{"id":6402,"date":"2010-11-09T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:21:57","slug":"on-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/on-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"On sustainability&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vancouver, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eric Karjaluoto posted a thoughtful piece on <em>Sustainability<\/em> today on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasonideas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ideasonideas<\/em><\/a>, worth reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasonideas.com\/2010\/11\/your-bank-balance-is-at-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Among other things, he questions \u201cownership\u201d and the burdens that come with it\u2026 and he closes as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">\u201cOne of the things we do own is our legacy. Long after we\u2019re worm food, the things we\u2019ve done, said, thought, and fought for, will remain. A rental culture is better in tune to this actuality than one locked in in the illusion of ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Your decision to give back to your community will impact the lives of others. Your decision to not drive a car will extend our species\u2019 stay on the planet, and the quality of it. Your choice to do more than collect a private mountain of riches will afford you time to consider the needs of others and seek to understand them. This last point will pay out greater dividends than owning any object adorned with a \u201cdesirable\u201d logo. (For what it\u2019s worth, when I see a Louis Vuitton handbag, I\u2019m not impressed; I just see a sucker. Same goes for your BMW).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">All of us, from the dawn of time to the end of our existence (and beyond) are connected. We\u2019re all drawing from the same pool, which means you can\u2019t actually own anything. Such a notion is solely a remnant of a less sophisticated and socially evolved time. That being said, you can experience almost anything, and if you\u2019re crafty, may never even have to pay for some of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>Isn\u2019t that infinitely better?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, Canada Eric Karjaluoto posted a thoughtful piece on Sustainability today on his blog ideasonideas, worth reading here. Among other things, he questions \u201cownership\u201d and the burdens that come with it\u2026 and he closes as follows: \u2026 \u201cOne of the things we do own is our legacy. Long after we\u2019re worm food, the things we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}