Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Author: William McDonough
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….Read More
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