Cradle to Cradle
I have just finished reading ‘Cradle to Cradle’ by William McDonough & Michael Braungart and found it to be a most interesting book (if a little difficult to read sometimes)
Like any book that introduces a difficult, new concept, there are a few buzz words to get to grips with. Normally this doesn’t bother me but with this book, for some reason I found myself having to backtrack to find out what the hell was going on. Or perhaps that was just me?
That said, it is a fairly minor niggle. The content of the book is the really interesting thing. As an Architect I was particularily interested in the sentiments about the placelessness of the international style (or the dumbed down international style) and also the passages on the user experience of buildings. I was impressed by the authors capacity to indulge this C2C philosophy, he must be a very persuasive individual and I would love to know how to convince some of my clients to embrace an idea against their business upbringing.
I have leant the book out to friends (thinking that the best use of a book is to be read as many times before being posted on a shelf) so hopefully I might be able to get a bit of a discussion going with some of my less carbon nuetral chums.
A good book worth a read and by no means a stick for eco meanies to bash everyone with.
