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2013-04-09 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In 2002, architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart shook up the world of sustainability with their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. It proposed a radical rethinking, not just of human manufacturing, but of the way humans relate to the earth. Rather than simply reducing the harm we do, humans could become a source of health, a positive force in the world. The iconic example was a tree. A tree is not "efficient," it is abundant, generative, sustaining its own...
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