Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things.

Cradle-to-Cradle is a new housing competition aims at turning ideas of sustainability into reality. Designs of C2C will lead to actual construction with the goal of achieving the new standards of sustainability set up in Cradle to Cradle: Remarking the Way we Make Things.
The honor of the first cradle-to-cradle house is given to the architects from a Seattle-based team led by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum who are passed over in favor of a design that would be more economically viable.
"The result is a house that conjures images of mom and apple pie, backyard barbecues and front porch swings. There is nothing about this house that says 'gray water treatment happens here'" says the author Allison Milionis, and that's exactly the point, according to Gregg Lewis, the C2C Home organizer "We want to show that a green home doesn't need to cost more or look different from its neighbors," he says in the article.
For more about the C2C competition: http://www.c2c-home.org/#

Jin Yanni

(Resource: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/first_cradletoc.php)