#sustainability – Design Less; Design Right

So, we decided, lets break it all down. Make it simple. If a person had to live sustainable and make the shift,what are the things he could do? What are simple easy interventions on the user side we could think of? So we came up with the Golden Rules for Sustainable Living and we wrote down everything, from something as simple as planting trees, owning a pet to something as vague as Increasing Quality of life. The next step would be to branch it out, What are the next level actionable step in each point? (Written in dark blue) and that led to a series of interventions that would help make each point executable.

The idea was to come up with Mushroom Projects that are

Local
Context based Multipliable
Robust
Adaptable and flexible
And not necessarily Scalable.

One major Insight we got from the people we talked to was that

1.Going back to the roots, Going Local was one major point in the success of the idea.

2. The idea was to have small projects at different levels which would be part of one big project in the bigger picture.

3.To Advertise the idea of sustainability through Products and not just through words.

4. It was easier to maintain and implement an idea in a small and local level. Also going Local increased interaction among people,leading to better human connect and quality of life.