William McDonough

century, Villa Savoye; and Alvar Aalto’s mid-20th century, Villa Mairea. Reviewing and rereading these building’s physical designs and their architects design thinking we begin to unfold how contemporary sustainable design today came to be. Examining William McDonough’s sustainable office complex as a finale to these developments it is visible where the endeavours of the past century have taken

I read a few of the essays published by Aldo Leopold from 1998 to 2001 in a book of collective essays called For the Health of the Land. The collection is a plea from Leopold for the development of land ethic. He believes that humans have the responsibility to interact with the land in ways that promote its good being. Even though the essays were published over 50 years ago, progress in Leopold’s concept of land health has just begun. The EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency) are helping by conducting

In Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the two authors take into great detail by explaining the “cradle-to-grave” manufacturing system. The system explains every step of a product’s life from the creation to the disposal of the product. It is important to learn about this system because in order for a company to track and take responsibility of their hazardous waste. The system itself explained where products are created and the mass production goes into this system without

PART 2 CIRCULAR ECONOMY ‘Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing’ Oscar Wilde, 1890 Again, my concern started with a personal experience. In 2014, I was working as an Experience Designer for Universal Pictures NBC International Ltd. . The film industry has a huge budget to spend on the building of visual artefacts. However, I was quite shocked by the squandering of resources I witnessed. There was no care or awareness of sustainability. Also, I expected designers

Society does have some control over the system of production and can make a difference, for better or worse, over the future of the environment. William McDonough and Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle/ The Upcycle can relate to Bell's views in that as society becomes more complex, we may see a down shift in the environment. McDonough and Braungart bring forth the idea that the Industrial Revolution is constantly improving and growing towards a non-manual labor workforce. This is great

In Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the two authors take into great detail by explaining the “cradle-to-grave” manufacturing system. The system explains every step of a product’s life from the creation to the disposal of the product. It is important to learn about this system because in order for a company to track and take responsibility of their hazardous waste . The system itself explained where products are created and the mass production goes into this system without

Essay Sustainability Along the Global Supply Chain Spring Term 2011 Herman Miller Case Analysis Name: Victoria Kondratova, Ekaterina Tarkhova Address: Bischof-Dirichs-Str. 56, 65375 Oestrich-Winkel Submitted to: Prof. Dr. Julia Wolf Submission Date: April 1st, 2011 Table of Contents: Table of Contents List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Herman Miller’s Environmental Protection Strategy and its Necessity 3. Cradle-to-cradle Design Protocol 4. TPU verses PVC Approach 5. Implementation

lower concentrations of minerals, as may be found in the northwestern United States, requires less detergent than water in the Southwest to clean clothing. However, detergent has a universal dosage and strength despite these regional differences (McDonough 2002, p. 29). Excess detergent can contaminate waterways and alter aquatic ecosystems. Another example is lawn fertilization. Many people over-fertilize their lawns in order to improve the color, which can harm aquatic life when runoff occurs. Many

The Development of William Mossop’s Character in Hobson’s Choice William Mossop started off as a lodger lodging with Ada Figgins. He was shy and had no ambitions working at Hobson’s shoe shop at the bottom of the chain. At the end of the play he was ambitious, married and the joint owner of Hobsons shop. The audience sympathises with Willie the first time he appears on stage because he ‘only comes half way up the trap door’. This is because of his social standing and he feels that he is

Memory and Memory loss in Death of a Salesman and Soucouyant The Death of a Salesman and Soucouyant both broach the topic of memory, in opposite but complementary ways. Where ‘Death’ is about falsifying positive memories, and Soucouyant is about ‘forgetting to forget’. Where adeles memories are a trauma, and very much tried to forget, willies memories are a solace to him, and a way for him to cope with his failures. Both detail an unchronological slip of a figure into mental illness, and both end