Finding Joy in Sustainable Living – Leslie Hoffman
May 23rd, 2009 by admin
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/19/Fast_Life_Slow_Fashion_A_New_Theory_of_Fashion
Earth Pledge president Leslie Hoffman argues that modern life discourages thinking about the origins or effects of everyday consumption. “A New York kid could think that food comes from a waiter,” she says, “and nobody thinks about where it goes when we flush the toilet.” Hoffman believes that promoting an understanding of these processes can create enthusiasm for sustainable values and policies.
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Is fashion getting less flash and more substance? As sustainable production becomes a global concern, emerging vogues might tend more to simplicity.
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A panel of experts explores the complexities and sustainability of fast life and fast fashion in the 21st century – The New School
Leslie Hoffman, president and executive director of Earth Pledge, holds a degree in architecture and design, and worked as a carpenter and green builder for ten years. She has led the Earth Pledge team since 1994. Hoffman is an avid gardener who has maintained a small organic coffee farm in Hawaii since 1990.
Duration : 0:2:10
i’m uming the …
i’m uming the extinction of any other species by another would be a tragedy for you, but yet you relishing the idea of the demise of our species own by its hand? shame on you. how dare you treat our own deaths by our own short-sightedness with such puerile glee. what you’ve just proposed is no better than racism, homophobia, or religious bigotry. just because your bais is aimed at an entire species rather than a social group doesn’t make you just. it just makes you a selfrightous nihilist
sure and maybe you …
sure and maybe you should go make friends with monkeys and dolphins if you like them so much.
Extraordinary!
Extraordinary!
I couldn’t agree …
I couldn’t agree with you more. Any world view that sees humanity as possessors and “rulers” of the world destined to a “higher” life in the holy hereafter will create followers wholly alien to nature.
Whatever the cause, …
Whatever the cause, our continued stupidity will be our extinction. Imagine a paradise without humans a couple hundred years from now. Maybe a thousand. *happy sigh*
The problem of this …
The problem of this culture:
The desert dogmas, Christianity, Judaism, & Islam are anti-nature
Those religions put man at odd with nature – Thus, men of those religions will never find true balance in their life!
Don’t think too …
Don’t think too hard, its not that complex.
I think about them. …
I think about them. Its fascinating. (;