Environment evening talk

ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS IN THE HOME:A NEW WAY OF APPROACHING HYGIENE

Kelly DombroskiDepartment of Environment and Geography

A NEW EARTH ERA

“If our species does not survive the ecological crisis, it will probably be due to a failure to imagine and work out new ways to live with the earth, to rework ourselves and our high energy, high consumption, and hyper-instrumental societies adaptively.

We will go onwards in a different mode of humanity, or not at all.”

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THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT

“What does it mean to be a developing country? Among other things it means that the future is to become developed.

We are on our way toward development, and we assume that’s a great thing, but let’s stop to consider for a minute whether developed countries are something we want to turn into.

Are people in developed countries happier or healthier? Do they live a better life? Do they have a better understanding of nature and live in a better equilibrium with the environment? Do they live in peace?”

We have been focusing our energy and resources on trying to solve our Developing World problems to become more like the First World.

But perhaps it is time that we, the so-called Third World minds, focused our energy and creativity on solving some of the First World problems.

We will have a brighter future to look forward to, and perhaps this can help us rethink and approach our current problems from a different perspective.

Carolina Vallejo www.designforthefirstworld.com

SOLUTIONS IN THE HOME?

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MORBID ADDICTIONS TO CLEANLINESS?

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卫生‘to guard life’

‘hygiene’

“Just sticking them in disposable nappies, that kind of sealing up I think is not good, too airtight!”

“If she got her clothes wet, then you just changed them. After all, she was just a child. It was natural for her to wet her clothes. Just wash the clothes, and change her into some new ones…[it] was not troublesome, no trouble at all. This is just what you have to do. No trouble.”

BREAKING THE ADDICTION

REHABITUATING THE BODY

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ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES

START IN THE HOME