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Deep Green Design 

Our approach is holistic and we look for synergies wherever we can find these.

One method we employ is to scout the Internet with the deliberate intent of harvesting Serendipity.

That is how we discovered Tyler Disney of http://www.flowxrg.com/ and his Deep Green Design philosophy.

We look for comment that is interesting, regardless of the discipline.

It could be poetic or inspirational material that touches the Soul and helps lift the Green Zeitgeist or hard-core factual material, the black and white world of numbers.

Previously in our Articles section we have referred to:

Raam Dev’s idea of when “enough is enough” (i.e. when more is just sheer greed):

    http://raamdev.com/income-ethics-series

and also Mark Robertson’s merci article - the idea that bankers need to step back and give some serious thought to drastic ‘debt forgiveness’:

    http://www.mdrobertson.com/merci/ 

Greed is at the subject of both these two articles above and whilst we have no gripe with profit (we fully subscribe to the triple bottom line philosophy of planet, people, profit) often the greediest are those corporates who have with cunning gamesmanship ensured that government legislation favours them and impedes competition. 

In soccer it is called ‘shirt pulling’ in the penalty box!

Those who shout the loudest among these have mostly little or no interest in free markets.

They simply wish to protect their interests through the help of statutory legislation if necessary.

So it was with Apartheid South Africa, ‘bastion of the free market’ … or so they claimed!

Ensuring that labour could not move freely with the infamous pass laws! Artificial suppression of the cost of labour!

Using job reservation to protect the jobs of the race in charge! 

Using cultural and other proximity to government as a means to acquire massive state funded contracts. 

The corruption stank to the high heavens, all in the name of 'liberty'.

When the Koeberg nuclear power plant was built outside Cape Town, instead of using the market mechanism of the insurance industry in the event of an environmental disaster, the government of that time took on the compensation risk.

In other words it cheated the free market system and fell back on taxing its citizens even more so in the event of a nuclear disaster.

Taking the real free market cost of insurance at that time would have required building the power plant hundreds of miles away from Cape Town in sparsely populated areas.

That is how big businesses and governments all over the world collude, even when they proclaim themselves champions for free markets.

In the interests of ill gotten gains governments allowed for decades widespread pollution by industry, poisoning people and properties.

A purist free market approach would have held the polluters accountable!

Engineers mostly have said nothing or very little.

That is why an activist engineer like Tyler Disney is refreshing.

See more of what he has to say about Deep Green Design at: http://www.flowxrg.com/

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    • Lessons From Sandy
    • The Tao of Small World
    • Pride And Sustainability
    • The Venus Transit
    • From Silent Spring to a Green Spring?
    • Max Keiser's War On Financial Terrorism
    • Earthship Titanic?
    • Understanding Each Other
    • Greener Corporates and Fairer Taxes
    • Of Cavemen and Obamamobiles
    • Chocolate Slavery
    • Green Metrics
    • The "Subversive Doctrine of Social Responsibility"
    • GM Labelling Not Yet Being Complied With In South Africa
    • Al Gore
    • Total Recall
    • Sustainability >
      • Income Through Recycling
      • Measurement Is Key For Sustainability
      • Sustainability In A World Of 7 Billion Plus
      • For Sustainability We Need Freedom
      • Why Waste?
      • Flushing Sustainability Down The Toilet!
      • Green Collars
    • Poodwaddle World Clock
    • Philosophy >
      • The Wonderful Ancient Wisdom Of Wu Wei
      • Small Is Beautiful
      • Green Is Gentle
      • Serendipity
      • Staying On The T, Working Creatively With The Flow
      • Embracing The Human Family
      • Mercy - Sustainability Promoting
    • Leadership >
      • The Emerging Boss Less World
      • Leadership In The Age Of Green
    • Justice >
      • Sustainable Justice
      • Of Vlad The Impaler (The Unsustainability Of Our Justice System)
  • Resources
  • Green Zeitgeist
    • Visually Green
    • YouTube Green >
      • Canto Della Terra
      • Earth Song
      • Woodstock
      • Imagine
      • San Francisco
      • Dust In The Wind
      • Guinnevere
      • Perfect Day
      • Nice To Be Here
    • Green Poetry >
      • Passage To India
      • Leaves of Grass
      • Earth As We Knew It
      • Joy Shipmate Joy
      • Blue Daze
      • The Silent Village
      • Midori's Frog
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        • Friendship
        • Tribute To Mika Yamamoto
      • Poems By Miry Allegri >
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        • The Sparrow
      • Poems By Mike Shaw >
        • Looking Back ...
        • The Hidden Sun
        • No Man's Land
      • The Light Of Dawn
      • Poems By Mary Montalvo >
        • Mother Earth
        • Water
        • An Indigo Sky
        • The Fire Within
        • Waterfall
        • The River
        • Mountains
        • Clouds
        • Trees
        • Nature
        • Cosmos
        • The Fawn
        • Butterfly
        • The Coming Storm
        • The Painting Poet
      • Poems By Marie Hélène Visconti >
        • Seasons Of Haikus
        • Spring Haiku Bouquet
      • Poems By Claudine de Fay >
        • The Lament Of The Earth Dreamers
      • Marie Colvin
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      • Poems By Julian Carmichael >
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        • Dandelions
        • Le Malge (Meadows)
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        • Madonna Dei Sassi
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        • Green Spirit!
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        • The Edge And The Sea
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