Comments on: Things That Last: Does More Expensive Cost More?

By: Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:21 +0000

Kelly — a follow-up to this is that we were able to sell much of our “junk” to people who felt they could use it, using craigslist. We just set very low prices — this gets us halfway up the “reduce, reuse, recycle” ladder, to “reuse”.

But to the post — my point was that most of the things that ended up as junk were junk because they were poorly constructed and designed to break (no, really, “planned obsolescence” is very real). While it was my error to buy the stuff in the first place (should have “reduced”), it was amazing to see how much junk there is indeed.

As for the “Green Certified Site”, you can get them regardless of which color your site is ;-). This is a service provided by a company called CO2Stats, which buys carbon offsets for the aggregate energy they calculate is consumed by servers, pcs, browsers, and all sorts of the bits that make the web possible. Click the link — it’s pretty impressive, actually.

Tom

By: Kelly Anne - Basement Finishing

Kelly Anne - Basement Finishing — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:09:22 +0000

Tom, as much as i love that quote, i have to disagree!!! You see, junk, isnt always junk :D it was once amazing and incredible! well.. somethings were.

I saw “Green certified Site”, does it have to be Green to be certified… hehe :P

~kelly

By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:15:09 +0000

Tom,

I ran across this thought for the day…it seems to coincide with this post of yours.

“Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desire.” Roger von Oech