By Joel Makower Published April 15, 2013 Excerpt from GreenBiz.com: This week marks the publication of The Upcycle:Beyond Sustainability — Designing for Abundance, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. It’s their first book since their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, a bestseller that helped change the conversation about designing and manufacturing, envisioning a closed-loop system where every [...]

We’re delighted to announce that William McDonough spoke with KQED’s Michael Krasny for the 10am Pacific hour of Thursday April 18’s show. He talked about the new book, co-authored by McDonough with Michael Braungart during a week of events in the Bay Area. Listen to an archive of the broadcast here. [...]

Here's an excerpt-- You are the subject of Stanford University's first living archive. What does that involve? Most of my meetings and speeches are being filmed and phone conversations recorded. They are dated and archived along with tweets and emails, as well as physical drawings and records. We are trying to design the process so that my [...]

From Scientific American-- Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? William McDonough and Michael Braungart suggest moving beyond sustainability and into practical design that can result in energy abundance by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Excerpted from The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Copyright © April 16, 2013, North Point [...]

NASA’s Ames Research Center recently was recognized for its exemplary sustainable business practices by one of San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest and most prestigious environmental non-profits, Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet. Ames received the 2013 Business Environmental Award in the category of ‘Sustainable Built Environment’ for its high-performing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) [...]

The New York Times's David Streitfeld wrote about the Stanford University Libraries' Living Archive collaboration with William McDonough, in a piece titled "The Era of Deep Archiving Begins." Here's an excerpt: As a Dartmouth student in the early 1970s, William McDonough went, somewhat casually, to hear a lecture by a visiting celebrity. Mr. McDonough had little idea [...]