“The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.” ThinkingProblemEnergyMaterialsPlentyCarbon Author:William McDonough
“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!” UseHappensEnergyFunMillionsMinutesEnvironmentalNuclearMilesEnormousFusionWirelessNuclear BombNuclear EnergyFissionNuclear ReactorsNuclear FissionNuclear Fusion Author:William McDonough
“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.” FormEnergyWaterTreeProduceBuildingWasteClimateStoresReleaseSolar Energy Author:William McDonough
“Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'” MenYoungEnergyArchitectureYoung ManSolar Energy Author:William McDonough
“Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.” IfsNeedsTryingMindUseEnergyForceProcessTermCommunityQualityModernObjectsMaterialsProductsReturnResourcesLifetimeComplicatedConversionTraditionalExpensiveConsumptionMessySaving MoneyRecyclingRecycledReuse Author:William McDonough
