TreeHugger
founder Graham Hill describes his lifestyle in the New York Times,
Here youcan read the complete interview. I did not consider the case to
summarize it, it is very good and well worth to read it all!
"I
sleep better knowing I’m not using more resources than I need. I
have less — and enjoy more."
He draws
the principles of degrowth theory. The
decrease is a current of political thought, economic and social
environment to the controlled reduction, selective and voluntary
economic production and consumption, with the aim of establishing
relations of ecological balance between man and nature, as well as
fairness among human beings themselves.
Degrowth
is something that we need to think:
"Our
fondness for stuff affects almost every aspect of our lives. Housing
size, for example, has ballooned in the last 60 years. The average
size of a new American home in 1950 was 983 square feet; by 2011, the
average new home was 2,480 square feet. And those figures don’t
provide a full picture. In 1950, an average of 3.37 people lived in
each American home; in 2011, that number had shrunk to 2.6 people.
This means that we take up more than three times the amount of space
per capita than we did 60 years ago.
Apparently
our supersize homes don’t provide space enough for all our
possessions, as is evidenced by our country’s $22 billion personal
storage industry."
In this
video you can see where and how Graham Hill lives:
More info
website Graham Hill
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Photo
credit © New York Times
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