Cradle-to-Cradle
The cradle-to-cradle approach to design was developed by William McDonough, a notable architect in sustainable buildings, and chemist Michael Braungart in 2002. It is a method used to minimize the environmental impact of products by employing sustainable production, operation, and disposal practices and aims to incorporate social responsibility into product development. Under the cradle-to-cradle philosophy,…
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
by Hannah Stewart – Climate change is often regarded as the most pressing environmental issue of our time. Since climate change is driven by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, we can quantify our individual contributions to climate change by measuring our “carbon footprint.” Understanding our carbon footprint is critical to developing policies and behaviors…
Cap and Trade: Using the Market to Cut Emissions
by Hannah Stewart – Credited with ending the problem of acid rain and predicted to help solve climate change, cap and trade is a market-based approach to environmental regulation. Under cap and trade programs, governments set limits, or “caps,” to how many pollutants an industry is allowed to emit. Any company that releases fewer emissions…
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