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Ouch. That's pretty heavy. From a paradise to industrial civilization to a desert wasteland. It is just one of the many possible effects global warming will have on the earth.

Fumi Masuda -
“We should not sustain society as it is, but change society for sustainability.�
Masuda’s quote reflects my values as I believe we need to change pretty much all aspects of our current society in order to ensure a survivable future.

Bob Willard -
“Saving the world is not on the list of business opportunities�
“The biggest threat to national security is climate change�
I found Willard’s contradictory statements intriguing because it may have short-term costs for businesses to change for sustainability, yet the costs to businesses in the long run will be far greater if change is not generated.

Dee Hock -
“The problem is never how to get new ideas into your mind, but to get the old ones out.�
How very true. Habits both good and bad are severely difficult to break especially if they have become engrained in a culture. Individuals and groups of people can easily come up with new ideas relative to implementing them.

Alvin Toffler -
“You’ve got to think about “big things� when you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.�
All of the “little things� from turning off lights in a room you’re not using to eating less meat add up to help the cause. Individuals are the ones who create change, not institutions.

Albert Einstein -
“The world we have is the product of our way of thinking.�
Ah yes, the one and only Einstein. He actually has several quotes which encapsulate the sustainable movement. I found this thought fascinating because it goes back to the idea that design designs us and therefore we need to design a world which is able to keep, shall I say, turning.

Philippe Starck -
“The veneration of progress for its own sake has resulted in a world where things take precedence over people.�
I am always mystified by how American society views “progress� and definitely “success� in terms of money and “things.� Personally, I prefer different cultural views such as the Guatemalan (which I have visited a couple times) view of success as simply caring for family.

Edwin Datchefski -
“We should redesign everything�
This is a wildly radical statement. I like it. If you really stop to think about it, everything could be redesigned an infinite number of times and still never be perfect.

Well, when I looked for music in my iTunes collection, I had an interesting time searching for music which connects to sustainability. Some of these songs seriously stretch it, but that's half the fun. I chose Proud Earth because of the Native Americans' link to nature and their great care for sustainability. Solla Sollew, A New Life, and Go the Distance all sort of tell about the potential for a better society, and the greatest potential utopia of today is a world of sustainability. Ignition, Redneck Yacht Club, and His Cheeseburger all tell tales of our consumerist society here in America. Every Rose has its Thorns and Jocob's Dream tell of how the wilderness can be a cruel place and thus some people don't care about saving it. The song from Somewhere that's Green, from the musical Little Shop of Horrors realy amazes me, because the singer talks about a suburban green area (as in gardens and a lawn). Most people think of nature and "green" areas as a forest or something similar. I find it intriguing that the suburbs can be thought of as green. In fact, people moved to the suburbs to get out of downtown areas and have more space on the outskirts of the city. Something else to ponder. Also, I just couldn't resist including a song refering to New Orleans (in that it's a prime place to practice sustainable design in the rebuilding process).

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Silent Summer

Years advance and spring waters dry
Seasons change and time goes by
Overgrowth of oceans destroys new life
Altering climate causes fresh strife
Clouded fields of wasted intentions
Slowly destroy a world of many dimensions
Green turns to brown turns to black and red
Everything once living now is dead
Biodiversity shrinks and fades
Existence all around slowly degrades
To our deadly habits we all became slaves
Slowly we all have dug our own graves
We know what to do we know how to change
Old paradigm values we need to exchange
We have but two choices we are stuck in a cage
Soon will arrive the dawn of a new age

The "unfortunate truth" of environmental problems is a very serious crisis; however, there is always room for a little bit of humor.