This is a really interesting documentary about working toward no waste, making products that are truly recyclable or compostable, buildings that respect the occupants and the land, and doing it in a way that is beneficial to business.
Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill. But there is hope. The German chemist, Michael Braungart, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the technosphere (all the technical products we make), production and consumption could become beneficial for the planet.
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April 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Fantastic video and concepts! This seems so fundamental and I feel like we must have the book! Found it at Barnes and Noble and it has a hefty price tag to go with its hefty weight. Perhaps I will hold off until pay day and purchase it at Changing Hands Bookstore to support such a great local business. :c) Thanks for posting the video!