The Monticello Dialogues – Part 2 – A Revolution in Thinking with William McDonough

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From rethinking the concept of the automobile (car as nutrition!) to the “semiology of extreme danger” (nuclear power plants), to McDonough’s declaration of interdependence: which he calls The Hanover Principles, this dialogue has more new ideas per minute than all those found in line at the patent office.  Spirituality is brought to the labs of the bioengineering industry, horizontal chimneys to Chinese coal fired power plants and this second in the special three hour series recorded at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home and architectural masterpiece concludes with musings on  the existence of good and evil and a look at the spiritual practitioner as celebrant . Time magazine named William McDonough a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999.

William McDonough is former Dean of the Architecture Department at the University of Virginia, Time magazine named McDonough a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, and he is the winner of three U.S. presidential awards including the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development.  He is the author with his partner, Michael Braungart, of the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Farrar, Straus and Geroux 2002).

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• Who is building the first car DISassembly plant?
• How far away is “away” when we throw things “away?”
• Are products that last best for the Earth?
• Would Thomas Jefferson support nuclear power?
• Bioengineering: When does it become impossible to be a vegetarian?
• Is sustainability the best we can hope for?
• Is 100% fabulous even imaginable?
• What was Jefferson’s approach to spirituality?

Interview Date: 5/17/2001 Host: Michael Toms Program Number: 2901