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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner '''Steven Schmidt Founder/Siterunner''']: In the 1990's, a [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers Bioneers group of visionary environmentalists] was organizing the first decade of global conferences having moved the original venue in the 'city of St. Francis, Santa Fe' in New Mexico to the 'city of St. Francis, San Francisco' in California. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner was starting up publishing works for the Bioneers and staying in San Francisco on Green Street | [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner '''Steven Schmidt Founder/Siterunner''']: In the 1990's, a [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers Bioneers group of visionary environmentalists] was organizing the first decade of global conferences having moved the original venue in the 'city of St. Francis, Santa Fe' in New Mexico to the 'city of St. Francis, San Francisco' in California. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner was starting up publishing works for the Bioneers and staying in San Francisco, on occasion, on Green Street. The Deputy Superintendent for the Presidio national park and I would talk about how the former Army base was being converted, design principles for a people's park and how she remembered lessons learned from Bill McDonough, 'Professor McDonough' from her days studying architecture at the University of Virginia and Yale. William McDonough had put together back then an impressive new way of seeing the interconnections between design and the environment, ways to build with 'smart' design principles. His [https://mcdonough.com/writings/the-hannover-principles/ Hannover design principles] were, I remember, one of the first serious looks at 'relational reality' as we were referring to it in the original green transformational ecological work we were up to... Step by step, year by year, many of these original ideas became threads, both in the world of McDonough and his followers, students and clients, and among us and our friends, associates, activists and 'global green team'. | ||
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Steven Schmidt Founder/Siterunner: In the 1990's, a Bioneers group of visionary environmentalists was organizing the first decade of global conferences having moved the original venue in the 'city of St. Francis, Santa Fe' in New Mexico to the 'city of St. Francis, San Francisco' in California. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner was starting up publishing works for the Bioneers and staying in San Francisco, on occasion, on Green Street. The Deputy Superintendent for the Presidio national park and I would talk about how the former Army base was being converted, design principles for a people's park and how she remembered lessons learned from Bill McDonough, 'Professor McDonough' from her days studying architecture at the University of Virginia and Yale. William McDonough had put together back then an impressive new way of seeing the interconnections between design and the environment, ways to build with 'smart' design principles. His Hannover design principles were, I remember, one of the first serious looks at 'relational reality' as we were referring to it in the original green transformational ecological work we were up to... Step by step, year by year, many of these original ideas became threads, both in the world of McDonough and his followers, students and clients, and among us and our friends, associates, activists and 'global green team'.
- A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat, an h/t to Bill/William/Professor McDonough, a true Planet Citizen who has created a legacy with his work, a body of thought and ideas, Green Best Practices that will continue on...
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"Cradle to Cradle design" (also referred to as 'Cradle to Cradle', 'C2C', 'cradle 2 cradle', or 'regenerative design') is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems. It models human industry on nature's processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. It suggests that industry must protect and enrich ecosystems and nature's biological metabolism while also maintaining a safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of organic and technical nutrients.[1] Put simply, it is a holistic economic, industrial and social framework that seeks to create systems that are not only efficient but also essentially waste free.[2] The model in its broadest sense is not limited to industrial design and manufacturing; it can be applied to many aspects of human civilization such as urban environments, buildings, economics and social systems.
Cradle to Cradle product certification began as a proprietary system; however, in 2012 MBDC turned the certification over to an independent non-profit called the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. Independence, openness, and transparency are the Institute's first objectives for the certification protocols.[3] The phrase "cradle to cradle" itself was coined by Walter R. Stahel in the 1970s. The current model is based on a system of "lifecycle development" initiated by Michael Braungart and colleagues at the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in the 1990s and explored through the publication A Technical Framework for Life-Cycle Assessment.
In 2002, Braungart and William McDonough published a book called Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, a manifesto for cradle to cradle design that gives specific details of how to achieve the model. #cradletocradle
The term Cradle to Cradle is a registered trademark of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) consultants.
Business, non-profits, educational institutions, individuals internationally have utilized the 'circular design' principles and ideas of 'Cradle to Cradle' in moving to new ways of designing and building...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/The_Change_in_Sustainability_Framework.jpg
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Consider the Hannover Principles
McDonough's "Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things", a "Centennial Sermon" delivered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine , NYC, February 7, 1993
Employ the concept of "cradle-to-cradle" design and green principles of sustainable practices and "affirming life" on our home planet
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