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‘‘Six Million Britons Crying Over Lack of Organic Milk,’’ August 30, 2002, available at
http://www.omsco.co.uk/frameset.cfm.
45. ‘‘Dabbawallas—Epitome of Management Skills,’’ Times of India, January 18,
2004, available at http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/430392.cms.
46. The examples presented here have been extracted from François Jégou and Ezio
Manzini, Sustainable Everyday: A Catalogue of Promising Solutions (Milan: Edizione
Ambiente, 2004), available at http://www.edizioniambiente.it.
47. See the Slow Cities website at http://www.matogmer.no/slow_cities__citta_slow
.htm.
48. Ezio Manzini, ‘‘Space and Pace of Flows’’ (presentation at Doors of Perception 7:
Flow, Amsterdam, November 14–16, 2000, available on the Doors of Perception website
at http://flow.doorsofperception.com/content/manzini_trans.html).
49. Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer
(New York: Basic Books, 1998).
50. Lee Gomes, ‘‘Can Business-to-Business Survive? Hunt Family Finds Fax and Telephone
Beat Out Internet,’’ Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001, pp. 23–24.
51. For an excellent account of the nemawashi factor, see Kayoko Ota, ‘‘Tokyo,’’
in Workspheres: Design and Contemporary Work Styles, ed. Paola Antonelli (New York:
Museum of Modern Art, 2001). The website for the Workspheres exhibition is at
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/workspheres/.
52. Esther Dyson, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age (New York: Bantam
Dell, 1997).
53. Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars: The Primacy Conflict in Human History (New York:
Henry Holt, 1987).
54. Ivan Illich, ‘‘Speed and the Quick’’ (presentation at Doors of Perception 4: Speed,
Amsterdam, November 7–8, 1996, available on the Doors of Perception website at
http://www.doorsofperception.com/speed).
55. For further information about Project F, see the Whirlpool website (http://
www.project-f.whirlpool.co.uk/).
56. As the Project F handbook explains, ‘‘Purification of ‘grey’ water is accomplished
using phitodepuration. Loads of various sizes can be accommodated an a series of
pods. Washing can take place as the need arises because an individual pod can be
removed, loaded, and replaced at any time. The cycle begins in a holding tank reserved
for fresh and refreshed water. The water moves to the wash pods, where it is
used to clean and rinse laundry. From there, it passes to a plant-filled container for
purification. Once refreshed, the water returns to the holding tank for storage until