Cradle to Cradle
Subtitle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Edition: First edition
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780865475878
Copyright date: 2002
Description: A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism. "Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists--in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As this book argues, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that 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, they ask. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new. Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.--From publisher description.
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Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: This Book Is Not a Tree
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter One
title: A Question of Design
pagenum: 17; label: Chapter Two
title: Why Being "Less Bad" Is No Good
pagenum: 45; label: Chapter Three
title: Eco-Effectiveness
pagenum: 68; label: Chapter Four
title: Waste Equals Food
pagenum: 92; label: Chapter Five
title: Respect Diversity
pagenum: 118; label: Chapter Six
title: Putting Eco-Effectiveness into Practice
pagenum: 157; label: Notes
pagenum: 187; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 193