From ASU News: The Arizona State University Global Sustainability Solutions Center (GSSC) at Haarlemmermeer announced its first project agreement in the Netherlands on Sept. 30. GSSC will conduct research and analysis for Park 20|20, the Netherlands’ first cradle-to-cradle working environment, in order to assess the links between employee and firm productivity and the built environment. Park 20|20, [...]

Excerpt: William McDonough: Designing for Abundance Architect and author William McDonough has been rec­og­nized by Time mag­a­zine as “Hero for the Planet,” and his best-selling 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things broke ground and became a sem­i­nal guide for the sus­tain­abil­ity move­ment. His career is filled with such firsts: While a stu­dent at Yale University, he [...]

Here's an excerpt from the Earth Day piece by William McDonough and Wendy Schmidt in HuffingtonPost Green: Earth Days: Time for an ecological century? Since its debut 43 years ago, Earth Day has become the largest civic observance on the planet, celebrated by more than one billion people in 192 countries. Organized in 1970 to draw attention [...]

Excerpt: How bad is climate change? What's the best future source of energy? Why did media mogul Ted Turner and actor Ted Danson become activists? Computers built to be disassembled, highway fences that collect solar energy or carpets that clean the air. These are examples of "upcycling" that American architect William McDonough says may help save the [...]

William McDonough kicked off the release of The Upcycle with a speech at the San Domenico School on Wednesday April 17. Here is an excerpt from the Marin Independent Journal: As architect and sustainability pioneer William McDonough signed copies of his latest book, "The Upcycle," two deer strode through the grass just a few yards behind him, [...]

Excerpt: When Cradle to Cradle was introduced in 2002 it helped spur a revolution in manufacturing design, in which—in certain industries—it became unacceptable to load homes and offices with toxins, and in turn encouraged the use of safer products that are eventually broken down to become the source materials for new products. Braungart and McDonough envisioned that the reuse [...]