After watching this I don’t think I will ever buy a miracle-gro product again. It is amazing, someone innovates, reduces the waste stream and the big corporate interests come out with the legal guns blazing. Shame on you Scotts Miracle-Gro, shame on you. Someone out innovates you that is how capitalism works. Schumpeter called it Creative Destruction and it is fundamental to the innovative processes of capitalism.
For all things are baptized at the well of eternity, and beyond good and evil. But good and evil themselves are but shadows inbetween and damp afflictions and wandering clouds.
There is a movement out there called new urbanism that strives to re-imagine our living communities in more effective and vital ways, trying to undo the damage of 60 years of urban sprawl and car culture. The movement really started to gain steam in the 1980s long before “peak oil” was a daily headline. One the original visionaries of this movement is architect Andres Duany. The following are some clips from late 80s where he talks to a group of San Antonio citizens. Watch as he deftly dismantles the delusion of suburban sprawl with great humor and insightful technical precision.
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