week 5

While Monday's lecture was pretty much a review for me (I took Color Theory last quarter), I really liked the environment lecture on Wednesday. As I mentioned in my response to the weekend's reading, I was raised in a family of environmentalists, so environmental issues have always been deeply important to me. Of the videos we watched, I found the one about biomimicry the most interesting. Benyus made some very good points about how nature solves problems compared to how people do. I also liked William McDonough's lecture. He seems more level-headed and realistic than a lot of environmentalists who just expect people to completely change their lives. It seems like he understands not only what the problems are and how to solve them, but also why it is that some solutions wouldn't work.