<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/25caeff2-87ec-4209-a81e-72579a458fa0/C5664F95-A7B8-466A-826C-57BBD0E913A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/"><H3>I was surprised to find out that I am a planet fucker…. and I have bad news for you…. You are all planet fuckers too!</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/"><P>A cultural shift needs to happen. Instead of mass consumption, people need to focus on a culture of heirloom products, or in other words, a culture of maintenance of repair rather than buying new. Saul admitted that consumer electronics is the hardest field to make this change, because of the culture of planned obsolescence and the need to upgrade gadgets to a newer and faster model every year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/"><H3>There is no “away” anymore — When you throw something ‘away’… that ‘away’ is your backyard.</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/27/greener-gadgets-2009-liveblog/"><P> You have to be highly aware of this as a designer,” Saul said. He even proposed a new title for the <STRONG><A href="http://www.greenergadgets.com">Greener Gadgets Conference</A></STRONG> — saying that in an effort to support products that would last for 20 years, we should change the name to <STRONG>‘Greener Electronic Object d’ Arts’.</STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C5664F95-A7B8-466A-826C-57BBD0E913A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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