In a recent Huffington Post, Karin Kloosterman calls out Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things as one of her top five green books for the holidays. She writes: "This book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart published in 2002 is so critical to understanding sustainability in America that you'll be lost if you [...]

Congratulations to our client, NASA Ames Research Center, especially Pete Worden and Steve Zornetzer, and their teams who have brought the vision for Sustainability Base to reality. The Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership announced the winners of the second annual CEIL Awards. The awards recognize military and federal, teams and programs that have demonstrated [...]

On December 14, the Cradle to Cradle inspired Park 20|20 development in Amsterdam, will celebrate the groundbreaking of the FIFPro House. As the worldwide representative union for all professional soccer players, FIFPro’s global reach and the cultural diversity of its members have inspired the dynamic design for a new headquarters building located at Park 20|20 [...]

LESSONS LEARNED, Volume 7, was published this fall and distributed at the USGBC's annual Greenbuild conference. A feature article in the book, is "NASA Sustainability Base: Proving the Power of the Positive," which covers this new project, which was under construction at the time of this story. Here's an excerpt: Once in a while, collaboration between a [...]

William McDonough + Partners is pleased to announce the grand opening of the new Bosch Siemens HOME (B/S/H) office building—The Inspiration House—which is part of Delta Development’s Park 20|20 in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, the country’s first Cradle to Cradle®-inspired development. Cradle to Cradle is a positive approach to design based on nature’s principles that [...]

NASA is one of six recently announced 2011 GreenGov Presidential Award winners. The awards celebrate extraordinary achievement in the pursuit of President Obama’s Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance. In 2009, President Obama challenged the Federal Government to lead by example by becoming leaner, greener and more efficient. He asked agencies [...]

We're so pleased that Environmental Design + Construction is showcasing a recent William McDonough + Partners project in this feature article authored by our own Katherine Grove, AIA. Here's an excerpt: How can a building project on a Washington, D.C., college campus embody the values of global peace and social justice embraced by those who work, learn [...]

Here's an excerpt from this article from The Atlantic: An associate professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University, Edward Orlowski teaches what he once practiced with Luckenbach | Ziegelman as a licensed architect in the state of Michigan. In addition to his work at LTU, Orlowski serves as a member of the U.S. Green Building Council [...]

An excerpt: Humanity has reached a new milestone as we hit 7 billion. Never before have there been 7 billion people on planet earth, all at the same time. As we welcome the 7th billion global inhabitant, we also acknowledge the challenges we will face due to a burgeoning population explosion, resource depletion, food and water [...]

William McDonough attended the Rio Summit in 1992, and next year will be the Rio+20 Summit... as well as the 20th anniversary of the writing of the Hannover Principles. These principles have guided the sustainability movement in many ways, and we'll be celebrating them in a variety of ways. Stay tuned... [...]

In 1992, William McDonough represented architects and the American Institute of Architects at the Rio Earth Summit, at which Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration were signed. At that time, McDonough and Michael Braungart wrote the Hannover Principles (published in book form the next year), to be presented at the Hannover World Expo in 2000. Learn [...]

ENR California has announced the 34 winners of the 2011 Best Projects awards. For the first time, projects this year were also submitted from Washington, Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska to ENR California’s competition. Judges picked a top winner in each category, along with Award of Merit winners in many of the categories. More information about each of [...]