Congratulations to our sister enterprise, MBDC, whose client, MechoSystems, had a busy show at NeoCon this month in Chicago. Interior Design reports from NeoCon 2011-- "At NeoCon 2011, MechoSystems introduced the design community to a number of new initiatives-including a new name. The company, founded in 1969, changed its name from MechoShade to MechoSystems to signal a [...]

William McDonough will deliver the Dwell on Design keynote on June 24 in Los Angeles. In anticipation, Dwell magazine is featuring a Q&A with Bill and writer Alissa Walker that begins this way-- Next year, William McDonough's revolutionary book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, which he co-authored with Dr. Michael Braungart, will turn [...]

Recently, we announced more media coverage for NASA Sustainability base, and now Architectural Record online has picked up that story, too. This latest article quotes Steven Zornetzer, Associate Center Director for Institution and Research at NASA Ames Research Center-- "Buildings of the future could actually produce more energy than they use and reverse the trend of [...]

We are thrilled to be working with the Dawood Foundation on the Karachi School for Business & Leadership in Pakistan. This newly established business school in Pakistan takes ethics as a generating theme for the educational curriculum. Consequently, the building was designed to reinforce the idea of integration between the human and natural environment; embodying [...]

We are pleased to announce that Fox Vakanties has broken ground at Delta Development Group's Park 20|20 in Beukenhorst Zuid, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. It's a great honor to be working with Delta Develoment Group at this site; their vision for a Cradle to Cradle development is powerful--and it's becoming a reality. Occupying a prominent site at [...]

Bill McDonough was in Washington this week as the U.S. Postal Service launched their GoGreen postage stamps (which are Cradle to Cradle Certified as part of their ongoing sustainability program. From the USPS press release: The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Go Green stamps took place at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School and adjoining [...]