Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto. This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing,we could be taking nature as a model for making things. With the right redesign,objects that have come to the end of their useful lives should provide the basis for something new. In designing and producing products we need to stop worrying about being'less bad'and start finding ways of actually being good. PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784873653Number of pages: 192Weight: 142 gDimensions: 178 x 129 x 12 mm
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The best argument for good design is that it lasts. The best argument for good science is that it deplores waste. I'm bored with guilty and technologically illiterate environmental Luddites describing a future of guilt and privation led in caves. There's an alternative responsible future persuasively offered by Braungart and McDonough. The survival of the planet can be re-stated in terms of stimulus,opportunity,challenge and reward. Works for me.
Already embraced by far-thinking manufacturers and governments.It's one of the most thought-provoking books I've ever readEnvironmentalists too rarely apply the ecological wisdom of life to our problems. Asking how a cherry tree would design an energy efficient building is only one of the creative'practices'that McDonough and Braungart spread,like a field of wild flowers,before their readers. This book will give you renewed hope that,indeed,'it is darkest before the dawn'Achieving the great economic transition to more equitable,ecologically sustainable societies requires nothing less than a design revolution - beyond today's fossilized industrialism. This enlightened and enlightening book shows us how - and indeed,that'God is in the details.'A must for every library and every concerned citizen
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