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New Dimensions
Since 1973 New Dimensions Radio/Media, a not-for-profit membership organization, has been producing and distributing the "New Dimensions" radio series heard worldwide. Each week, this life-long learning program series presents leading-edge thinkers, scientists, artists, healers, ecologists, spiritual leaders, and social architects in award winning, deep dialogues.
What is meant by the idea of “Cradle to Cradle?” What is the difference between technonutrients and bionutrients and how can we safely recycle both? How can we turn sewage treatment plants into nutrient management plants? What is happening in China? William McDonough says, “Things are designed to either go back to biology or back to technology without contaminating each other. . . Technonutrients can be recaptured to be reutilized forever, in safe healthy ways.” He tells us that we can and must design things to go back into an intelligent material pool for human benefit without contaminating the environment. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
Bio
William McDonough is an anticipatory design architect. But more than that he is a philosopher for the 21st century and is asking some of the most critical questions we should be thinking about in these challenging times. He’s the former Dean of the Architecture Department at the University of Virginia, and was named “Hero of the Planet” by Time magazine. He’s also the winner of three U.S. presidential awards including the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development.
He is the author with his partner, Michael Braungart, of:
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Farrar, Straus and Geroux 2002)
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance (North Point Press 2013)
To learn more about the work of William McDonough go to www.McDonough.com and www.c2ccertified.org.
Topics Explored in This Dialogue
- What is meant by the idea “Cradle to Cradle”
- What is the “technosphere” and why must it be kept separate from the biosphere
- What is meant by accruing a “materials bank”
- What is the difference between a consumer and a customer
- How China is looking at sustainable development
- How we can turn sewage treatment plants into nutrient management plants
- How humans can become tools of the natural world once more
Host: Justine Willis Toms Interview Date: 11/15/2012 Program Number: 3455
