recycled, to feed the earth’s ‘biological metabolism’ as he calls it. We should be creating products that can be converted back into the earth’s nutrients, calling for a new industrial revolution to begin. As he calls it, ‘we need 400 kinds of French cheese, not French plastic’.
ALSO IN THE ISSUE:
Fish considered what-not-to-eat:
1. Bluefin Tuna, Yellowfish Tuna, and Bigeye Tuna – listed by the International Union for Conservatoion of Nature (I.U.C.N) as critically endangered
2. Chilean Sea Bass
3. Black Grouper
4. Beluga caviar
5. Red Snapper
6. Skate
7. Maine Wolffish
8. Peruvian seabass
9. Georges Bank cod (cod from Alaska is OK)
10. Pompano
11. New Zealand orange roughy
12. Baby swordfish (also known as ‘pups’)
13. Monkfish
14. Halibut
15. Shellfish depending on whether they are farmed or wild
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