It is refreshing to contemplate this notion that renewability makes something valuable - and renewability comes from inefficiency or impermanence. However, cultural roots are needed... the underlying culture-market driven choice applied to appliances in the US...market system drives option to buy another one. Success of Walmart, etc. . In contrast I think of old rural America, at least in my reading about it...communities formed by helping one another renew basic needs: barn raisings, fence breaks, bad crop years, etc. Roots of a culture (tending of natural growth) is fundamental for renewability to flourish. Village in India had these cultural roots. I love the idea of nurturing the "culture" in a family in such a way that family members choose to help to" renew" when things break down...job is lost, child has special needs, house lost in natural disaster, etc. Families need constant renewal. We can start there. How do we build social places (families, relationships, organizations) that inspire renewal?
On Mar 24, 2023 Sally Mahe wrote :