Yes, global warming has been high jacked by politicians and commercialized by big business. This is surprisingly not a total disaster because as a society we have at least moved beyond just ignoring the environment all together. I am far more worried about the way sustainable design and development have been sort of cannibalized by the global warming debate. In the last two years these have been slowly sandwiched together by the mainstream media as one concept under the global warming brand.

The problem is that even as an ardent promoter of sustainable design, I now find myself inconveniently confused by the global warming debate. Read the rest of this entry »