No-vehicle Day today
Posted by D'ave under Uncategorized on October 20 2005 at 8:06 AM
I’m sorry, I’m all for the environment and stuff like that, but asking me to ride a bicycle to wherever I need to go instead of using my car is just crazy talk!
It happened in Beijing last month, and apparently most of them hopped on their bikes and went about their business.
Joburgers? Not a chance.
October 20th, 2005 at 9:29 am
C’mon, where’s the spirit?
A Segway doesn’t classify as a vehicle, does it?
October 20th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Having seen two taxis make change for a R20 while speeding down Jan Smuts, been in a taxi with a door that had to be held closed by the unlucky person to sit there, been in few taxis that chase red robots to a millisecond before collision… and the usual yellow line driving, pavemnent driving and severe traffic cutting… I think I’ll use my car thank you!
(…even though I do think this initiative is great… provided you use buses, cabs and other non taxi types)
October 21st, 2005 at 11:17 am
If only we had a similar underground system as in the UK… modern, convenient and most important – reliable.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:26 pm
and easy to bomb……
October 21st, 2005 at 1:27 pm
off topic : very classic.
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October 21st, 2005 at 4:05 pm
If I used a taxi to get from Illvo to Houghton, I’d have to go into town first, then back up again.
Keep dreaming.
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:49 pm
bah, i think its a load of bull!!!
October 26th, 2005 at 3:00 am
FIRE, FIRE!!
In his foreword to the graphic designer’s Greenbook by Anne Chick, Michael Wolff says:
“If, while watching TV in your own bedroom or reading the paper in the kitchen, you saw a news report about your own house being on fire, you probably wouldn’t make a dash for safety. You’d assume that there had been some mistake, and you’d try to figure out how it had happened. A real fire makes you jump. Information about fire doesn’t.
“Reading about the environment is the same. Our assault on the planet that sustains us – the depletion of its resources, the killing of the seas, the poisoning of much of the world – has been a gradual process, much too gradual to alarm us. Real disasters, we seem to feel, aren’t gradual.
“There is nothing more important for the future of our pecies than regaining our planet as a viable and sustainable environment. Yet I don’t act as if that were so, and I don’t always design as if it were so. I don’t think that many of my colleagues do, either.
“Environmentally sound criteria must dominate the commercial criteria we use in our design work, or there won’t be any point in expecting our children to enjoy living on this earth.
“Anne Chick’s simple, practical, thorough and reasonable book provides the information and inspiration for anyone who feels, as I do, that he or she is part of the problem. Don’t treat it simply as information. Allow it to inspire your work and redirect your agenda as a designer. We’re on fire. We’ve got to put it out fast.”
(Michael Wolf is Worldwide Creative Director of Addison Worldwide Limited). Order the book or check it out from your local library.
In the meantime, understand the development of products that you design for. The manufacture of any product involves at least six separate stages, and each of them has the potential to cause ecological harm. These stages might not always be of direct concern to graphic and packaging designers, but they are vital to understanding the effects of a designer’s decisions.
A recent conference held at Gallagher “Cimate Action Now!” saw the signing of an understanding between the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and Patric Motsepe, President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) to voluntarily reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (something that all industries will have to consider).
Educate yourself about environmental issues or appoint someone in your studio to be responsible for collecting and disseminating pertinent information. It all starts with awareness – and then use your creative imagination to find alternative and better solutions!
November 9th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
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