Cradle-to-cradle design

At a fundamental level, the new paradigm proposes that human design can learn from nature to be effective, safe, enriching, and delightful. Cradle-to-cradle design models human industry on nature’s processes, in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. Industry must protect and enrich ecosystems nature’s biological metabolism while also maintaining a safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of minerals, synthetics, and other materials.

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Dozens of advancements in areas from biomimcry, to cradle-to-cradle design, green building, nanotechnology, 3D printing, energy harvesting, and sustainable development are emerging and the instances of companies investing in new methods of dealing with water and materials shortages are becoming more common.

New Video Points to Next Generation of Sustainable Business and Competitive Advantage

If you know anything about cradle-to-cradle design, you will understand that we shouldn't have to give up our fancy materials and heavy wall packaging to be sustainable.

Sustainability & cosmetic packaging: the inconvenient truth; an unconventional opportunity: end of life may be the biggest challenge facing our industry

E Magazine: What is Cradle-to-Cradle design, and how does it differ from recycling?

Braungart: Cradle-to-Cradle design means that, instead of minimizing damage, we create positively.

Michael Braungart: designing "eco-effective" solutions

Ultimately, however, our cradle-to-cradle design strategy is focused not simply on being "less bad" but on creating completely healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil or reused by industry again and again.

First in a series: in building and product design, we must think green; The notion that buildings can benefit both people and the environment is gaining influence

Last fall, the agency's Office of Solid Waste partnered with McDonough, Braungart Design Chemistry to host a Cradle-to-Cradle Design Challenge, the results of which were presented at the PackExpo Trade Show in Las Vegas.

Sustainable packaging takes hold: its components may break down quickly, but as a concept, sustainable packaging is proving it has staying power

To test for sustainability, Shaw uses the Cradle-to-Cradle Design Protocol, a third-party system created by designer William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart.

SHAW ADOPTS POLICY TO DEVELOP CONTINUALLY RECYCLABLE CARPETS

The cradle-to-cradle design frame work allows the carpet at the end of its life cycle to be remade into carpet.

New flooring lines

Cradle-to-cradle design involves learning from nature through "biomimicry," an effort to design "buildings like trees, cities like forests.