Design for social innovations and sustainability
www.solutioning-design.net
www.sustainable-everyday.net
key points of sustainable consumption
- best selling books analyzed and found to have mostly useless tips (Bilharz, Lorek, and Schmitt)
hitchhike solidarity network --> promising sustainability, but it's niche
creative communities for sustainable lifestyles: workshops with design schools in Brazil, China, Africa
agri-tourism
neighborhood library
cooperative grocery stores
"foot-bus": elderly volunteers walk kids to and from school
tools to share kids clothes, tools
tools to ask neighbors to do shopping favors, to cut down on travel
co-housing and eco-villages as tourist opportunities
his point: creative communities aren't waiting for the "creative class" to solve their problems.
they are focused on solving their own problems.
these are small solutions, but they are also small steps that are sustainable because they are based on reciprocity.
moving away from the notion of single genius inventors; this collective small scale innovation.
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