{"id":261,"date":"2009-02-19T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/sustainable-design\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:34:06","slug":"sustainable-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/sustainable-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good design is endearing.  When people like something, they keep it, and don&#8217;t replace it.  Well designed products tend to stick around &#8212; for <em>generations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, good design encourages reuse; discourages disposability.<\/p>\n<p>It may be <em>much more<\/em> costly, monetarily and environmentally, to build something outstanding.  An exceptional design can mean exceptionally difficult manufacturing.   But savings mount up over time, as the artifact endures, and eliminates many disposable products.<\/p>\n<p>I still shave with straight razors that are 60-80 years old.  Although manufacturing, say a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshaving.com\/page\/page\/846013.htm\">new Thiers-Issard razor<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thiers_Issard#Lead_hardening\">expensive<\/a>, the legions of disposable shavers it nullifies will grow for decades, possibly centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Good design really is good for the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good design is endearing. When people like something, they keep it, and don&#8217;t replace it. Well designed products tend to stick around &#8212; for generations. In this way, good design encourages reuse; discourages disposability. It may be much more costly, monetarily and environmentally, to build something outstanding. An exceptional design can mean exceptionally difficult manufacturing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,12],"tags":[84,357,356],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-design","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}