Reviewing the New BookTech
Fascinating review of a new book of and about applied new book concept. I have been talking about various types of new media-technologies for years and now they are starting to hit the shelves. This is great stuff and Tom Armitage goes in-depth with good insights.
Blog all dog-eared pages: “Cradle to Cradleâ€
Any way you look at it, William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle is an unusual book.
It’s a book that invites the reader to envisage a world in which the concept of waste does not exist, and where re-use is preferred to recycling; in short, a world where products have a true life-cycle, rather than a passage from cradle-to-grave.
It’s an exciting book, if only because the physical artefact embodies its message:
Cradle to Cradle is not made out of paper, you see. It’s a format called Durabook. The Durabook is made of a kind of plastic, and is entirely waterproof. More interestingly, it’s entirely reusable - the ink can be easily removed to allow reprinting or notebook use, and the “paper†itself can be melted down and reused without giving off toxins. It’s a good environmental citizen, essentially: reusable, up-cyclable, and with no harmful byproducts. (It’s also surprisingly heavy for such a slim format).

March 27th, 2008 at 9:33 pm CDT
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