Today I read an article on the Age news paper which totally made me jump. Click here for a link to the article.
It's not because my work revolves around sustainability, but it's because it just doesn't make much sense at all to not be green. Look, rising sea levels, record temperature levels... do we have to wait till the earth gets flooded beyond recognition before we realise "oh... damn. that was global warming".
A copy and paste of a few lines from the news reads:
" THE millions of dollars spent to make Melbourne more sustainable have all been a waste of money. Home owners changing shower heads, installing power-saving light globes and solar panels are wasting their time. Worse, they have inhibited creativity and the potential attractiveness and comfort of their homes and offices.
This will be the argument British author and architect Austin Williams will make when he delivers a speech at a State Government-sponsored forum in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Williams will tell the Alfred Deakin lecture at Federation Square on Tuesday that "sustainability is one of the most pernicious ideologies of our times". He's likely to receive a cool reception.
Williams will argue at the lecture, titled "Planning Cities of the Future", that sustainability is a dirty word, anathema to architecture and vibrant cities.
"To me sustainability is the first thing we have to get rid of before we can clearly have a vision of what the future could possibly be," he tells The Age. "
The statement came from the director of future cities project. Website to future cities is linked here. He will run out of a job if this world does not turn to sustainability.
What a jerk.
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