Comments on: GRETCHEN HOOKER http://inhabitat.com/gretchen-hooker/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Sat, 25 May 2013 19:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Terri Noel http://inhabitat.com/gretchen-hooker/comment-page-1/#comment-43094 Terri Noel Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:00:55 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/blog/2006/04/29/gretchen-hooker/#comment-43094 Gretchen! I Googled you and found this site, and I hope to get in touch with you somehow. (Gretchen and I went to college together) So if by some chance you read this or someone who knows Gretchen's email reads this, pass my email along to her. I would love to get in touch. (I know this has nothing to do with sustainability or anything, so I don't expect it to be put on your site, I'm just trying to reach Gretchen) -Terri Noel, Twin Cities, MN Gretchen!

I Googled you and found this site, and I hope to get in touch with you somehow. (Gretchen and I went to college together)

So if by some chance you read this or someone who knows Gretchen’s email reads this, pass my email along to her. I would love to get in touch.

(I know this has nothing to do with sustainability or anything, so I don’t expect it to be put on your site, I’m just trying to reach Gretchen)

-Terri Noel, Twin Cities, MN

]]> By: Inhabitat » INHABITAT NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS http://inhabitat.com/gretchen-hooker/comment-page-1/#comment-28724 Inhabitat » INHABITAT NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:00:45 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/blog/2006/04/29/gretchen-hooker/#comment-28724 [...] GRETCHEN HOOKER I’d like to see a LEED-type analysis emerge for evaluating the sustainability of consumer products. The word ’sustainable’ is bandied about so often that its meaning is becoming more and more inexact. For example, can a product truly be called sustainable because it is made out of bamboo, even if that bamboo was harvested 2000 miles away and used fossil fuels to ship it to the manufacturer? Sustainability is informed by a matrix of factors (material source, manufacture, labor, transportation, packaging, disposal/reuse). I think both consumers and designers need a way to clearly conceptualize how these factors interact. [...] [...] GRETCHEN HOOKER I’d like to see a LEED-type analysis emerge for evaluating the sustainability of consumer products. The word ’sustainable’ is bandied about so often that its meaning is becoming more and more inexact. For example, can a product truly be called sustainable because it is made out of bamboo, even if that bamboo was harvested 2000 miles away and used fossil fuels to ship it to the manufacturer? Sustainability is informed by a matrix of factors (material source, manufacture, labor, transportation, packaging, disposal/reuse). I think both consumers and designers need a way to clearly conceptualize how these factors interact. [...]

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