{"id":6503,"date":"2017-01-27T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pleasantlearning.wordpress.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2017-01-27T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:21:30","slug":"leyla-acaroglu-rethinking-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/2017\/01\/27\/leyla-acaroglu-rethinking-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Leyla Acaroglu: rethinking sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/leyla_acaroglu_paper_beats_plastic_how_to_rethink_environmental_folklore\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Talk<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;Everything at some point comes from nature.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We have to learn to do more with less.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Consumption is the biggest problem. Design is the best solution.&#8221;<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\n<em>&#8221; Methane (landfill) is 25 X more potent than CO2 (composting).&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Half of the world&#8217;s produced food is wasted.&#8221; (United Nations)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The excess filling of kettles in the UK wastes enough energy to keep the lights on all night across the country.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;There are currently 7 billion people in the world and 6 billion mobile phones subscriptions. In the US only 11% of mobile phones are recycled. The average useful life of a mobile phone is 15-18 months.&#8221; Where are all these old phones going? (Design for disassembly) <\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Paper or plastic?&#8221; Surprisingly plastic!<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ff6600\">Thanks Joelle for supplying this great link!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Talk &#8220;Everything at some point comes from nature.&#8221; &#8220;We have to learn to do more with less.&#8221; &#8220;Consumption is the biggest problem. Design is the best solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-244-design-studio-ii","category-320-professional-development-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}