The San Francisco Chronicle covered the November 14 Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute gala... here's an excerpt: About 450 guests from the business and entertainment worlds attended the fundraiser, which featured Susan Sarandon as emcee, a short concert by "Twilight" actor Mia Maestro, and several videos in which activists and business leaders extolled McDonough's virtues, [...]

Did you miss the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild Expo this year, or miss out on a few of the speakers? You can now find videos from some of the key presentations online at this linke. William McDonough had a strong presence at Greenbuild 2012, as we've noted in this space. His Master Series: Performance, Outcome, [...]

A recent Urban Land story about green offices completed in the last five years features one of the latest Park 20|20 features; here's an excerpt... Since the economic downturn hit in 2008, the pace of office building construction has slowed considerably, which translates to fewer new buildings that exemplify cutting-edge sustainable design. But while many [...]

Yerdle is the brainchild of Adam Werbach, chairman of consulting and communications firm Saatchi & Saatchi S. (as well as a former 23-year-old president of the Sierra Club), and Andy Ruben, formerly the chief sustainability officer at Walmart. Our founder, William McDonough, supports the Yerdle concept, which is dedicated to helping people think about how [...]

As we've reported in this space previously, our founder shared the stage for a keynote panel at VERGE@Greenbuild on November 13; he spoke about the future of cities and sustainable growth trends for buildings and infrastructure with Greenbiz's Joel Makower, Recology's Mike SanGiacomo, and Cherokee Investment's Tom Darden. That same day, he sat down for a [...]

Here's an excerpt from the Stanford News, November 15: .... Now the man who has been called the leading environmental architect of our time will be donating his extensive archive and professional papers to Stanford University Libraries. Roberto Trujillo, head of the libraries' Special Collections, hailed McDonough's partnership with Stanford as a new kind of "living archive": [...]

Sven Eberlein authored a piece for YES! magazine, posted November 19: From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges: Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research. Here's [...]

Here's an excerpt from the University's report on the November 1 event: Sustainability thought-leaders William McDonough and Andrew Winston delivered keynote speeches on the pending challenges and opportunities facing 21st-century business at the sixth-annual Sustainability Symposium at Duquesne University. Around 150 executives, academics and students gathered on campus Thursday, Nov. 1, for this year's event, titled "100 [...]

Building.com's Environmental Building News reports from Greenbuild. Here's an excerpt: The long-anticipated third version of the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) green product standard will add a new certification level and make energy and water requirements more stringent—at the same time loosening ingredient disclosure requirements—for entry-level certification. Control of the standard has also been transferred to the [...]

John King spent some time with our founder, at our San Francisco studio, and at the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay construction site (a project we designed with Stantec) during the busy Greenbuild week, and told some the story of this "green pioneer" and his architecture work in the San Francisco Chronicle on November [...]

Our founder is quoted in a recent Entrepreneur.com article: "Upcycling Becomes a Treasure Trove for Green Business Ideas: Forget recycling. Reusing materials discarded in the manufacturing process is a growing force behind a fresh new industry." Some excerpts-- If you're not up on the green lingo, the best way to think of upcycling is that it's like [...]

Congratulations to University of California San Francisco Medical Center leaders. The American Institute of Architects California Council has honored UCSF Medical Center & UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with a Client Achievement Honor Award. We are so proud to have had a chance to work with UCSF on the design of these facilities, which are now [...]