The Green Revolution Will Not Be Televised

[mayfly_78]

As I might have mentioned, last week I spent three whole days at the Ecobuild exhibition. It's all about sustainable and green design and construction. There are hundreds of exhibitors, dozens of seminars and lectures and conferences.

[Cut for thinky thoughts]It all makes you think that if so many people and companies and practices are into sustainable design, and if the

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[lordes]

We live in a society of want and greed, instead of need. There's a huge difference, and it's a sad thing people don't see it.

[mayfly_78]

That's the thing, isn't it? Our whole society is built on the wrong basis. I keep on hoping the revolution will come that will shake that up.

[lordes]

I am hoping we get some kind of disaster, cities falling, economy destroyed, money worthless. Back to riding a horse to get from a to b, or walking, back to freedom and travelling without borders, back to no goverment who decides what you do and where you are and most of all, no society based on consuming.

[lokifan]

What's odd to me is that in the UK, green is very mainstream - personal CO2 creation has gone down every year for a quite a few years. It's business that drives up the emissions, but I do think people would support more demands on business when we're making changes ourselves.