Sustainability

Imagine every product as having a “weight” of environmental impact, arising from its production, transport, use, and disposal. The principle of “lightness” says a sustainable approach needs to addresses all these relationships, not just the “end-of-pipe” product.

Any industrialized institution will go through two watershed moments. At first, its progress provides clear and substantial benefits to society. But second, its overdevelopment begins to run counter to its original goal and in fact becomes destructive to society.