Managing partner David Johnson, AIA, and director of communications Kira Gould, LEED AP, Assoc. AIA, will speak at the 2013 AIA national convention in Denver. On June 21 Johnson and Gould will speak, along with NASA Ames Research Center Associate Director Steven Zornetzer and Stacy Glass, the Executive in Residence, Building Products, at the Cradle [...]

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities has a new book out, and William McDonough, Roger Schickedantz, and the Ford Rouge project are featured... The Rise of Living Architecture Commemorative Edition celebrates the contribution of more than 50 leading experts to the development of the green roof and wall industry over the past decade. Leadership profiles are drawn [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle's Leah Garchik mentioned the upcoming gala honoring William McDonough in her column on October 3-- "A shiny array of celebrities is headed here for a Nov. 14 Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute dinner at the Bently Reserve. Susan Sarandon hosts and Meryl Streep will introduce honoree Bill McDonough, an international architect [...]

Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon will headeadline the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute Gala honoring Cradle to Cradle® co-creator William McDonough in November in San Francisco. World leaders in design, innovation, technology, and manufacturing will gather on November 14 to honor McDonough and support the nonprofit sustainable growth certification organization, the Institute, which was [...]

Will you be in San Francisco for the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild Expo this November? We hope to see you there. Our founder, William McDonough, will close the conference on Friday, along with gaming expert Jane McGonigal and Scot Horst, senior VP, LEED/USGBC. Bill will have special guests with him (we'll announce these soon!) and [...]

And it's still being reviewed. Here's a new online review of the book... see the link here. And here's an excerpt: If you're one of those who like to imagine elegant solutions to the world's ills, especially when they transcend or obliterate old dichotomies, you'll love William McDonough and Michael Braungart's "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way [...]

William McDonough recently visited Dartmouth, where he completed his undergaduate studies in 1973. He spoke to students, and the remarks were covered in the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science. Here's an excerpt-- Dartmouth alumnus William McDonough (’73) spoke last Friday about his work in environmentally sustainable architecture and design. McDonough believes in the power of creative [...]

William McDonough and several members of the William McDonough + Partners, MBDC, and McDonough Advisors staff will be at Greenbuild and Verge@Greenbuild this year in San Francisco, during the week of November 12. The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute will also have a big presence. The USGBC annual event is slated to be the [...]

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute will honor William McDonough on November 14th, 2012 at the spectacular Bently Reserve in San Francisco, in a star-studded gala reception to celebrate McDonough’s game-changing contributions to the green building and green building products revolution. Opinion leaders from the worlds of innovation, technology, design, science, politics and [...]

Two of our projects at Delta Development's Park 20|20, the Netherlands' first Cradle to Cradle®-inspired development have received awards in recent weeks: Congratulations to D/Dock Amsterdam, our interior design collaborators on the B/S/H/ Inspiration House, for their recent "Design Is…" award! You can learn more about this award at this link. Fox Vakanties, just next door to B/S/H/, [...]

David Johnson will be a featured speaker in UC Berkeley's Colloquium: Design for Sustainability, organized by Professor Gail Brager. These are open to students and others and are free. 12noon - 1pm in Room 112 of Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. He will talk about Cradle to Cradle thinking and the current architecture [...]

Congratulations to our sister company. MBDC's Jay Bolus is quoted in an intriguing story about new efforts by manufacturers to experiment with waterless dyeing techniques. Here's an excerpt-- ' Most athletic clothes are made of polyester, which requires 100 to 150 liters of water per kilogram of fabric to saturate with color, according to an industry [...]