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I agree, Grandma's cast iron skillet probably wins over Corningware in terms of an ultimately sustainable product. I don't know much (read: anything) about bamboo bicycles, bit I'll certainly look into it.
I'm hoping that the bamboo bike thing pans out (pun intended), because both skillets and Corningware are so 20th-century. I'm hoping to use most- and least-sustainable products to help frame discussions with students, so stuff they can relate to is preferable. And a lot of students at Greenback have never seen a cast-iron skillet except in a Tom & Jerry cartoon. If, that is, they've ever seen Tom & Jerry.
But, anyway, let's get to the other side of the coin. What's the LEAST sustainable product out there? My first thought on that subject got quashed, presumably for fear of a libel suit. (I don't think we should be importing water from places where it's needed more than it is here, just so that we can consume conspicuously.) Any way, let's go with petroleum extracted, at great cost in energy and environmental pollution) from tar-sands.
Can anyone think of a consumer product that's less sustainable than that? (Certainly, I hope so.)
