William McDonough, architect, author and pioneer of the circular economy talks to us about design. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance, a follow-up book to Cradle to Cradle, was published in 2013. This book's theories will shape our future, and this updated edition is essential reading: a bold, practical and overwhelmingly positive manifesto for our planet's prosperous future. William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design TED Talk. Architect William McDonough believes green design can prevent environmental disaster and drive economic growth. In 2002, McDonough co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, which is widely acknowledged as a seminal text of the sustainability movement. Instead, they look to nature and find a production system which mimics nature's model to our commercial and environmental advantage, a system in which waste equals food. The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. With clear, accessible – even humorous – arguments, celebrated chemist Michael Braungart and inspirational architect William McDonough challenges the notion that human industry must damage the world. And the planed needs it right now.Īn exciting, simple, groundbreaking new vision, Cradle to Cradle offers this approach. What the planet needs is a major rethink a new approach which directly combats the problem rather than slowly perpetuating it. Nowadays, most of us recycle, but what about industry, where the real damage is done? Its limited, if well-intentioned, approach maintains the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model of the Industrial Revolution, the very model that creates immense amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. How can we avoid environmental disaster?

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