And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?
Honor commerce as the engine of change. - William Mcdonough
Honor commerce as the engine of change.
- William Mcdonough
Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for mill… - William Mcdonough
Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for mill…
Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point. - William Mcdonough
Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. - William Mcdonough
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry foreve… - William Mcdonough
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry foreve…
Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions. - William Mcdonough
Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live. - William Mcdonough
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and … - William Mcdonough
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and …
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?' - William Mcdonough
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
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