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  1. Visit 'The rise and rise of 'anti-design'' Martyn Perks, spiked, 21 August 2008 'The rise and rise of 'anti-design'' Martyn Perks, spiked, 21 August 2008

    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5604/

    [Notes Philippe Starck conversion to green design.] [W]hat underpins the general shift towards green design is a widespread sense of guilt and self-doubt felt by many designers about blighting the world with too much stuff. The paradox is that the… More

  2. Visit Opinion 'Rachel Carson - deadlier than Stalin?' Robert Matthews, The First Post, May 8, 2006 Opinion 'Rachel Carson - deadlier than Stalin?' Robert Matthews, The First Post, May 8, 2006

    http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/5854,opinion,rachel-carson-deadlier-than-stalin

    [The Rachel Carson-inspired] ban on DDT... robbed developing nations of a cheap, safe and effective means of combating malaria, which kills two million people each year... By the mid-1980s [Carson's claims] had been utterly discredited. Yet by the… More

  3. Visit 'Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth', Brendan O'Neill, spiked, 27 December 2007. 'Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth', Brendan O'Neill, spiked, 27 December 2007.

    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4217/

    In his Christmas sermon, delivered at Canterbury Cathedral, [Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams]... talked about our role as janitors on planet Earth, who must stop plundering the ‘warehouse of natural resources’ and ensure that we clean u… More

  4. Visit 'Designing the Future' Newsweek, May 16, 2005 'Designing the Future' Newsweek, May 16, 2005

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/52058

    ]Interview with William McDonough.] [McDonough is] not your traditional environmentalist. Others may expend their energy fighting for stricter environmental regulations and repeating the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle." McDonough's vision for the … More

  5. Visit 'Like it or not, thou shalt recycle thy rotting food' Mick Hume, The Times, August 28, 2007 'Like it or not, thou shalt recycle thy rotting food' Mick Hume, The Times, August 28, 2007

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article2337296.ece

    [On compulsory recycling.] Free societies rarely make things compulsory, preferring to rule out what we may not do rather than dictate what we must... I object to such compulsion because it trashes freedom of choice and wastes my most precious res… More

  6. Visit 'Forget the high-rise slums of the past. Building upwards not outwards is the way ahead' Germaine Greer, Guardian, Art & Architecture section, July 31, 2007 'Forget the high-rise slums of the past. Building upwards not outwards is the way ahead' Germaine Greer, Guardian, Art & Architecture section, July 31, 2007

    http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2138254,00.html

    [Residential towers are in vogue, but] Add the word "block" to the word "tower" and you get squalor. Architecturally, the block is usually a stack of undersized boxes, built cheaply but not economically, poorly finished, connected by dangerous and… More

  7. Visit 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible' James Woudhuysen, spiked, 16 August 2007 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible' James Woudhuysen, spiked, 16 August 2007

    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3731/

    In spring 2007, researchers commissioned by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) interviewed 3,600 English people [for a survey of public attitudes and behaviours toward the environment]... The survey’s seemingly contr… More

  8. Visit 'Seeing people as a plague on the planet' James Heartfield, spiked, 9 May 2007 'Seeing people as a plague on the planet' James Heartfield, spiked, 9 May 2007

    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3337/

    The Optimum Population Trust’s claim that having a large family is an eco-crime exposes the anti-human streak in green politics... There is a default to extremism that is written into environmentalism. And that is not surprising. If you hold that … More

  9. Visit Video: Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Recycling, Aug 5, 2006, 29 min 25 sec Video: Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Recycling, Aug 5, 2006, 29 min 25 sec

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7734998370503499886

    Penn and Teller humourous documentary critiquing the recycling movement. Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance: "Recycling is perhaps the most multi-gender, multi-race, movement in the country's history." If you want to do something that… More

  10. Visit Audio: Environmentalism item, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 5 February 2007 Audio: Environmentalism item, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 5 February 2007

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20070205.shtml

    Wangari Maathai founder of the Green Belt Movement: we should be concerned about the environment because "Jesus was crucified on a tree"... 22m: Michael Portillo "Environmentalism has already come dangerously close to being a religion, without bei… More

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