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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by McDonough, William; Braungart, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0865475873
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475878
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
North Point Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Thomas, with hope . . . William McDonough, from you dad." Fifteenth printing. This book is a smooth "water-proof durabook" which is heavy, feels like plastic, playing into the design-centric bent of the incredibly influential, very popular environmental manifesto (a new edition was published by Vintage in 2010). McDonough is a leaning architect and promoter of green design, and has presented on the subject at the World Economic Forum, for example. Among other accolades, he was named 24th of Fortune Magazine's "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" in 2019 because of his contributions to the green building movement, the circular economy, and plastic redesign. Fine except for a remainder line on bottom text block face. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
“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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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1674194179275
- Title
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Author
- McDonough, William; Braungart, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0865475873
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475878
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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