Cradle to Cradle | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

William McDonough - This architect grows up in Japan, where there is much beauty as well as intelligent design and use of scarce resources.

Michael Braungart - This chemist becomes the director of the German Environmental Protection Agency and studies how other cultures wisely recycle materials.

The Director of Ciba-Geigy - This person listens compassionately to a protester's ideas and suggests that the protester work for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Thomas Malthus - This is an 18th-century writer who predicts population overgrowth and industrial disasters.

Rachel Carson - This is the author of...
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