DSC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Office Chair, Production Quota, The Natural Step
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Joe schwarz - design & research herman miller; worked with george. Witnessed rise in popularity of scandinavian modern furniture. Boeing 707 which is the first commercially successful passenger jet, for a significant development in popular taste. Designing, making, & using localized in great britain. Society depletes earth"s bounty at a rate that is faster than resources can be replenished. This is the case for oil, coal, and many metals. Rate or production of everyday things by society is greater than the rate that natural processes of the earth can reclaim. Society is also using the earth"s resources at a rate is greater than the natural rate for replenishment. Not only are we are overharvesting, overfishing, and overmining, but we are also eliminating the potential for sustainability by overbuilding and overpaving. Eliminate our contribution to systematic resources increases in concentrations of substances from earth"s crust.
