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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780865475878 
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"An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!" Scott Smith, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask.In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
Book News Annotation:
Architect McDonough and chemist Braungart use this little book with
its curved corners and strangely smooth paper to embody and represent
one of two kinds of engineering which they advocate: development of
materials that can be perpetually reused in technology (the authors
claim the material can be continually remade into other books and
recycled). The other heralded mode of engineering promises the
elimination of anthropogenic waste which is not biodegradable into
food. In sum, the two maker-thinkers promote the manufacture of
objects that usefully die by means of processes and objects that
usefully never die. One of the more memorable phrases, "less bad is
no good," relates to their envisioned industrial re-revolution, one
in which reduction, reuse, and recycling pale in comparison to
upcycling, where products nourish or help nourish the planet. No
index and few bibliographic notes.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author
William McDonough is an architect and the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, based in Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1994 to 1999 he served as dean of the school of architecture at the University of Virginia. In 1999 Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet," stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world." In 1996, he received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the highest environmental honor given by United States.Michael Braungart is a chemist and the founder of the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to starting EPEA, he was the director of the chemistry section for Greenpeace. Since 1984 he has been lecturing at universities, businesses, and institutions around the world on critical new concepts for ecological chemistry and materials flow management. Dr. Braungart is the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and fellowships from the Heinz Endowment, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and other organizations. In 1995 the authors created McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a product and systems development firm assisting client companies in implementing their unique sustaining design protocol. Their clients include Ford Motor Company, Nike, Herman Miller, BASF, DesignTex, Pendleton, Volvo, and the city of Chicago. The company's Web site can be found at www.mbdc.com.
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Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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rwilson, March 16, 2008 (view all comments by rwilson)
Open the package and pull out a book that feels like no other: smooth, heavy, cool and beautiful. Guess what: it's not a paper book at all, but a beautiful sewn-signature book made out of recyclable polymers!
This book is the most useful and friendly volume on being "green" that I've ever seen. The authors encourage manufacturers to rethink how they design and make things, with an eye to real re-use rather than "downcycling," which is reusing materials in a less-aesthetic and less-valuable form. This way of rethinking manufacturing and use of materials is guilt-free, positive, upbeat, friendly, and seems very doable.
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snowflakeschance, September 7, 2006 (view all comments by snowflakeschance)
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
We are all familiar with these words but, these authors claim that a better solution can be reached by envisioning new ways of manufacturing items. This book is an enjoyable read...and since the book is waterproof, it's also Portland Fall/Winterproof.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780865475878
- Subtitle:
- Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- North Point Press
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Subject:
- Technology
- Subject:
- Industrial Management
- Subject:
- Industrial Design - General
- Subject:
- Recycling
- Subject:
- Environmental aspects
- Subject:
- Ecology - Recycling
- Subject:
- Recycling (waste, etc.)
- Subject:
- Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling
- Subject:
- Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Subject:
- Environmental - General
- Copyright:
- 2002
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Edition Description:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Series Volume:
- no. 48
- Publication Date:
- April 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 7.88x5.14x.68 in. 1.22 lbs.
