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On choice and change


An eco-designer eyes clean tech - page 2 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

William McDonough interviewed by c|net remarks that the Chinese are likely to take solar 'to scale' and master the economics of production. He anticipates the complaint: "It's the Chinese getting all the work again" and then wonders  when Americans "will realize that for every job making a solar collector, there are four jobs deploying solar. So the Chinese will be giving us a huge gift when they drop the price of solar below the price of coal by going to scale because it will give us our own indigenous energy and massive job creation."

"the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. " There has to be a will to change.

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