25th July 2024
Life long
If our lives are to be more sustainable, we need to rely on many of the things we use having a long life – that they be robust and reliable. We need white goods such as washing machines and cookers to last not just 5 years but ten, twenty or thirty years. When we went to Zimbabwe in 1992, we took with us the fridge that my parents bought when I was five years old – making the fridge about 25 years old. When we buy electronic goods such as phones and tablets, we want them to have lives of at least ten years – together with all the upgrades to the operating system. When we buy cycles, we want them to have lives of 30 – 40 years (and the hope that they won’t be stolen).
As well as wanting a long life for domestic items, we also need the same for commercial items be that equipment in schools and hospitals, railway carriages and buses, lampposts and paving stones etc.
The Green Tau 