The Extraordinary Meaning of Social Sustainability

"SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY. This is not just about going green. This is about designing things that have a meaning so that we can be connected to them. We are so disconnected to what we buy. We do not care who makes it, where it comes from, or where it goes (just think about what you are wearing now).

If we did we might actually buy less. Our world economies need to stop using consumption to measure GDP. We are not measuring the harm, i.e. that it takes 10 calories of energy to make 1 calorie of food. And to be honest, we have nowhere to put all this stuff anymore.

As designers, we will be asked to understand the human story, not a consumer story. We need to move beyond product innovation and seek social innovation. Most of us still design to sell and not to solve. The future will require designing customized (not personalized) solutions that work for society as well as the individual. So, this is not just about how making too much stuff is environmentally unfriendly, it’s more about the one-to-one product transaction being an obsolete concept."

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A Movement

"If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and teach them(others) how to follow and if you find a lone-nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in."

With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started.Watch this 3 min video here.

Be A Late Developer

To Be A Late Developer

Set your own timetable
Don't allow others to dictate your pace
Benchmarks are for average people
You're an individual
You have your own individual rate of growth
Take the pressure off
Allow things to develop naturally
It's not important when you get there
What matters is that you get there

-It's Never Too Late..174 simple acts to change your life-Patrick Lindsay