Just Plain SEXY!

I love sustainability. It's so very sexy.

If a man utters the word 'sustainability' in a favourable light, then at least in my mind, sexiness follows.

Now hang on. Put the brakes on. I simply mean that all sins are forgiven (big noses, shortness, baldness even bad breath) and there is peace and hope because that's what the word means to me. Sustainability means hope... and sexiness.

When a man uses his creativity to find a way for us to live without hurting the earth or each other, well, c'mon, you've gotta admit, that's very attractive...in a good and wholesome way.

When a woman finds solutions to our over use of the earth's resources, from my perspective, that's pure and saintly but I'm sure she could be sexy too, depending on your orientation. Hell, I think I'd find her sexy...in a virtuous way, of course.

Oh stop pulling that face! I'm not being licentious. I just think that, (thinking now), well sex is good and natural and attraction is sustainable. (As long as we don't breed like rabbits.)

Most of us (unless we're rampant teenagers) are generally attracted to healthy, positive and kind people....people who believe in sustainability...if you catch me drift.

Here's a picture of a man who believes in sustainability. He has a sexy, you wouldn't wanna mess with me kinda look...but doesn't the fact that he raises grass feed sustainable cattle on his sustainable farm add to his allure? It sure works for me.
Will Witherspoon

Witherspoon's the NFL's best-fed player, and he has himself to thank for that. Originally purchased as a hobby farm and a place to relax, the pro linebacker's Missouri getaway quickly turned into Shire Gate Farm, a grass-fed, Animal Welfare Approved farm that includes hundreds of heritage breed White Park cattle, chickens, and sheep.

Farm animals raised on pasture drastically improve soil health, naturally allowing the earth to sequester and store more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

And then there's Salma Hayek....

Salma Hayek Known more for her efforts to raise awareness for domestic violence, the sexy Latina is also an avid supporter of environmental causes. In fact, she traveled to the Arctic with other celebrities and politicians on a trip organized by the nonprofit Global Green to raise awareness about the plight of indigenous people who are suffering some of the most severe effects of climate change.

And here's William McDonough who invented the term Cradle to Cradle. He's not a looker but who cares? He invented Cradle to Cradle. That's enough for me. ( But he does have nice sustainable blue eyes.)

William McDonough is an advisor, designer, thought leader, and author. His vision for a future of abundance for all is helping companies and communities think differently. Together they are changing the world.

William McDonough is a globally recognized leader in sustainable development. Trained as an architect, McDonough’s interests and influence range widely, and he works at scales from the global to the molecular.

Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet,” noting:

“His utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world.”

In 1996, McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 2003 he earned the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his work with Shaw Industries. In 2004, he received the National Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of environmental design. McDonough is the architect of many of the recognized flagships of sustainable design, including the Ford Rouge truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan; the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College; and NASA’s “space station on Earth,” Sustainability Base, one of the most innovative facilities in the federal portfolio.

McDonough has written and lectured extensively on design as the first signal of human intention. He was commissioned in 1991 to write The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability as guidelines for the City of Hannover’s EXPO 2000, still recognized two decades after publication as a touchstone of sustainable design. In 2002, McDonough and the German chemist Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press), which is widely acknowledged as a seminal text of the sustainability movement. Their new book, The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability–Designing for Abundance (North Point Press, 2013) came out this spring.

McDonough advises commercial and governmental leaders worldwide through McDonough Advisors. He is also active with William McDonough + Partners, his architecture practice with offices in Charlottesville, Virginia, and San Francisco, California, as well as McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, the Cradle to Cradle consulting firm co-founded with Braungart. He has co-founded, with Braungart, not-for-profit organizations to allow public accessibility to Cradle to Cradle thinking. These include GreenBlue (2000), to convene industry groups around Cradle to Cradle issues, and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (2009), founded at the invitation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to create a global standard for the development of safe and healthy products. McDonough also co-founded Make It Right (2006) with Brad Pitt to bring affordable Cradle to Cradle-inspired homes to the New Orleans Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Now that's what I call SEXY with a capital S!

And here are two of my favourite sexy people, the clever NSW Greens MP, Cate Faehramm and Bob Brown. Lovely, sexy sustainable Green Party people.

And here are two more.

Bob again. He does rather feature and he's standing next to the lovely Greens Senator, Larissa Waters.

Some links to more sexy sustainability. Have fun!

http://www.capepatersonecovillage.com.au/

http://www.aila.org.au/sustainablecanberra/009-christie/

http://tedxsydney.com/site/item.cfm?item=3223B67DC290F6C97A947C23B14D3279

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html

http://tedxsydney.com/site/eventGIL.cfm