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NeilBlanchard · 10-13-2008, 01:06 AM

Hi,

I hope that you all can read the book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. One of the chapters is called Waste Equals Food.

You can't eat plutonium, and you never will. And you cannot through it away -- because there is no away.

A solution is sustainable because something can eat the waste. In fact, there is no "waste" in a sustainable solution.

They write about biological nutrients, and about technical nutrients. You can't mix them. Each kind of nutrient goes through a full circle cycle again and again, and it sustains us.

Plutonium is not either kind of nutrient.

Have you heard of the Pacific gyre? It's several times larger than Texas, and it has all manner of trash -- anything that has ever been made out of plastic, has ended up in it.

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NeilBlanchard Master EcoModder Join Date: May 2008 Location: Maynard, MA Eaarth Posts: 7,907 Mica Blue - '05 Scion xA RS 2.0 Team Toyota 90 day: 42.48 mpg (US) Forest - '15 Nissan Leaf S Team Nissan 90 day: 156.46 mpg (US) Number 7 - '15 VW e-Golf SEL TEAM VW AUDI Group 90 day: 155.81 mpg (US) Thanks: 3,475 Thanked 2,950 Times in 1,844 Posts	Waste = Food Hi, I hope that you all can read the book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. One of the chapters is called Waste Equals Food. You can't eat plutonium, and you never will. And you cannot through it away -- because there is no away. A solution is sustainable because something can eat the waste. In fact, there is no "waste" in a sustainable solution. They write about biological nutrients, and about technical nutrients. You can't mix them. Each kind of nutrient goes through a full circle cycle again and again, and it sustains us. Plutonium is not either kind of nutrient. Have you heard of the Pacific gyre? It's several times larger than Texas, and it has all manner of trash -- anything that has ever been made out of plastic, has ended up in it. __________________ Sincerely, Neil http://neilblanchard.blogspot.com/ Last edited by NeilBlanchard; 10-13-2008 at 01:12 AM..