5/19/2023 0 Comments Michael braungart cradle to cradle![]() ![]() Hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. 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 Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask. ![]() But as William McDonough and Michael Braungart point out in this 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. ![]() "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. Remaking The Way we Make Things' is a manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism ![]()
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