I was brought up in the postwar generation so I'm good at not wasting things, and appalled by people who are wasteful.
"I just hate wasting things," he says.
By Dana Goodyear Ban, who has been celebrated for his socially conscious architecture, says, "I have no interest in 'Green,'Ecoco,' and 'Environmentally Friendly.' I just hate wasting things".
Another time, he wrote to me, "I do not know the meaning of 'Green Architect.' I have no interest in 'Green,'Ecoco,' and 'Environmentally Friendly.' I just hate wasting things".
1 BAL TASHCHIT, a rabbinic expression for not wasting things.
It is important to stress that minimizing the amount of things intended for disposal is only one of the options of waste minimization, which then reinforces the perception that 'the wasted thing' is already there to be disposed of.
"I hate wasted things," says Mussard, who spent afternoons as a child watching the Hermes leather workers, or the three women who repaired clients' gloves.
The extent to which we waste things becomes even more of an affront in times of austerity – and we were impressed by the number of great ideas for making use of otherwise wasted food, buildings or land.
"We're taught not to waste things, but in the context of 'don't waste money,'" Romer says.
"There's no need to tear things down and waste things," Winter said.
