Improving Environment By Changing The World: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" What would the world be like if the by-products of human ambitions and activities were always wetlands, wildlands, and beauty?  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 G