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1 Cradle to Cradle- Buildings Like Trees, Cities Like Forests Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart Future of Cities Forum th September - Hamburg

2 Hier ein schönes Bild des Veranstaltungsortes (der Stadt, z.b. eine schöne Sehenswürdigkeit o.ä.) Slide 2

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4 Environmental Disasters

5 Consequences of low-quality structural steel Earthquake in Turkey on 17 th August 1999 Destruction in Izmit - homes that were built without earthquake-proof standards

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13 Indoor air pollution Source:

14 Off-Gassing Cromatogram: Carpet (synthetic fiber)

15 Off-Gassing Cromatogram: Carpet (natural fiber)

16 Off-Gassing of wallpaper

17 Are we too many? No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment, than stabilizing human population Al Gore

18 Not welcome on the planet? Are we too many? are they too many?

19 Cradle to Grave: target is zero harmfulness Resources (Materials Water Emissions Energy) Reduction Avoidance Minimization Prevention ECO-EFFICIENCY Time

20 Cradle to Cradle: target is all-encompassing quality and usefulness ECO-EFFECTIVENESS Product Quality Time

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22 Progress of quality from Cradle To Cradle with time ECO-EFFECTIVENESS ECO-EFFECTIVITY Clients & suppliers regard themselves as partners, aiming for the highest qualities

23 Triple Top Line

24 Cradle to Cradle : doing the right things! Doing things right Doing the right things!

25 Effectiveness

26 Cradle to Cradle Design Paradigm Waste equals food Nutrients are nutrients! Use current solar income Celebrate Diversity

27 Biological Metabolism Technical Metabolism

28 Biological Nutrient

29 PUMA Biological Cycle Shirts biodegradable

30 Offset-Printing innovated by gugler* and EPEA

31 AVEDA Cradle to Cradle certified cosmetic products Biological cycle Packaging Technical cycle

32 Technical Nutrient

33 Steelcase: Technical Nutrient

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35 It s a task we re proud to undertake, for the betterment of our products, our brand, the people and our planet. Stef Kranendijk former CEO

36 Steel - usage

37 Steel as technical nutrient the best material for recycling is steel, which can be maintained in technical cycles without loss of material or quality and is safe for humans and environment through its whole use cycle. Definition of all input elements for each kind of steel with all alloy elements. Inventing constructive solutions for disassembly and installing Take-Back-Systems Quality improvement of Recycled Steel (Upcycling)

38 Urban Mining: High copper content in urban grounds

39 WILLIAM MCDONOUGH: BUILDINGS LIKE TREES, CITIES LIKE FORESTS BUILDINGS LIKE TREES FORD ROUGE CENTER ADAM JOSEPH SMITH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES OBERLIN, OH Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies I Oberlin College, OH

40 Buildings like trees cities like forests

41 Saving money while boosting abundance

42 Living Roof Design XEROFLOR: RAISED FLORA

43 Herman Miller Green House Factory

44 Thoma Holz GmbH

45 Construction and Real Estate Management MANAGE employees 35 locations worldwide 40 years of experience ADVISE PLAN

46 Bionorica: Building like a tree Building: BIONORICA NEUMARKT

47 SCHÜCO Keeping materials while selling the use of services

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49 MOSA tiles: Cradle to Cradle certified

50 Tarkett Tarkett Linoleum range is awarded the Cradle to Cradle Silver Certificate Quelle: Quelle:

51 Forbo Flooring B.V. Marmoleum Walton Artoleum

52 Xella Ytong Energy+

53 Daas Baksteen: ClickBrick

54 Intersmart wall system

55 Air pollutants captured via concrete: Tiochem Nitrate monoxide from the surrounding air is being transformed into Nitrate (NO3 ) which is then being washed down by rain and serves as nutrients to the soil

56 Source: Prof. Frahm Uni Bonn Mosses for uptake and conversion of fine particulates

57 Xero flor vegetation mats Group certification: XF 300 moss-sedum blanket XF 301 moss-sedum-combi blanket XF 317 sedum blanket light XF 324 moss blanket with sedum on lavasand RAISED FLORA

58 Green facades air filter and habitat

59 Park in Hoofddorp, Netherlands Park is being jointly developed by Delta Development Groep, VolkerWessels, Reggeborgh Groep

60 Cradle to Cradle in Belgium Joke Schauvliege President of the EU's Environment Council Maxime Verhagen Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture & Innovation Herman Van Rompuy EU President The Belgian EU Presidency wants to promote the concept of sustainable materials management which covers the whole life-cycle of products in a so called Cradle to Cradle - approach

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66 Example of a Cradle to Cradle Platform

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