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Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that allows us to eat, breathe and live” problems). Solutions cannot come from just reducing, reusing, and recycling, however. Equally important is rethinking the foundation that these well-known three Rs are based on. Ecological engineer and permaculture landscape designer Bill Mollison summed it up nicely when he said, "Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple." As is noted by revolutionary architect and designer William McDonough and chemist and co-author Michael Braungart in their book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, we are accustomed to thinking of industry and the environment as being at odds with one another. Since traditional methods of...
Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
Over the 20 years of the commercialization of GMOs, not only have they failed to deliver higher yields as promised, but according to numerous reports, they have also led to serious destruction of the environment through causing increased use of toxic chemicals, and...
Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that...
8 Tips for Increasing Your Resilience
In my family we call being prepared for inevitable economic and environmental instability “resilience”. We’ve been inspired largely by the concept of Permaculture, which is a design system based on ecological principles for designing resilient, locally based,...
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