{"id":290,"date":"2004-11-20T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2004\/11\/20\/290\/"},"modified":"2004-11-20T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T15:36:00","slug":"290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/290\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
Sustainable Style<\/strong><\/p>\n Receive a note last night from Susan Bartlett, President and Co-Founder of Pangaya, “an online retailer In the same vein, Newsweek<\/em> has an article<\/a> on the new generation of hybrid vehicles — not quite as fuel efficient (though certainly much better than the average gas-guzzler), but much stronger in terms of horsepower and “style.” Are these compromises inevitable and necessary, or a sacrifice of principle?<\/p>\n
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launched in August 2004 with the goal of bringing
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stylish, environmentally-friendly products to the
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mainstream customer.” They’ve got some beautiful things for sale, but it also got me thinking about this notion of “sustainable style.” As I told Susan in my reply, I find the concept fairly radical: take the tastes of the mainstream consumer and “green” them. This creates the kind of “win-win” situation we read so much about in the literature of sustainability. At the same time, I would imagine that others find this idea a compromise with a consumer mentality that can hardly be described as sustainable. I think we need to look at small steps that move us consistantly forward, but I do know plenty of folks that I agree with on principle that see any compromise as negative. What do you think?<\/p>\n