Updated: 9/10/06; 11:38:08 PM.
Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Thursday, May 8, 2003

[RiskWorld]: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has disclosed that 74 percent of U.S. publicly traded corporations they surveyed openly violate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) environmental financial debt accounting regulations.

Another of the many ways we subsidize environmental degradation. What decisions would companies make if they had to pay -- or at least book -- the true costs of their actions.
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The EPA Office of Solid Waste, and MBDC have announced a design challenge to rethink and redesign e-commerce shipping packaging for a cradle-to-cradle life cycle. The design challenge is specifically targeted at the shipping packaging associated with the suburban home delivery of Internet purchases of books, including systems for packaging recovery.
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Rem Koolhaus [what a GREAT name for an architect!] on Charlie Rose, talking about many things -- including developing Europe's visual identity -- offered an interesting observation that an Israel-Palestine settlement will need to go beyond the historic "two dimensional," line on a map notion of borders to something more three dimensional and structural. "Bridges and tunnels" I think he said, but "more flexible and situational" is what I heard -- different degrees of boudnary for different realms of relationship. A kind of geographic topology perhaps. Boundaries as semi-permeable membranes.

The topological angle recalls a strongly imprinted experience from my memory as a three year old living in Cleveland. We entered a building -- large, open, multi-story interior, with balconies or parapets around (like a modern indoor mall, tho this was early 1950s) -- from the street, descended several floors inside, and exited to the street. This may well have been a building on a hill, for all I know, or may never have happened. But the experience -- and the strong visual image of that interior space -- has remained with me. Might be some of what feeds my strong sense of Possibility. (And space-folding. :-)
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