Comments on: ECO-TECTURE: New York Times Focuses on Green Architecture

By: Rodrigo Barba

Rodrigo Barba — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:19:57 +0000

I live in Joinville a city near (120km) from Curitiba. The city is very well planned and there is a lot of parks and open areas. And not only the green but the cultural side of the city is great, lot’s of theaters and museums like the Museu Oscar Niemeyer (http://www.museuoscarniemeyer.org.br/).
I have seen this kind of things too in Buenos Aires but i don’t know how green is the city there. In Curitiba like any other big city in Brasil they have too problems with poverty and violence.

By: nativepangean

nativepangean — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:31:39 +0000

its not the fact that our children will have a rough ride we should worry about, they will adapt either way, but the fact that the world they’ll be immersed in will be due cause of our actions currently. Currently our trends must reflect our ideas AND efforts. As a nation of marketable fluff we need to realize this “fad” of enviromental realization is at a nearly crucial point in which it can either; be marginalized due to its lack of ease and and immediate financial benefiet, or fully endeavored in every aspect to escape the slightest possibility of becoming superficial. Rather ultimately respected, as human-kind’s consistent struggle to achieve perfection in exisitence.

By: royalestel

royalestel — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:55:08 +0000

Have to agree with Paul about surface trends. I mean, Al Gore’s an expert on environmental ecology like I’m an expert on American Idol. Interviewing him clearly illustrates the “green” Times issue is meant to sell magazines. They’re just profiting from people’s fears for the future, like Paul here.

But I’m not afraid for the future, I just prepare my family. My wife and I were wondering why, if so many people think the ocean level will rapidly rise, very few people are prepared for even the shortest term natural disaster. A 72 hour kit will go a long way towards protecting one’s family in an emergency of disastrous importance. If you are prepared, you will not fear.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:44:00 +0000

I mean this more as a general comment than anything specific to NY Times mag, but one thing that concerns me is America’s capacity to take practically any content and turn it into a superficial trend. Take, for example, the glut of spirituality and religion books in recent years by people seeing there’s a market there to be cashed in on. Of course some of it is sincere and well done – Tolle, for example – but a lot isn’t.

When it comes to “going green” if goverment leadership around the globe doesn’t put more of substance than fluff into it, our children’s children are going to have one rough ride…