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Whenever making a new purchase, try to picture where the item will end up after you discard it. Can it be composted, reused, or responsibly recycled? Or would it probably end up in a landfill or body of water? Visualizing the full lifecycle of an item can help sway your decisions to be as sustainable as possible.
Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Richa Syal
Pain rolled off him like rain from a slate roof.
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Central heating illustrates the device paradigm by the manner in which it secures the technological availability of warmth. It conceals the machinery, the means we might say, while perfecting what Borgmann calls the commodity, the end. Commodity is Borgmann’s word for “what a device is there for,” it is the end that the means are intended to secure. The device paradigm, remember, is a pattern that Borgmann sees unfolding across the modern technological spectrum.
Why a Life Made Easier by Technology May Not Necessarily Be Happier
thefrailestthing.com
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