Comments on: The Art of Sustainability http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/23/the-art-of-sustainability/ Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Gast http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/23/the-art-of-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-10572 Scott Gast Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:01:51 +0000 http://www.cchange.net/?p=1989#comment-10572 This is great. I think you highlight an absolutely key point- that "commodity thinking" is what's presently being used confront individual sustainability issues that are really symptoms of a larger, root cause. Art, at its best, is culture-changing and culture-creating. And culture happens to work at the root level of these issues, and in my opinion is the real instrument of the kind of change sustainability demands of us. All that can sound a bit fluffy- and it can be- but the examples you cite are real attempts at tugging at the edges of current culture in hopes of inventing a new one. This is great. I think you highlight an absolutely key point- that “commodity thinking” is what’s presently being used confront individual sustainability issues that are really symptoms of a larger, root cause. Art, at its best, is culture-changing and culture-creating. And culture happens to work at the root level of these issues, and in my opinion is the real instrument of the kind of change sustainability demands of us.

All that can sound a bit fluffy- and it can be- but the examples you cite are real attempts at tugging at the edges of current culture in hopes of inventing a new one.

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