In a well-constructed essay of 5 pages‚ compare and contrast Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities and William McDonough & Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things‚ in terms of larger definitions of “sustainability.” Put each book in its historical context and relate it to themes in the course as well as to modern and contemporary issues of architecture‚ cities‚ and the environment. On the last day of class‚ Wednesday‚ December 9‚ we will discuss
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environment and ways for us to not cause much stress on it. Each great thinker came up with their own way to make the planet a better place. Each idea that they came up with were interesting. The one I felt like I could relate to the most is William McDonough. I loved his idea because he touched on the concept of recycling
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Cradle to Cradle In this book the authors and environmentalists William McDonough and Michael Braungart discuss how very un-eco friendly are the people that design our world‚ from our buildings to the products we use and consume. They talk about how our solutions for our environmental problems‚ such as recycling‚ are basically just a band-aid fix for broken bone. They discuss the negative effects that our daily lives have on our environment and offer some solutions of their own to help counteract
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os t 9-607-003 REV: FEBRUARY 7‚ 2008 DEISHIN LEE rP LIONEL BONY Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability yo We put Herman Miller’s corporate environmental goal quite simply: to become a sustainable business— manufacturing products without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations.” — Herman Miller website No tC op Drew Schramm‚ senior VP of Supply Chain Management‚ reflected on the irony
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and not simply an educational device‚ I first must explain the educatory content of the book as it will reveal a new form of thought about sustainable design; the type of design thinking that went into creating a book not made of paper.) William McDonough and Michael Braungart‚ authors of “Cradle to Cradle‚” are Remaking the Way We Make Things. Their book is more than a handbook for future architects‚ engineers‚ and designer‚ it is a bible of revolutionary thinking on life. While designers should
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capital. We use valuable resources to design products to be thrown away. All of the value spent extracting the material and the cost of production are all now wasted. Even biodegradable waste is unable to decompose because it is sitting in a landfill (McDonough and Braungart 27). Not only are products designed to be wasted‚ but they are made out harmful chemicals and substances that effect both humans and the environment. It took until the 1990s‚ after many warnings‚ for the industry to realize the effect
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To what extent were the Agenda 21 goals achieved in Hannover and its surroundings? https://maps.google.de/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=hannover+map&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47b00b514d494f85:0x425ac6d94ac4720‚Hanover&gl=de&ei=ZjmwUb7MLsfSPJqOgdAI&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA Hannover is the capital of the Lower Saxony‚ Germany. It was created in 1946. It has a population of 516.000 people and is therefore the largest city in the state. In the year 1995 Hannover decided to join
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Reference List 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 Sustainability Along the Global Supply Chain ii List of Abbreviations C2C C2G DfE EQAT MBDC PVC TPU Cradle to Cradle Approach Cradle to Grave Approach Design for Environment Environmental Quality Action Team McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry consulting Polyvinyl chloride Thermoplastic polyurethane Sustainability Along the Global Supply Chain 1 1. Introduction Founded in 1905‚ throughout the time Herman Miller has become a leader of residential and
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William McDonough is an architect who believes and strives for product designs which promote economic and environmental vitality. To accomplish this‚ he takes into account how building should be made with consideration to “all children‚ all species‚ for all time”. This‚ in essence‚ was the focus of his presentation. The presentation begins with a reference to Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring‚ which is famous for and regarded as the catalyst for society’s environmental awareness
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Through many of his poems‚ William Carlos Williams presents the reality of poverty among a great portion of the American society. Within Williams’ work of Selected Poems‚ he not only reveals the trapped lifestyle of those living in poverty‚ but he also represents the horror of the war between social classes along with the coinciding war on the poor. Williams’ use of plutonic images among these poems provides powerful meaning to his argument of American societal values‚ claiming the men of America
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