Sustainability vs. Consumption

A few month ago, I went to camera shop in city to ask fixing my fairy new digital camera because it was broken just by faling down. It costs 80 dollers to ask them and couldnt fix. I mean they can but, it cost extra 200 dollers to fix it.     stupid........It jut costs about $100~ to buy new one.

I remember that Darko talked about Cowboy economy in lecture today. It describes the linear system from production to consumption, which are concerned to the issue that I mentioned above.

In fact, computer products are especially fast in developing, and people often buy new one, but actual differences between new and old one often one tiny piece of entire computer. But computer compan make new type of computer with only little different shape so that people cannot change only the pieces by themselves. One of the issue Sustainability concerning to recycling are shown here.  It means that environmental issue (that are in long term process and rythms) are drawn by Economics and Poliotics ( that are in shor term cycle) .

This cowboy economy( in which the process are often from developing to developed country as production moves to consumption) has been endangered the various sustainable way of living that people from developing countries that people established adopting thier own culture and environment.

Here, I will introduce some of the old ways of living that can be implemented in the contemporary society. I may further investigate the detail one or a few of them later as my research topic.

1. Agricultural landuse in Be, northern Cameroon.-------Crop culture related to the river levels, soils, rainfall and the distance of crop from the sare(compound)

From the left side this section, plot of manioc was situated close to the sare fenced against gots, and a short distance away sweet potatoes were growing in ridged fields, the crop alternated with groundnuts, sorghum or beans. Further afield on the hill-slopes rice was growing in hollows among the sorghum fields, and below the sare, neare to the river, red millet was planted. Rice was grown at the flood limit and quick- growing maize corn, or sorghum seedlings transplanted from the upper nursery beds were sown as the waters of the Mayo-Kebbi fell. Flooded in the summer and manually irrigated in the winter, the alluvial banks of the river were used for growing variety of vegetables-aubergines, calabashes, marrows and pumpkins.

2. Moulded in Clay

Mud is often principal material for structure. Soils are decomposed rocks, occuring over much of the world's land surface, and are used for building in a variety of conditions. Some soils are alkaline and some clay cannot be turned on a potter's wheel. It is this variability that makes it possible for multi storeyed building constructed by earth in some place such as Yemen.

Podzoic soils that covers much of the N.europe, Russia, and Canada are highly acid and not suitable for buidling but soils formed under deciduous forest and grassland soils of the pariries and steppes of Na are suitable. In thinkly watered area, desertic soils of broken rock and sand have resulted in some of the most notable uses of earth for construction, as have the laterites and red soils of India, Africa, and south America. Laterites are low in fertility- paradozicall, for they occur beneath tropical rain forest- and rapidly leach out when the tree cover is felled. They retain many of the characteristics of rock, becoming hard and encrusted when exposed to air, which makes them good for building, but poor for agriculture, except when carefully nurtured.

I need to stop with only these two examples... not sure how its gonna be applied for contemporary landscape issue yet, but there are a lot depending on the interpretations....

Anyway, it is obvious that we need to have the way those recycling idea of system (Circulation economy ) replaces to the current cowboy economy system in Landscape architecture.