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The following a links related to media and activity around the speakers Ray Anderson, Michael Braungart, Janine Benyus, Alex Steffen and Lee Weinstein coming out to the Better By Design Summit 1st Sept 08 - http://www.betterbydesign.org.nz/ceosummit

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Please feel free to add any links to media you come across

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8/22/2008 10:06:00National Radio- Radio NZFeatured Guest - Janine Benyushttp://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20080822-1006-Feature_Guest_-_Janine_Benyus-048.mp3 What can we learn from nature? Janine Benyus talks about how the lessons that nature has learnt over 4 billion years can be applied to human activity. www.betterbydesign.org.nz

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8/28/2008ScoopIntegrating sustainability into business decisionshttp://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00447.htmEnvironment Minister Trevor Mallard's speech to Business Breakfast on sustainable design and sustainable business with Michael Braungart, hosted by Ministry for the Environment.

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2-4pm 8/30/2008Intersect, NexusRe-designing our Future - A public forum with Michael Braungarthttp://intersect.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2072671:Event:8222Michael will open our minds with a presentation, after which the panel of diverse young people will reflect on what he has shared and pose questions, both of him, of our industry and our country. Following that, reflections and questions will be invited from the floor, addressed to those on the panel.

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2/9/2008Radio NZMichael Braungart : design beyond sustainability (Audio - duration: 35′36″)http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080830-0905-Michael_Braungart_design_beyond_sustainability-048.mp3Dr Michael Braungart is Professor of Process Engineering at Universitat Luneburg in Germany, and is one of the principals at McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry. He has initiated worldwide scholarly and scientific inquiry into the adverse environmental and physiological impacts of industrially-produced consumer goods, and co-authored the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Michael Braungart is a keynote speaker at the Better By Design CEO Summit in Auckland on 1 September.

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2/9/2008NZ HeraldNZ Herald Article of Michael Braungart "Consigning waste to dustbin of history" http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10530086When his friend, photographer Fernando Pereira, died on board Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior 23 years ago, Michael Braungart vowed never to return to New Zealand. But the former Greenpeace activist has come back - intent on spreading his take on the way the next industrial revolution should run.

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2/9/2008TV3"Business and sustainability under spotlight in summit"http://www.3news.co.nz/News/BusinessNews/Businessandsustainabilityunderspotlightinsummit/tabid/421/articleID/69555/cat/53/Default.aspxThe Better by Design summit continues in Auckland today, with its focus on sustainability. Keynote speaker Prof Dr Michael Braungart is famous for his book 'Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things" which is considered a must read about business and sustainability.

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31/8/2008IdealogCradle-manhttp://idealog.co.nz/ecoinnovator/blog/cradle-manOn Friday I interviewed Micahel Braungart, the German half of the team that conceived of Cradle-to-Cradle, a book and a design philosophy that is taking sustainability to another level of complexity and challenge. He’s downunder to speak at today’s Better By Design sustainability forum.

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31/8/2008Blog: Computing for sustainabilityBlog Post: Michael Braungart bumper stickershttp://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/michael-braungart-bumper-stickers/Michael Braungart is in NZ for the Better-by-Design CEO summit. He was in an interview with Kim Hill on Saturday (audio from RNZ). Kim did a fabulous job and the interview was highly entertaining. Braungart must face a lot of inane questions from other interviewers, at the end of the interview he thanked her her for the quality of the questioning. He also managed a great line of humility, bravado and humour (questioning the sustainability of her relationships completely floored Kim).

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1/9/2008Science Media CentreHEADS-UP: Sustainability is boringhttp://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SMC.woa/1/wa/SMCPubDirectAction/articleView?smcChCd=ALL&smcArtCod=A1U75tY5kKSNzoONLcemjVr0sE7MjFeHIn this amusing essay Dr Braungart asks whether the current focus on sustainability is boring and unpicks some of the common perceptions about the issues the world faces in adapting for a more sustainable future.

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30/8/2008Transition Towns siteTransition Towns C2C Discussionhttp://groups.google.com/group/nztt/browse_thread/thread/bba82d47c99f2e7f/bebfb20bdd0d4c11?show_docid=bebfb20bdd0d4c11

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Radio NZ: Our Changing WorldMichael Braungart (Audio - duration: 12′31″)http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0006/1719834/ocw-20080904-2134-Michael_Braungart-wmbr.asx Michael Braungart explains the Cradle to Cradle concept of product design.

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Radio NZ: AfternoonsEnvironment Story - Eliminating Waste (Audio - duration: 12′50″)http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0005/1715324/aft-20080901-1547-Environment_Story_-_Eliminating_Waste-m048.asx What if instead of minimising waste, consumers and companies set out to eliminate the whole concept of waste?

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30/8/2008KaitiakitangaMichael Braungart- Redesigning Our Future - Public Youth Forums- Sat 30 August- Event Info and Video download (130min, 230MB)http://www.kaitiakitanga.net/projects/3-2-3d%20Redesigning%20our%20Future%20-%20Youth%20Forum.htmThis event was hosted by NEXUS the University of Auckland Student Sustainability Group and held in an AUT venue on Sat 30th August. Michael was welcomed to Aotearoa with a Powhiri (formal Maori welcome) by SPIES - South Pacific Indigenous Engineering Students. Te Kipa Kepa Morgan, Associate Dean Maori, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland explained the ceremony and went on to highlight some key Maori concepts and practices around Sustainability; particularly Kaitiakitanga, Mauri and timeframes. This set the scene for Michael's presentation (COMING see www.nexusnz.org for a full report). A diverse panel of young people from local Universities, INTERSECT the young professionals group , Enviroschools were on stage with Michael to reflect and question. A good crowd of people stayed on with Michael for a further (third) entrancing hour to reflect on how NZ could become a cradle to cradle nation. Thank you Michael for what you shared!!! Much more information at www.braungart.com

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1/9/2008Better By DesignMichael Braungart's Better By Design Presentation videohttp://www.betterbydesign.org.nz/news-and-resources/audio-video-library/watch-video?objId=88ecc53f-d91f-4c83-a3f9-34b5dc0e3d6fAs co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Prof Dr Michael Braungart has established a framework for the next Industrial Revolution. Prof Braungart makes the case that businesses can be transformed through intelligent design for “triple top line” results. Instead of trying to be less bad, Cradle to Cradle asks how to do the most good.

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9/2008NZ Management MagazineCover Story : Chasing Clean Billions – Sustainable + profitable (with comments from Braungart, Benyus and Andersonhttp://www.management.co.nz/Editorial.asp?eID=32470&Wcat=0When it comes to building business that is better fitted for a carbon-constrained world, Michael Braungart – German scientist, consultant and co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things – advocates “eco-effectiveness” over “eco-efficiency”. And while that may sound like so much semantic quibbling, it really turns current notions of sustain­ability inside out – from a focus on minimising environmental harm to one of optimising environmental benefit.