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"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their 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. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask.

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, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
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Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:

- Turn your thermostat a degree lower in the winter; if every home in America did it we'd save enough energy to power all the home is Iowa for one whole year!

- Take a shorter shower; if America subtracted just one minute from their daily showers we'd save twice the amount of freshwater withdrawn from the Great Lakes every day!

- Reuse ribbon and wrapping paper; if two-thirds of Americans each saved an arm's length of ribbon this year, we could tie a bow around the earth!

With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.]]> 365291 3.60 295 111 365290 3.65 345 132 2813838 0.0 0 0 3776 4.21 1822 406 2007 1699164 3442761832 9783442761838 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187093792m/1699164.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187093792s/1699164.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1699164.Einfach_intelligent_produzieren_ 4.50 2 3775 4.21 1822 406 3776 4.21 1822 406 2003 6698594 3434506160 9783434506164 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6698594-die-n-chste-industrielle-revolution 4.00 1 3775 4.21 1822 406 3776 4.21 1822 406 2008 6590992 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6590992-cradle-to-cradle 0.0 0 3776 4.21 1822 406 2002 7058021 1429973846 9781429973847 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7058021-cradle-to-cradle 0.0 0 3776 4.21 1822 406 3775 4.21 1822 406 2002 6788510 022408786X 9780224087865 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6788510-cradle-to-cradle 0.0 0 3775 4.21 1822 406 3776 4.21 1822 406 2008 6607812 0814662226 9780814662229 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6607812-words-and-gestures-in-the-liturgy 0.0 0 1920272 0.0 0 0 3776 4.21 1822 406 2983443 0.0 0 0 2983444 0.0 0 0 2009 6698593 383330183X 9783833301834 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6698593-einfach-intelligent-produzieren 0.0 0 3775 4.21 1822 406 3776 4.21 1822 406 782537 3.67 3 0 2005