This week, William McDonough is a delegate to the Jefferson Innovation Summit, hosted at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in Charlottesville. The Summit was designed to bring together the brightest minds in business, government, academia, media, and the arts to talk about creating and sustaining a society of entrepreneurs and innovators. CNBC's [...]

We are pleased to announce that we have launched a product design initiative that includes consumer products, building products, and much more. Bill McDonough has, in the past, worked with such companies as Shaw Industries, MechoSystems, and DesignTex to design product lines, and now this effort is being expanded. We’ll have more to share [...]

Last month, William McDonough served as lead juror for the Dutch PostCode Lottery's prestigious Green Challenge competition, which is designed to support inventors of sustainability-focused ideas and technologies. People from around the world enter their innovations, and finalists come to Amsterdam, where they get professional advice on how to shape and communicate their innovations. The [...]

Bill McDonough is chairing the jury, and today the finalists in the Dutch Postcode Lottery Green Challenge were announced. The 2011 finalists and their projects are-- Svante Bengtsson: Rehact Marjolein Helder: Plant-e Eden Full: SunSaluter Nick Christy: Water Recycling Shower Peter van Dommele: 4-D Chameleon Andreas Zachariah: Carbon Diem Learn more on the Green Challengeweb site, which includes links to how you [...]

Bill McDonough will be serving as the honorary chair juror for the Netherlands Postcode Lottery GREEN CHALLENGE competition. He is joined by Liesbeth van Tongeren (Former director of Greenpeace Netherlands, MP for the Dutch Green Left party), Marty Pickett (Executive Director & General Counsel of Rocky Mountain Institute), Marieke van Schaik (Managing Director Dutch [...]

The NASA Sustainability Base, the new 50,000-sf office building that is nearing completion on the Ames Research Center campus at Moffett Field, continues to attract attention and generate buzz. The latest is literally buzz: Silicon Valley Buzz features an interview with Steve Zornetzer, the Associate Center Director at NASA Ames. Sustainability Base, is designed to [...]

We are delighted to note that the Bullitt Foundation has broken ground on a new facility in Seattle. We celebrate this design, by the Miller Hull Partnership. CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, Denis Hayes, has set the bar high and his new building will join the ranks of other energy-positive, water-cleansing facilities--buildings, we like to [...]

We're so excited to see the BSH office building, the the first building designed for Park 20|20, coming together. This will be the future home to five of the top brands in household appliances – Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, Neff and Solitaire. Designed as a flexible, innovative workplace, BSH includes a full-height atrium and showrooms that can [...]

We are delighted to be working with the dynamic Dean of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership and his team on their new facilities, the first of which are under construction now. We are delighted to see this interview with Dean Bob Wheeler in the online edition of the International Herald Tribune. Here's an excerpt-- The Dean [...]

Fast Company magazine has published a list of the eight more inspiring green building projects on the horizon and a current Willliam McDonough + Partners project is on the list: NASA Sustainability Base. Here's what they write: "NASA's Sustainability Base, part of the Ames Research Center in Moffett, Calif., might just be the federal government's most sustainable [...]

At a webcast on August 24, leading speakers will explore whether manufacturers' RoHS/REACH efforts become a cornerstone for a Cradle to Cradle® strategy. Manufacturers are under increasing pressure from consumers, NGOs and industry to remove chemicals and materials from their products that are considered hazardous and to create products that are sustainable. Governments are in turn [...]

We're happy to announce that Bill McDonough will be a delegate at the Jefferson Innovation Summit on October 11-12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Summit is hosted by the Batten Institute of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and developed in partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and CNBC. This invitation-only event brings together [...]