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Love What Gives You Air
Precious trees. You spoil us with shade, natural air conditioning, water filtration and retention, oxygen, carbon sequestration, habitat, sound absorption and calming beauty. Your incredible functions make life on this planet possible, and you provide all of these benefits, free of charge. Our reliance on you doesn’t stop once you’re felled. Your wood, the natural resource you grew while freely giving us air to breathe, is an incredible and beautiful material from which we build our homes, our fences, and our furniture. These meaningful, long term investments can stand the test of time because of your material quality. Though wooden products can last for generations, humans are operating on ever…
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Creative Destruction and What to Do with What’s Left Behind…
Creative destruction often describes innovation and business cycles. How we buy and listen to music has undergone massive creative destruction over the last several decades: vinyl records lost to cassette players which lost to CDs which lost to digital files. As a result, record players are considered obsolete technology; however, what about this real wooden furniture? Is that obsolete? Should it be, just because it’s attached to a record player? What would a system look like that supported creating value out of what’s left behind? We need to focus on value creation, which leads to growing markets, jobs, reducing pressure on natural resources and more prosperity than burying things…
