William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle Sustainability
By Elizabeth Brewster
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All sustainability, like all politics, is local. Those are the words of William McDonough, a veteran of the green architecture movement and a man who sees the new Obama administration as a harbinger of the sea change going on in sustainable development.
"It's critical to have a large-scale strategy for the reindustrialization of the country," says McDonough.
McDonough, founding principal of the William McDonough + Partners design firm, based in Charlottesville, Va., helped launch the green architecture movement in the early 1980s. In 2002 he and Michael Braungart, a German chemist and Green Party leader, co-authored "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" (North Point Press) to advocate the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design. In fact, the book was even printed on a synthetic "paper" made out of plastic resins and inorganic fillers, so it can be recycled just like polypropylene.
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