Zero Design From: George Mokray Subject: This is an article I've written for possible inclusion in a new book called Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World edited by Arthur Shostak (Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 2003 at press). It is intended for first year sociology students. Zero Design What would it be like to live in a zero waste/zero emission world? Just as a thought experiment. Can you imagine an industrial system where all waste is eliminated through recycling and reuse and exemplary design from the very beginning, where what was previously thrown away becomes a feedstock for new products? As in waste equals food. If we want zero waste and emissions, then maybe waste should become food. Perhaps this would work like the worms I keep in my kitchen. For nearly 25 years, my vegetable sc