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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of it depends some culture changes.  For instance, why is it cultural normal for people to wear long pants to work in the summer (and even jackets!) and then a/c buildings to November temperatures?  Corporate energy use is a huge part of the total.
How can we change the current American culture of bigger, newer, more (a culture we are successfully exporting to the whole world).  100 years ago Americans were mostly frugal and thrift.  They bought stuff that lasted and then refinished or reworked it.  Now if you look at the boards about fashion or home decor or real estate, there is such scorn for anything that looks “dated” and the attitude seems to be “if you don’t love it, trash it and get what you love!  Life is too short!”  Must we all really rip out our kitchens and redo them every 10-20 years?  And replace all our curtains and furniture too?  Our grandparents would live with the same curtains and furniture for basically their whole lives!  They used practical things like armchair arm doilies so that the arms wouldn’t wear down as quickly — can you imagine the scorn of you did that now?  We need to get back to that flinty mindset that Americans had until sometime after WWII….

PS I have an enormous bag of ripped clothing that I have been keeping until I figure out how to upcycle….[/quote]

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