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Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.
William McDonough
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William McDonough
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
Architect
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William Andrews McDonough
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
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If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.
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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
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Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
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We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
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Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
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It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.
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If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
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We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.
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Honor commerce as the engine of change.
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We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
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I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.
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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
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How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
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Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.
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We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.
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