A little comment I wrote on the NESTA blogs about the constant stream of mixed and confusing messages we are bombarded with these days:

Two stories which resonated with me this morning...

1) A colleague forwarded this nugget from popb*tch: An avatar in Second Life has a larger carbon footprint than the average Brazilian

2) Slashdot commented on the world's biggest digital dump, where Chinese locals harvest the gold, copper and other valuable parts within discarded PCs from the West.

How should I feel about these things? It's a confusing state, as both coins have 2 sides...

Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >> 

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