CATF gratefully acknowledges support for this report from the following foundations: The Turner Foundation The John Merck Fund The Joyce Foundation The Heinz Endowments The Rockefeller Brothers Fund The Energy Foundation The Kapor Foundation Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal ...
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...
McDonough, an architect, and Braungart, a chemist, argue that the cradle-to-grave manufacturing model is inherently wasteful. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things To most environmentalists, our polluted oceans and skies, our overflowing landfills and toxic waste dumps all make compel...
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...
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 worl...
Collect data on theend-of-life phase (the ‘Grave’)by answering the following question: What waste treatment do you use for your product? This often depends on the waste-disposal systems of the countries your product is sold/wasted in. ...
regenerative cycles of nature provide models for wholly positive human designs. Within this framework we can create economies that purify air, land, and water, that rely on current solar income and generate no toxic waste, that use safe, healthful materials that replenish the earth or can be pe...
to-cradle thinking, and could not have foreseen all the ways in which its cradle-to-grave model would change the world. And so today, while human endeavors generate great wealth and technological wonders, we also see that there are places in the depths of the Pacific Ocean where particles ...
Design for the environment: from cradle to cradle: Plastics Engineering interviews Dr. Klementina Khait; students in Dr. Klementina Khait's class, "Industrial Ecology of Materials and Products," at Northwestern University get a new take on the "Three Rs"
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...