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Cradle to Cradle: Changing the Way We Make Things

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Cradle to Cradle: Changing the Way We Make Things
9.99 €
Reduce, reuse, recycle. “Do more with less to minimize waste,” environmentalists urge. But, as this book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way production model, the cradle-to-grave model. This model dates back to the Industrial Revolution and immediately wastes as much as ninety percent of the materials created to make durable goods.

Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably harm nature? Why not take nature as a model? A tree produces thousands of flowers to create another tree. We do not regard such abundance as wasteful; on the contrary, we regard it as safe, beautiful, and highly efficient. “Waste is food,” is the first principle outlined in the book. Products can be designed to feed something new at the end of their lifespan – either as “biological nutrients” that are safely returned to the environment, or as “technical nutrients” that remain in closed loops of technological cycles.

In developing their principles for (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, William McDonagh and Michael Braungart make a viable case for change.
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