Minimalism is the other one I'm looking at, for past decade or so. Not as far along as I'd like yet in terms of stuff, but consumption is way down. Clothes, equipment, etc. Making things work for longer, DIY repairs, primarily buying used goods.
But the system is totally geared against all this. If someone or a group could reverse even parts of consumer culture it'd be a potentially huge win for the planet. And for people's sanity.
I agree that long-living products would be better for resource efficiency.
Which part of consumer culture would you like to change if you had a magic wand? e.g. which action or believe would you like to change?
My shot is that people would prefer subscriptions of long-living products because companies need some kind of cashflow but also an incentive for optimising efficiency.
Very interesting, thank you! I also agree that awareness is a massive one!
When I hear sticker campaign I immediately think of all the stickers that are put somewhere where they are maybe tolerated but most likely not asked for. Often being not allowed.
Not doing any implicit accusations but I am wondering if you found a way that was legal? Or if you have ideas for "accepted" ways to raise awareness?
I personally think that avoiding things is very relevant and that positive actions (as long as they are not in the flavor of "I remove any sort of waste") can do more harm than good in the long run, since the environment is an utterly complex system.
That makes sense. I am just scared if it will be enough if some people only avoid stuff and thus I wonder if there is more we can do. Something that has no natural limit. Something where we can always do a little more. In the end, there is just so much you can avoid.
I think that we can come up with active actions that will not interfere with the environment or where we are very certain that there won't be (net) negative effects.
An example might be convincing your loved ones to also avoid stuff. This is an action that does not manipulate the environment but it's something where we can do more of.
Other actions might be:
- donating money to organisations that have shown to be efficient at convincing others to avoid more. Not sure if something like this exists
- signing a petition for a carbon tax. So far, I have never seen that as well in Germany
- reading books on the topic to be more knowledgable when discussions arise
- discuss climate change with people in your life
We started pyforest a couple of months ago and received a lot of constructive criticism, mainly focusing on making the auto-imports explicit to the user and thus following the ZoP "explicit is better than implicit". We took that criticism and improved pyforest in this regard.
With the new release, pyforest will automatically write the import statement to the top of your Jupyter Notebook once you use a package.
Set difference and/or intersection of dir(pd.DataFrame) and dir(dask.DataFrame) with inspect.getargspec and inspect.doc would be a useful document for either or both projects.
pyfilemods generates a ReStructuredText document with introspected API comparisons. "Identify and compare Python file functions/methods and attributes from os, os.path, shutil, pathlib, and path.py" https://github.com/westurner/pyfilemods
Thank you very much for that honest feedback. It means a lot to me. Honestly, I will have to reflect on what you said, but I would like to get back to you on this later.
I am happy you like it :)
About (1) - (3): I will have a look at those features, but thanks a lot for the feedback.
About (4): we currently support pandas, but be basically want to offer many more backends in the future, therefore also making bamboolib interesting for companies that use clusters a lot.
- basically turned vegetarian (like 99,99%) in 2014
- joined avaaz.org to sign petitions. 30 mins per month invest
- I'm a minimalist and avoid buying new stuff, avoid buying furniture altogether
- Use the bike to get to work
- did a sticker campaign in 2014 to raise awareness about our lives and the planet (I firmly believe that awareness is a key factor to sustainability)