Sunday, February 20, 2011

RR07: Chapter 4-6.

Cradle to Cradle

Chapter 4: In order to keep the nutrient balance, the topic waste equal foods talks about two systems. Technical - consist of plastics and and metals that may not be returned to the earth and safely biodegraded without harm to the natural system. Technical nutrients can create energy. For example: industries retrieve parts of television sets and other service products from landfills.

Chapter 5: This chapter talked about respect for our diversity, and gave an example of a woman from India that would wash her clothes by her hands and rocks. So a manufacturer decided instead of making products that was one size for all, he would make products at a smaller scale -- because everyone calls for their own special needs. By having this new foundation, companies can now use this foundation for the environment even after use. The book even encourages people to throw their trash on their ground so it can decompose and give something back to the ground.

Chapter 6: Putting Eco-Effectiveness into Practice: There's five guiding principles -- 1.) Get "free of" known culprits, 2.) Follow informed personal preferences, 3.) Creating a "passive positive" list, 4.) Activate the positive list, Step 5.) Reinvent.

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