Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
by Michael Braungart
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Fashion, Architecture, and Environment.
"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 oneway, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, th...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Fashion, Architecture, and Environment.
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