Sustainable?
People keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
posted by Ingrid at 5:01 PM
Monday, July 07, 2008
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- Name: Ingrid
- Location: United States
Relentless chocoholic. 70% cocoa, fair trade, and organic, please! When left alone in the house, Ingrid will bake. I love wildflowers (including dandelions), sunsets, and playing with fire. I get lost for hours in puzzles and magnetic poetry, take Scrabble way too seriously, and wield a crochet hook and a power saw with equal comfort. - - - - - - - - - - - Great quotation which I found, strangely enough, printed on the back of a Swedish bus ticket: "Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?" - Edward Young
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2 Comments:
Matt and I were just talking about that this morning. Except he was noting an even more overused word: "green."
There are so many buzzwords that maybe once meant something to someone, but have long since lost any real meaning by the time they're used to try to sell you something. Like "green," or "conservative" or "liberal." "Family-friendly." Or even "social responsibility" (that's the one that tries to sell me a $30 T-shirt at the Gap).
Yup. Another Princess Bride line applies: "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
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