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To: stockman_scott who wrote (1160)	6/23/2006 2:55:31 AM
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Rank: 44 William McDonough Architect, William McDonough & Partners Why He Matters: Eco-architect McDonough has drawn up the biggest remodeling job in history: modern China. Famed for planting grass on the roof of Chicago's city hall and slicing energy costs at Herman Miller's factory in Michigan, the former dean of architecture at the University of Virginia is applying his "cradle to cradle" mantra -- the notion that everything an industry consumes and creates can be profitably composted, reused, or recycled -- to design six all-new cities in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Houses will feature rooftop farms to provide insulation and produce oxygen, solar cells will generate electricity, and sanitary systems will convert human waste into methane cooking fuel. If McDonough can bring sustainability to China, its rise as a 21st-century economic superpower will come all the more quickly -- and less painfully for the rest of us.