Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
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DERRICK JENSEN (This article first appeared in the March 2003 issue of the Ecologist, www.theecologist.org)
Corporate life did not appeal; it was regarded as inauthentic, illegitimate, and toxic.
If we are going to take responsibility for our products from birth to rebirth, and if we encourage our customers to send in their pants for repair, and if at the end of their lives we promise to recycle them into other valuable products, then the smartest thing we can do is make those pants last as long as possible because you really don’t want to
... See moreThe first precept of industrial design is that the function of an object should determine its design and materials.
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. —Paul Cezanne
What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics. We have unlimited responsibility for the Total.