It inspires us to constantly seek improvement in our designs, and to share our discoveries with others. This paradigm shift reveals opportunities to improve quality, increase value and spur innovation. Rather than seeking to minimize the harm we inflict, Cradle to Cradle reframes design as a positive, regenerative force-one that creates footprints to delight in, not lament. Designs that respond to the challenges and opportunities offered by each place fit elegantly and effectively into their own niches. Around the world, geology, hydrology, photosynthesis and nutrient cycling, adapted to locale, yield an astonishing diversity of natural and cultural life. Similarly, human constructs can utilize clean and renewable energy in many forms-such as solar, wind, geothermal, gravitational energy and other energy systems being developed today-thereby capitalizing on these abundant resources while supporting human and environmental health.Ĭelebrate diversity. Living things thrive on the energy of current solar income. Everything can be designed to be disassembled and safely returned to the soil as biological nutrients, or re-utilized as high quality materials for new products as technical nutrients without contamination. In nature, the “waste” of one system becomes food for another. The book put forward a design framework characterized by three principles derived from nature:Įverything is a resource for something else. See Adam Rome’s full list of prescient classics here.In their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart presented an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste. Inspiring particularly to those individuals who strived to invent eco-efficient ways of providing energy, building things and managing wastes. Although in 1969, Fuller’s O perating Manual was new and inspiring. Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Michael Braungart, as a much better introduction to sustainable design compared to R. Rome described Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, written by William McDonough and Dr.
We need to approach the goal from many directions, with flexibility and tenacity.” Rome stated that we cannot “advance in a straight line. He explains the books of this decade demonstrate that building a sustainable civilization is multidimensional. Adam Rome, a professor of history and English and the Unidel Helen Gouldner Chair for the Environment at the University of Delaware in Newark, recently published on article on, highlighting five books that first made sustainability a public issue in the 1960s and 1970s.
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