Sustainable Shopping

This shopping mall in Sweden has a unique characteristic: everything in it is second hand.

Yes, this sounds like a huge thrift store, but that’s only part of the story.  Most of the items are upcycled by the employees, e.g., a lamp made of used leather jackets, shown in the video linked above.

The people who work there claim that their jobs require more creativity that any other profession on Earth, and it’s hard to argue against that.

How well this concept would do in the United States is uncertain.  I’m afraid that we take ourselves too seriously; at a certain level, this is an exercise in whimsy.

More importantly. our interest in sustainability lags behind most of the rest of the developed world.  Sad.