Moreover (for what it’s worth), I wonder if there’s a need to challenge the notion of progress. I’ve often felt uncomfortable at the unveiling of new technologies and the hyped-up claims that usually accompany these new innovations. There’s a sense that progress is good, wholly desirable, and that if you point out a weakness you’ve a wish for us all to go back to living in caves and using flints or something. Yet I sense a devouring spirit in much of what is deemed to be ‘progress’. Creating products which “…can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new – continually circulating as pure and viable materials…” is a step in the right direction but there’s still the issue of energy usage too.

This all looks really interesting – count me in and there may be others in the garden too. And on top of what you already suggest I would want to toss in that in the way that marx critiques capital we need radical tools (such as eco-phenomenology and my old favourite Herr Heidegger ) that critique our relation to nature and that go radically deeper than environmentalism and sustainability – living shoots rising from the burnt alchemy maybe!