Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
If you haven't heard of or recently read this book, it's an absolute must-read for anyone who is a human being and/or lives on earth.
Read it, share it and then buy another copy.
Repeat.
McDonough is an architect and Braungart is a chemist. Nothing they've written in this manifesto is necessarily "new," and the book was first published in 2002, however the content and the simple, riveting presentation thereof make this an eye-opener for any consumer or house-dweller. It's an honest assessment of current and an idealistic prolepsis of future manufacturing and fabrication techniques, at its most technical. In the most broad sense, it's turned the so-called "green" movement completely over and spanked it.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Food
Lion and Compass in Sunnyvale, California
A long-time favorite of the local work-force, ask for the executive room if you've got 5 or more in your party. The service is good, the food is great and the ambiance is excellent.
Their menu is American/Californian and I recommend the watermelon gazpacho, the goat cheese salad, the pot-ae-feu, and the seabass. Any combination of berries and sorbet will do for a wonderful, light desert.
www.lionandcompass.com
A long-time favorite of the local work-force, ask for the executive room if you've got 5 or more in your party. The service is good, the food is great and the ambiance is excellent.
Their menu is American/Californian and I recommend the watermelon gazpacho, the goat cheese salad, the pot-ae-feu, and the seabass. Any combination of berries and sorbet will do for a wonderful, light desert.
www.lionandcompass.com
Introductions
Michelle's Introduction
Welcome to our blog, theseareafewofourfavoritethings. Quite a mouthful. Well, we've got quite an earful for you if you've got the time!
This blog is maintained and edited by myself and a close friend of mine, Karina.
Together, we seek to inform, enlighten and entertain, but hopefully never regurgitate.
We'll also be siphoning real opinions, experiences and case studies from our respective communities.
I am a 28-year-old Architecture student, in my fifth and final year of studies in San Francisco, California.
I am committed to personal growth and development, the acquisition of knowledge, and social responsibility and civic duty.
Karina's Introduction
There are so many things I could write to describe myself, but they all seem so trivial compared to the life I live everyday; so in short I am married to the man I thought never existed and I have two amazing little miracles that call me Mommy.
I am blessed.
Welcome to our blog, theseareafewofourfavoritethings. Quite a mouthful. Well, we've got quite an earful for you if you've got the time!
This blog is maintained and edited by myself and a close friend of mine, Karina.
Together, we seek to inform, enlighten and entertain, but hopefully never regurgitate.
We'll also be siphoning real opinions, experiences and case studies from our respective communities.
I am a 28-year-old Architecture student, in my fifth and final year of studies in San Francisco, California.
I am committed to personal growth and development, the acquisition of knowledge, and social responsibility and civic duty.
Karina's Introduction
There are so many things I could write to describe myself, but they all seem so trivial compared to the life I live everyday; so in short I am married to the man I thought never existed and I have two amazing little miracles that call me Mommy.
I am blessed.
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