We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature's life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.
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We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.