Reddit reviews Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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I wish that I could find some actual research to back this up, but what I read was in a 'book'. (Cradle to Cradle http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873). Anyway, bottled water, soda, etc, is put in bottles that aren't really made for reuse (washing, bending, smashing and unsmashing) so the plastic degrades pretty quickly. You're then drinking plastic gas, more or less.
Try Cradle to Cradle and The Green Collar Economy.
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“Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” is a book I am currently enjoying that covers these topics. The anti-corporation sentiment is unrealistic, though, as large companies are what develop and set in place sustainable energy via solar, wind, etc. and are able to invest in recycling programs to reuse plastics, etc. in the first place—but that’s my only qualm about the book so far. Here’s an Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873/ref=nodl_
I have a book like that, the pages are some sort of polymer. The book is actually about sustainable methods of production. Cradle to Cradle
Interaction Design
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Lighting Design
Product Design
Product Design
Sound Design
Urban Design
* Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Web Design
in short, it's about designing high quality products from the bottom up(cradle) with materials meant to be completely recycled into new high quality products (to cradle), without downcycling of the materials in the process.
here's the Amazon link to the book they are talking about
I read a book called Cradle to Cradle which, in order to practice what it preached, was printed on a material that was designed to truly recycled rather than down-cycled. The material was some sort of paper-like plastic that could be melted down and remade into another book of the same quality, as opposed to being turned into lower quality pulp for brown paper bags or paper towels, etc.
A consequence of that design was that the book was waterproof and you could read it in the shower. It was actually pretty awesome. The book felt a little different from mass-market paper books (it was a little heavier and pages a fraction thicker) but it didn't feel wrong at all. The book said that it was possible and viable to print other books on similar material, which I have been looking forward to, but have yet to see.
Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0865475873/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Here is one of the authors ted talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design
I would highly recommend using the Earthship design principles for your house. I'm an architecture and environmental science student and have been researching sustainable building for a few years now, as well as having lived in two houses which applied efficient solar passive design and helped to build a number of houses as a labourer for my father's design and construction company. If you want to be building truly sustainably then you need to look much further than standards such as LEED; which are designed to fit within conventional architectural frameworks and thinking and in doing so fail to truly tackle the challenges of designing something that can be constructed and lived in without diminishing the ability of future generations to do the same. Earthships are a good step in the right direction, but they still do not go all the way sadly.
I would recommend reading the book Cradle To Cradle as a good place to start in understanding what it means for something to be truly environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. For if a house can be designed to use net zero electricity and waste yet it is at the expense of Chinese children dying from poison's released when a technology in the house needs to be disposed of and replaced (as a ridiculously extreme fictitious example), then how could it be called sustainable? In order to design our built environment to be sustainable in the core sense of the term all aspects of that design must be attended to with the utmost care, from resource extraction and processing to transportation and distribution of materials to assembly process (how sustainable is it exactly to build an earthship with 50 volunteers over 5 weeks if they're being fed steak every other day and half of them flew long distances to get to the build site? not very, i'd wager).
Achieving as I would call it true sustainability is a very difficult task right now unless you're happy to give up many of the modern comforts and conveniences that we enjoy in Western society, in fact it's nearly impossible. However, I do believe that if we (people like you and I) set out to lay down the groundwork for distributed systems of sustainable resilient development now, using the best technologies and processes available, then we could achieve a truly sustainable society within one generation that has access to all of the same conveniences (this is assuming several technologies are invented that are only now on the horizon of science). Sustainable development is, I believe, core to restoring much of what is perceived to have been eroded within society over the past few centuries, such as equality, strong communities, health (which as Ghandi said, is wealth), relevant education and satisfaction with individuals path through life.
I'm sorry, this is a bit of a rambling post. I get really excited seeing people preparing to move to a way of life which I see as essential if we are to lift humanity from the current gloom and doom that seems to pervade so much of our world right now.
Well I'm sure you've read it, but I've heard cradle to cradle is pretty good
You could look into biomimicry too, there's absolutely loads of interesting projects that deal with biomimicry
Here are some other books that could help:
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two
Hope that helps!
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This may be a bit of a stretch but i loved
Cradle to Cradle, a book on re-imagining sustainable design and engineering, the book itself is even made out of recycled plastics with soy based reusable inks and is waterproof. I found it to be really enlightening and is definitely worth a read.
I read a book titled Cradle to Cradle. The problem right now is we externalize costs of the things we consume.
Upcycling is fascinating in that it redefines how we relate to our waste (not quite the same as recycling). The first book that turned me onto the concept was Cradle to Cradle. The same authors more recently published The Upcycle. I'd recommend the first.
Also, shameless plug for /r/circular_economy, which deals with much of the same philosophy on waste and mimicking nature.
Cradle to Cradle
Design for the Real World
see: cradle to cradle by bill mcdonough and michael braungart.
TL;DR - eliminate destruction of our environment by 1) making waste as valuable a commodity as the item itself and 2) designing out all sources of harmful chemicals from extraction to manufacturing to use and re-use
nike's already made a similar shoe recently, but found a hard time marketing it to the masses; they couldn't find their "air jordan". hippies are bad at sports.
Yeah, Interface Carpets have done incredible things. Ray Anderson the owner of Interface did a great TED talk where he explains their journey. You can find other cases along this vein in the book Cradle to Cradle. They give me faith that business and manufacturing can positively contribute to sustainability if they choose to.
well not that common, but "this book is not a tree" and it is a great read!