China Planning For Sustainable Cities

TapeCutter writes "In a BBC article William McDonough says, 'The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.' The Chineese appear to agree with him and have commissioned McDonough's company to create an environmentally sustainable village as a pilot project for the more ambitious idea of sustainable cities. McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart have also written a book on the subject, Cradle to Cradle, previously reviewed here on Slashdot."

Comments

Sustainable cities?

[kc32]

You mean like the ones the Greeks had over 2000 years ago?

Re:Sustainable cities?

[ozmanjusri]

The solution is to come up for somthing that does to people what Calicivirus did for rabbits. I think the Australians are working on it.

We call him "Steve Irwin".

"The affected rabbits show symptoms of depression, sadness, anorexia dysnea, incoordination, crying, shaking and other nervous signs just before they die."

Re:Sustainable cities?

[lisaparratt]

It turns them into goths?! :S

Re:Living

[Anonymous Coward]

As a bank robber, I take offense. I much prefer well-crafted wines to crude street drugs.

Re:Boil water first...

[jag2k]

Did you shower in bottled water too?

Ages

[Boronx]

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones.

No, but the Age of Democracy might.

Re:Peak Oil

[llZENll]

Is replacing oil with biofuel even sustainable? I guess the market will work itself out, its not like we have a choice either, oil will be gone, its only a matter of time.

Actually the worlds oil supply running out is probably the best thing that could ever happen for the US, we have the best and biggest country in the world for producing corn. I'm glad GWBs plan to use up all the oil in the world as fast as possible it running so smoothly ;)

Once we become the worlds biggest grower and seller of biofuel in the world our national debt will be gone in a few years, wow realizing the future of our nation in one post, is there anything biofuel can't do?

Re:IP Laws will keep the idea from gaining tractio

[Anonymous Coward]

I see someone is still pissed off because no one will pay for the code they wirte.

Re:Peak Oil

[Sir_Real]

I guess China is preparing for the peak oil event. We should be doing that same in North America.

We'll get to it. Right after we're done converting to metric.

Re:Those crafty "Chineese"

[Subrafta]

Stop pulling my Chan...

Re:Stone age?

[mooingyak]

The "wood" age starts at around 12 or 13 and can last indefinitly thanks to viagra.

Re:The most important step:

[Chris Burke]

Then who was it who told me to kill my family?

Damnit...

Re:The most important step:

[YHWH]

That was me, I was just testing your loyalty to me. Had you gone through with it, a goat would have appeared just before you actually killed them. It would then be your job to kill the goat. I don't know why, but a dead goat really floats my boat. If you'll excuse the rhyme and get my drift.

Re:Peak Oil

[Cro Magnon]

I couldn't get to that site. Either it's been slashdotted, or it ran out of oil.