Kerstin Strom » eco conscience

WalMart pushes suppliers

Posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

“We heard that in the future, to become a Wal-Mart supplier, you have to be an environmentally friendly company… So we switched some of our products and the way we produced them.”
-Benny Fung, the head [...]

Career Direction Assignment

Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Career Direction History: Upon reflecting where I envisioned my career to be going there seems to have been different focuses at different points in my life for all of them. When I was a child [...]

Garbage Bag Dilema – BioBag

Posted on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

This evening I somewhat did what I could regarding influencing another to take a little green step. My fiancé is a very practical and rather frugal individual. I was able to talk him into purchasing [...]

why – pt 2

Posted on Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I have to say that my wake up call came in the form of a presentation I saw several years ago about the toxic environment in Southeastern China caused by e-waste and the ‘disposal’ US [...]

Our Energy Use

Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/asia/11coal.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1242047104-eI3hdL5OCY8RHTstvhW8hg
It’s amazing to read how one country, notorious for it’s disregard for environmental and health issues, is becoming a front runner in the advancement of cleaner living. I realize that considering the population and economic [...]

The Question of Litter Patrol

Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009

When reading Wendy’s article ‘Paper or Plastic? NEITHER!!!!!’ I was reminded of a crisis of conscience I had a few weeks ago after beginning this class. Standing in the middle of my boyfriend’s neighborhood with [...]

Why?

Posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009

So what exactly is Sustainable Design? How is it different than what that dirty hippie in the park keeps yelling about? How is this different than designing stuff out of recycled materials, like shoes made [...]