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Cradle to Cradle

Remaking the Way We Make Things

Since the other student who read the book addressed the connect of “waste = food” and recycling vs up cycling, I will focus on the argument “respect diversity”.

The industrial revolution brought about many great advances in technology. We became more “efficient” at producing food and other consumer products, [...]

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle deals with something I think about constantly: waste. McDonough and Braungart do a nice job of laying out what it means to live in a consumerist, unsustainable society, while categorizing the solutions of a cradle-to-cradle system. In this new system, they explore how the consumption and the re-use of materials positively affects the inherent [...]