Monday, February 12, 2007

Fourth R

This will be a very short post today.

It's simply to add in one more R to the three R's of green practice. At present our consumption model is (attempting) to model itself as:
reduce
reuse
recycle.

I would like to throw in another: recover.

This is the R that allows for the reuse of recycled materials.

And it is essential in a society that constructs obsolete products.

The ideal, of course, would be to remove the fourth R and simply recreate sustainable, and long-lasting products...but that would require a Q in the equation: Quality.

1 comment:

Paul Wolfe said...

How about reinvent?