{"id":789,"date":"2010-02-28T01:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/?p=789"},"modified":"2010-02-28T01:52:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:52:54","slug":"week-3-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2010\/02\/week-3-day-17.html","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 3, DAY 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking more on the sustainability\/alternative energy idea and have come back to some books from the If Products Could Tell Their Stories<\/a> class. The one I have in my bag at the moment is the well known Cradle to Cradle<\/a>. <\/em>I’m also going back into Emotional Design <\/em>and Shopping Our Way to Safety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s pretty evident to me that all these things are intertwined – and they inherently address our (not sure who “our” is exactly, but certainly mine) manner of consumerism.<\/p>\n

I can say that I’ve spent a good portion of time when looking for and researching products I want to own – whether it’s the nuance of detail in design, the materials, and\/or the final price that drives my search. I wonder what percentage of online shoppers – or shoppers in general go to such lengths. I also wonder if perhaps a materials breakdown or some kind of sustainability rating will soon enough become a part of the shopping search engine process.<\/p>\n

If even novel at first, such a feature would really augment the consumer experience. Would it make consumers overly self-conscious about what they’re purchasing or even desiring? Could it make manufacturers more responsible? Could it work? Even then – how could it be smartly implemented in a way that would feel balanced to both consumers and manufacturers\/companies? I think it would be an interesting possibility that could work similarly to the way consumer ratings are created, though admittingly time-intensive.<\/p>\n

Definitely something to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking more on the sustainability\/alternative energy idea and have come back to some books from the If Products Could Tell Their Stories class. The one I have in my bag at the moment is the well known Cradle to Cradle. I’m also going back into Emotional Design and Shopping Our Way to Safety. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itp","category-sustainability","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}