William McDonough
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"William Andrews McDonough" is an American designer, advisor, author, and thought leader. McDonough is founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) with German chemist Michael Braungart as well as co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance, also with Braungart. McDonough's career is focused on creating a beneficial footprint. He espouses a message that we can design materials, systems, companies, products, buildings, and communities that continuously improve over time.

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Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!

This dovetails nicely with what we're doing. Our role is to help Wal-Mart workers get a voice on the job.

It was an easy dunk for the commission to decide that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy (Gordon English) were just way off base.

All have met stringent environmental and human health standards in product design achievement.

There are data saying that the economy is starting to recover, and there are data saying that it tends to be weak.

I don't think there's any likelihood in the world that he will reject the list.

If you depart from those expectations -- that is, if you break the rules, if you ignore the spirit of the law even while meeting the letter -- woe be unto you. There will be consequences, and they will be grave.

I'm rather pleased, to put it mildly.

When we think the economic recovery is much more clear and certain than it is now, we will have time to do what is necessary.