Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics
The greatest crisis in human history may require imagining ways of living—not just of energy production but of daily habit—that we have never seen before. How do we begin to imagine such a household?
-Noah Gallagher Shannon, New York Times
The problems we face will not be fixed at the level of the individual life. We all know this because none of us have changed our own lives anywhere near enough to make a difference. Where would we start? With our commute? With candles? Life is already hard. Solutions will need to be implemented at a higher level of organisation. We fear this. We kn... See more
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How we live our lives, how we choose to move around the world and consume, has effects: Maybe we just feel slightly better, maybe we influence change in our immediate communities, maybe that change in our communities causes local policy change and eventual regulation of deeply destructive industries.
Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New
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