Hobbies

This is kind of an old article, but I just remembered it, and I think it pertains in an interesting way to sustainability. 

It discusses the efforts of instrument builders (largely guitar makers) effectively getting the most out of the resources needed to get the desired tone and playability out of their products and protesting the use of these resources on projects that prove wasteful of the full potential of the resource. Frequently it seems that the arts have more leniency when comes to sustainability because after all it is "art". But the fact is that resources are still being used up faster than they are replenishing; and instruments wear out. So I think it is a positive thing that companies are looking into this sort of thing. Reality is (in my opinion) that we're gonna keep making art and music, but we don't have to do it in a wasteful way.