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"Ô lecteur, dévore ce livre !" souhaitent en secret la plupart des auteurs, et ceux de l'ouvrage que vous tenez entre vos mains ne dérogent pas à la règle, à ceci près que pour eux, la formule ne s'entend pas uniquement au sens figuré !
Car au-delà du fait que Michael Braungart et William McDonough espèrent que cet essai sera lu d'un trait par un lecteur passionné par le sujet, ils espèrent tout autant qu'un jour, le plus tôt possible, ce livre, comme toute production humaine, pourra littéralement être mangé, ou tout du moins digéré, sous forme biologique ou technologique.
En effet, les deux auteurs de Cradle to Cradle, entendez du Berceau au Berceau - et non plus du berceau à la tombe ! - militent depuis plusieurs années pour une " éco-efficacité " qui ne mettrait plus la croissance économique et l'écologie dos-à-dos : plutôt que de chercher à réduire notre consommation, créons un modèle industriel basé sur une sorte de compostage appliqué à tous les objets, imitant ainsi l'équilibre des écosystèmes naturels. Loin des habituels discours catastrophistes sur l'avenir de notre planète, Cradle to Cradle propose des solutions concrètes qui peuvent faire de nos déchets d'aujourd'hui nos ressources de demain.
Depuis sa parution initiale en américain, Cradle to Cradle a été traduit en plusieurs langues
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industrial management, environmental aspects, recycling, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Productontwikkeling, Desenho industrial (aspectos ambientais), Vie des produits, Recycling (Waste), Recyclage, Umweltverträgliches Produkt, Gestion industrielle, Reciclagem de resíduos urbanos, Umweltbezogenes Management, Umweltschutz, Duurzame consumptiegoederen, Protection de l'environnement, Gaspillage, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Aspect de l'environnement, Design, Gestion d'entreprise, Recyclage (Déchets, etc.), Bionik, Industrial management, environmental aspects, Industrial design, Industrial management, Environmental aspects, Recycling (waste, etc.), Industrial management--environmental aspects, Td794.5 .m395 2002, 745.2Showing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective.
Waste equals food.
Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new. They can be conceived as "biological nutrients" that will easily reenter the water or soil without depositing synthetic materials and toxins. Or they can be "technical nutrients" that will continually circulate as pure and valuable materials within closed-loop industrial cycles, rather than being "recycled"--really, downcycled--into low-grade materials and uses. Drawing on their experience in (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice, and show how anyone involved with making anything can begin to do so as well.
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