Did you miss William McDonough’s “Deep Dive” at West Coast Green last fall? You can get a sneak peek here. We have posted a few story snippets to YouTube, from the classic to the rarely heard. Here's Bill talking about Thomas Jefferson, inspired by his time as Dean at the Univerisity of Virginia's School of [...]

Last week, David Johnson presented NASA Sustainability Base with AECOM's June Grant at the Autodesk Sustainability Summit in San Francisco. You can see the video of Dave and June's presentation on YouTube here. This project, which is currently under construction at NASA's Ames Research Center, has been an amazing collaboration, which included large teams from William McDonough [...]

NASA Sustainability Base, which is under construction, has been featured in USA Today. The article includes quotes from NASA'S Steve Zornetzer and William McDonough + Partners' David Johnson. Find the full article here.

It was Stewart Brand who wrote: "A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start." It's hard not to think about Stewart Brand's book How Buildings Learn when you think about the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin--a project that our client David Orr always knew would learn and adapt over [...]

Co-chairs of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Taskforce posted a Fast Company blog about the group's event and discussion of Cradle to Cradle and business innovation. Here's an excerpt: "From our conversations at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this year, it's clear that sustainability has moved right to the heart of business [...]

Congratulations to EPEA on the Cradle to Cradle Festival in Berlin, celebrating Cradle to Cradle® as a cultural revolution. It started on January 26 and will run through March 16. Under the banner "Blueprint Netherlands," the Festival will celebrate the success of Cradle to Cradle worldwide and honour the Netherlands as a prime example to [...]

Our client, NASA, is featured on Plum TV's Masters of Innovation series, in a show called "Space Age Green." This includes coverage of Sustainability Base, the new office facility at NASA's Ames Research Center. The project is under construction now and will be occupied late this spring. The show includes an interview with Steve Zornetzer [...]

As the NASA Sustainability Base nears completion, it continues to garner attention from the media. The latest is a story in Fast Company, which grew out of this week's Autodesk Sustainability Summit, at which David Johnson presented the project with AECOM's June Grant. You can read the article online here. William McDonough + Partners was design [...]

In September, Bill McDonough spoke to a sold-out audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, as part of the Climate One series, which is led by Greg Dalton. Climate One has recently produced a new trailer video about their mission and their speakers, and Bill's speech is excerpted there. See the video here. And in another Climate [...]

William McDonough will join Michael Braungart at the Cradle to Cradle Festival in Berlin, a celebration of Cradle to Cradle as a cultural revolution and highlight the application of Cradle to Cradle in the Netherlands. March 9 and 10 are designated as "McDonough Days," when Bill McDonough will attend the conference. March 9, there will [...]

This week is the World Economic Forum in Davos, and our founder, William McDonough, is in town to be part of the dynamic conversations about innovation and business models of the future that always surround this event. This year, he is honored to be a featured speaker to a group of young business leaders; among [...]

Our director of communications, Kira Gould, spent Wednesday in Las Vegas, where she was a juror (with Zem Joaquin, Sarah Backhouse, and Shashi Caan) in the One Good Chair competition, which is produced and organized by the Sustainable Furnishings Council and the Las Vegas Market. Congratulations to Eric Tong, the young designer from London, who [...]