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Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
William McDonough
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William McDonough
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
Architect
Designer
Environmentalist
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Tōkyō
William Andrews McDonough
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Sustainability
Takes
Forever
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Honor commerce as the engine of change.
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
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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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I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.
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In planetary terms, we're all downstream.
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I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.
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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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The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.
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Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them right, with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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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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I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.
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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
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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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