Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Ranked #2 in Sustainability, Ranked #3 in Manufacturing — see more rankings.
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces... more
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Kate Raworth Helped me to reimagine how industry could be designed to work with, rather than against, the cycles of the living world. (Source)
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Rankings by Category
Cradle to Cradle is ranked in the following categories:
- #33 in Architecture
- #49 in Climate Change
- #26 in Design
- #23 in Ecology
- #43 in Energy
- #16 in Environment
- #18 in Environmental Science
- #23 in Environmental Studies
- #17 in Environmentalism
- #15 in Product Design
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