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10 March 2003 (Monday)

what are we hungry for?

Earlier tonight I spent a few hours in the home of a new friend. He is a musician and his wife is an artist; apart from the main house there are two buildings on their plot of land, a greenhouse and a studio. Instead of a lawn, they're tending a field of wildflowers. Sometimes, he said, the grass grows as high as your nose. Sometimes it's a hard life. The money comes and it goes and sometimes it's gone a long while. When I arrived the smell of dinner was still in the house, faintly, drifting ghosts too pale for me to guess what food might have been on the table.

McDonough and Braungart's Cradle to Cradle has been tucked under my arm all day, and even when I'm not reading it murmurs in my thoughts. Efficiency...or effectiveness? How do you measure the success of a human system? What problems are we solving? What are we hungry for?

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