Tuesday, August 24, 2010

From the Guardian (UK): Is this bike maker greener? Well,....

Here's the link. Be sure to read the comments. They're not entirely what you'd expect....

If you buy a new, expensive and prestigious replica (if we're honest) of an old, prestigeless item, even if the new item is made in your neighborhood and its construction reflects a concern for environmental issues, is it green? Or is finding the old, discarded no-flash product far greener?

Note: New personal sentence length record established this morning immediately above.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

From reading the bit it appears they started out fixing up the "barn-finds" as the collectors like to call 'em but now are making "new" ones for those who don't have, or don't want to find an old bike to refurbish. Hard to argue against buying this vs a plastic bike made in a place where the prevailing wages are barely enough to live on.