William McDonough, Michael Braungart: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - Groups

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Sustainable Architecture and Green Design 37 books / 130 members / 23 posts This is a group for people interested in sustainable buildings--their design, construction, and inhabitation. Environmental awareness begins with learning and building a library of knowledge about how our actions impact our environment.

Prudent value investors: bears, bulls and new species. 60 books / 1 members / 2 posts I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a few bucks warming my pocket than Mr. T's golden chain-mail.

To these ends, focus on fundamentals and simplicity for sensible planning:

- Population: ecology and economics including the developing world.
- Hedging for a Malthusian Check.
- Agricultural technology.
- Geopolitical strategy.
- Energy research / attempts at conservation.
- Health insurance.
- Personal savings.
- Looming retirement crisis.
- Impending minimum wage spike.
- Contraction of the middle class.
- National debt.
- Hyperstagflation potential.
- Social capital.
- Sustainable business processes.

Book Chat 820 books / 1816 members / 5944 posts Welcome to Book Chat!

Instead of being about a particular book, author or genre this group is about books and reading in general. Discussions have covered a wide variety of topics, from bookmarks, to book type preference (paperback, hardcover or trade paperback) to book-to-movie tie-ins, to where and when you read and even what started you reading.

We also have some fun new projects starting and we hope you will join us.

Tenia has started a Secret Reader (aka Secret Santa) where we will exchange gently used books.

Tenia has also started a monthly book read. Our first group read will start in January and we are currently taking votes on several books that were nominated for the fiction genre.

We are also currently taking nominations for books for February and March. Our February read will be horror and our March read will be chick lit.

A discussion book raffle of sorts will be starting very soon so be sure to check back for details.

Feel free to pop-in and have a look around. We would love to have you join us for some discussion and fun.

Your admins...Kelly and Tenia

Biomimicry 64 books / 1 members / 0 posts Books about the natural word to aid design. Some books are listed as recommended reading on The Biomimicry Guild's website. (http://www.biomimicryguild.com/)

Designing User Experiences 16 books / 20 members / 1 posts Group for designers sharing an interest in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture, product design and innovation.

conservation & the environment 41 books / 35 members / 2 posts Reading material and discussion on the environment, conservation, renewable energy, oceans, forests, green living and landscape design. Join me!

Web4Roots (Web 2.0 for Grassroots Causes) 17 books / 10 members / 5 posts This is a fusion group: fusion of web2.0 and grassroots. Actually that is what web 2.0 is about. We human being have many great ideas thousands of years ago. Now it is the great chance for us to accomplish those grand missions. I have a feeling that many grassroots folks are not aware of tech breakthrough and its applications, while many web2.0 techies are not aware of various social causes that many grassroots people have been fighting for generations. Computer science is a bridge between physical science and human science. We are at the beginning of a brand new world. NYC is the culture center. If we leverage this advantage, NYC will have a chance to become the dominant center of web 2.0 development. I intend to use this meetup group to explore activities to bring people from these two trenches together, to learn from each other, and to cooperate together. So you don't need to be a tech person. If you are interested in any causes, you are welcome.

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Overview: Groups