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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Audio-CD)

by William McDonough and Michael Braungart;
with Stephen Hoye (reader)
Published by Tantor Media (2008)

McDonough and Braungart argue that the traditional recycling and eco-efficiency approach does not actually prevent ecosystem damage but merely delays it because wastes will eventually be landfilled along with the toxic substances (described as a “cradle to grave” scenario). They contend that the end of a product’s usefulness should provide nourishment for something new; thus, their design philosophy is based on the principle of “waste equals food.” It takes nature as the model (e.g. animals die and their carcasses feed fungi and microbes) for