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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

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0865475873
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9780865475878
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North Point Press, April 2002. Trade Paperback . Used Good. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages generally clean and unmarked. A few pen marks on the cover and first page. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

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“Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, 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? 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, William McDonough and Michael Braungart make an exciting and viable case for change.

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Bookseller
Firefly Bookstore LLC US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
361673
Title
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Author
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0865475873
ISBN 13
9780865475878
Publisher
North Point Press
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
Date Published
April 2002
Pages
208
Bookseller catalogs
Science/Nature/Environment;

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