Us & Our Planet: This is How We Live
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Us & Our Planet: This is How We Live
“Once an afterthought, sustainability has become a soft hum that underpins the soundtrack of our daily lives. The term is imperfect, of course. It attempts, somewhat clumsily, to refer to a whole raft of ideas, from consciousness, coexistence and responsibility to honesty, respect and action. Sustainability implies an Arcadian state in which all of our systems are circular, our behaviours carefully considered and our planet unspoiled. And yet a future without a higher measure of it than we currently know is almost too catastrophic to comprehend: a world of drowned cities, burned forests and climate refugees. Sustainability is imperfect, but it is what we have. And so, we work with it.”
Achieving a more sustainable life at home is one of the most urgent social and environmental challenges we face today as a society. Together with IKEA, we visit homes, workplaces and shared spaces from Mexico to Moscow, from Bali to Beirut, to find ways we can improve our way of living.
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Binding: soft
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 19.7 x 26.3 cm
Year of publication: 2022
Language: English
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Since the 1950s, IKEA sellers have been visiting homes around the world to learn more about how we live. Inspired by this approach, Inter IKEA Systems and Phaidon have partnered to explore the greatest challenge of our generation - sustainable living - through the lives of activists, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs and many others.
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