In honor of the theme, we have decided to recycle a post title.
Before we share our own personal reflections, we thought we might share one more really cool project that seeks to reduce our consumption by increasing recycling. Check out William McDonough and Michael Braungart's cradle-to-cradle design. Cradle-to-cradle creates products that never see the landfill in their entire life cycle-an important part of that is removing down-cycling from their life cycles. Some materials are "down-cycled" instead of recycled, because the material in its re-used state, is lower quality or less useful than the state is was in before. McDounough and Braungart co-wrote a book printed on plastic (cool, right?) that you can find here. You should also check out the website about cradle-to-cradle design and certification. They also made a documentary called "Waste=Food" that explores the unnecessary sacrifices we're making to consume. You can watch it on google video, which sounds kind of sketchy, but it works! Enjoy!
Peace love + everything local.
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