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By ilyanajw

Worth every minute and then some.. I enjoyed William McDonough’s intelligence, vision, and humor. I believe you will too. He is addressing real design solutions that is more then than just recycling.
The video above is 1/2 of the actual talk. The entire 20 minute talk can be viewed by clicking on the title of this post.

The following is a wonderful cartoon/ narrative about how we create and distribute our “stuff", and consequences we frequently don’t consider.

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Snippets from the Harper’s Weekly Review from August 21,2007:

Jittery global markets brought on by the subprime mortgage
crisis led the Federal Reserve to cut its discount rate on
loans to banks by half a percentage point. Citing America’s
$1 trillion debt to China, Senator Joe Biden warned, “We
have to get off that sucking off of that breast which is
China.” It was reported that a South Carolina small-parts
supplier run by twin sisters had cheated the Pentagon
out of $20.5 million in shipping costs; two 19-cent
washers sent to an Army base in Texas, for instance,
incurred a $998,798 charge.

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