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Thursday, October 16, 2008

William McDonough and Mr. Hawken are friends.

We read an article from last class, The Opportunity of Insignificance,which was written by Hawken from his book. It explains what are the six things that build up the sustainable businesses, I think one of factors relates to the Tedtalk which William McDonough gave is "Create objects of durability and long-term utility whose ultimate use or disposition will not be harmful to future generations."
In the begining of his speech, he askes "how can we secure local society, creat world peace and save the environment?" Later on, he thinks that, in order to do this, people have to design green architectures, and we still have growth, free energy from sunlight, and metabolism. He thought of a very amazing idea, building the New Chinese City, which with green roofs that people can farm on the roof, fresh water and fresh air. This new city will be built for 400 million people in 12 years. It is very good. This city will have the durability and long-term utility for farming and will not harm the future generation and enviroment.
"Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power- economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed." - William M

Spanish Song Reflection (2paragraghs=10 sentences)

Yo escribi cuatro frases y cambie los líricos. Arregle los liricos. Yo escribi la canción en cuatro dias. Yo creo que el tiempo era muy corto. El sketch era mi idea.

Me gustan los compañeros con quien yo trabaje. Yo toqué el piano. Kevin toco la
guitarra. Cante la canción. Coco nos ayudo con la canción. Me gusta la clase de español y profesora Fortune!!!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Waste Not Blog


An article, called Waste Not, which from the book Natural Capitalism, talks about how much natural resources people are using unnecessarily, such as Lithium for soft drink cans. It also talks about how many high educated people do underemployed jobs, such as doctor drives taxi, and how much money people are spending, such as car accidents charge health care costs, people can not go to their jobs, property damage, and judicial service costs. Human civilization is growing with a wasting system. "People are using too many resources to make too few people more productive", a quote from the book Natural Capitalism implies how people are wasting resources. These will not only damage the environment, but also decline the global economics effect.
I think there are lots of ways to connect the concepts of this article to my senior project- building a green business model. For example, I will trace back to all the products that I am going to sell, in order to make sure that there are no extra resources wasted during manufacture. I also have to be aware of not using any of the cheap labors. I will have to confirm that everything is made in Taiwan, because Taiwan's Labor Bureau has a better policy to avoid labors get low-paid. In the end, we will please people who have their own unique strength to do what they can do, such as Jim is good at making statistic, so we will ask him to help us account the money, and Eugene is good at drawing, so we will ask him to help us design some shirts. Everyone has their own special talents, so we can help them to let other people hear their voice. We are going to use the least nature resources to make the best and most efficient green business model!