We at William McDonough + Partners are pleased to offer congratulations to our NASA Ames client: The NASA Sustainability Base, which is nearing completion now, is being considered for the White House GreenGov award and has asked NASA to provide material about the project for inclusion in its Action Success Stories. As Michelle Moore writes on [...]

Chrissy Coughlin hosts a radio show called "The Nature of Business" and recently interviewed Bill McDonough about Cradle to Cradle and its promise for the business community. McDonough, through his innovations, continues his mission to determine what is the right thing to do and then to do it as efficiently as possible because as he puts [...]

Congratulations to Bill Birchard on his forthcoming book, Merchants of Virtue, which tells the story of Herman Miller, a company that has always been an innovator and a leader. We're proud to have worked with Herman Miller and we celebrate their story and their commitment to Cradle to Cradle® design. An excerpt about the book-- "Starting in [...]

We are so pleased 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; [...]

Here's an excerpt from a new blog Q&A by Joanne Furio with Dr. Michael Braungart, the German chemist who co-created Cradle to Cradle with William McDonough. "Eco-effective products and their processes should not only “do no harm,” but actually benefit the environment, people and the economy. That uncompromising design philosophy was outlined by Michael Braungart, the [...]

Jay Bolus is a leader at MBDC, and a frequent collaborator with our William McDonough + Partner design teams. After recently attending NeoCon, here's an excerpt from his Greenbiz.com post about "Why Green Marketing Should Go Beyond Description by Omission"-- I recently returned from NeoCon, North America’s largest design exposition and conference for commercial interiors. While [...]

We'll be at Greenbuild this year, will you? We are delighted that David Johnson will be moderating and presenting at a panel called implementing Next Generation Cradle to Cradle: Policy & Practice. This will be a discussion about real-time demonstrations of Cradle to Cradle design realized at the scale of architecture and community design. We [...]

We are delighted to announce that their project, the NASA Sustainability Base has been nominated for a 2011 Katerva Award. The Katerva Awards are an annual set of awards for the very best sustainability initiatives on the planet. NASA’s new Sustainability Base, which William McDonough + Partners designed with AECOM and Loisos+Ubbelohde and is being [...]

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 [...]

Greenbiz.com recently posted a piece about the highly successful collaboration between MBDC and EPEA and home cleaning products maker, Method. Here's the first part of the post-- "Method recently had an exceedingly rare joint visit from Michael Braungart and Bill McDonough, the co-authors of Cradle-to-Cradle and principals of MBDC. In the green design world, this is [...]

On June 24 in Los Angeles, Bill McDonough will deliver a keynote address at Dwell magazine's Dwell on Design conference. The lecture is called Cradle to Cradle and the Future of Dwelling and will include discussion of several of McDonough's recent architectural initiatives, including NASA Sustainability Base, the new Ferrer office/lab building designed for Barcelona, the [...]

On June 9, Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart, the co-creators of the Cradle to Cradle design framework, appeared together in California for the first time in several years. They engaged in an on-stage dialogue as part of an event designed to celebrate the achievements of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, which the pair [...]