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 Giroux 2002)
• The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance (North Point Press 2013)

 To learn more about the work of William McDonough go to www.McDonough.com and www.c2ccertified.org. 

Bioneers Series II: Improving Environment By Changing The World includes the following programs:

• BN201 Part 1: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature
• BN202 Part 2: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance
• BN203 Part 3: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames
• BN204 Part 4: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
• BN205 Part 5: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an                            Agriculture of Relationships
• BN206 Part 6: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life Lunch
• BN207 Part 7: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward                   the Local
• BN208 Part 8: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine
• BN209 Part 9: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land
• BN210 Part 10First Nations and the Future of the Earth
• BN211 Part 11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design
• BN212 Part 12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging                                     Environmental Health Movement
• BN213 Part 13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

The Bioneers series consists of three sets of 13 programs each:

Bioneers Series I: The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Bioneers Series II "Improving Environment By Changing The World
Bioneers Series III

Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered. Join us as we look deeply into the magic and mystery of the convergence between leading-edge science and ancient wisdom for a Declaration of Interdependence for the new millennium. Though these programs were produced in the 1990s the contents of this series are timelessly relevant.

 HOST: Michael Toms     INTERVIEW DATE: 10/19/2000           PROGRAM NUMBER: BN201