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Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

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Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: May 17, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 00:21:56
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papasitoman (October 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm)

I gotta get this guy's book! That was one of the better TED presentations.

Psqwall (August 26, 2008 at 2:50 pm)

Yar

zstowasser (August 22, 2008 at 2:45 am)

you must be the change you wish to see in the world.

rpm297 (July 16, 2008 at 5:59 pm)

Designers and architects inherently seem to be great leaders. Just look at the dad from the Brady Bunch.

darrenmmurtha (August 16, 2008 at 4:14 am)

I guess you've never heard of albert speer

mtnpoet (July 11, 2008 at 3:35 am)

I couldn't name many heros off hand, for there are many in this world of ours. William McDonough is one of my ecological heros.

The book Cradle To Cradle was so good I bought a few extra copies for friends. The texture of the book pages itself as a recycled polymar is worth experiencing.

William McDonough gives me hope.

Go0mbah (August 24, 2008 at 4:20 pm)

Bill brought a huge stack of books to Cape Cod when we went on vacation, he had about 20 of them. He showed me that... Even though there are cars available that are "Less Bad" by saying they get approximately 35 MPG, it's still not good. So it's like this, -- Even though we're slowing down our consumption of fossil fuels, it's like instead of heading 50 MPH in the wrong direction, we're heading 20 MPH in the wrong direction. We need to start heading in the right direction.

Go0mbah (August 24, 2008 at 4:23 pm)

Sorry if I didn't describe that very well, I lost track of what I was typing and didn't bother to give up or fix it.

nebai2000 (July 9, 2008 at 11:41 pm)

C2C should be integrated into all curricula in all engineering schools.

mcraw112 (September 2, 2008 at 11:23 pm)

i have to read this book for a design class in college... it made me think in a different way and i thought that this guy is a genus

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