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Climate One TV films at NASA Sustainability Base

David Johnson, partner at William McDonough + Partners, joined our client, Steve Zornetzer, Associate Director for Institution and Research at NASA Ames Research Center, for a tour of the under-construction NASA Sustainability Base today with Climate One TV, which will include the footage in upcoming broadcasts. NASA Sustainability Base is an important new project; we are [...]

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William McDonough and Michael Braungart on the factory of the future

Seen and heard in November: An EU meeting on the Factory of the Future. During this well attended seminar Michael Braungart, cofounder of the Cradle to Cradle principles, introduced the attendees to concrete industrial projects in Europe and made them familiar with all of the C2C aspects this type of industry had to deal with. William [...]

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Katherine Grove a featured speaker at EcoBuild

Katherine Grove, a director at William McDonough + Partners, spoke on December 7 at Ecobuild in Washington DC on the topic of "Cradle to Cradle as a Framework for Design." Joining her at the podium was Richard Maimon of Kieran Timberlake. They spoke about Make It Right, the Lower 9th Ward redevelopment effort in [...]

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ASLA opens calls for entry; Diane Dale will be juror for national student awards program

ASLA has released its 2011 professional and student awards call for entries. Award recipients receive featured coverage in the October issue of Landscape Architecture magazine and in many other design and construction industry and general-interest media. Award recipients, their clients, and student advisors will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA Annual [...]

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William McDonough featured in New York Times

Sunday, November 28th's edition of The New York Times included a "The Boss" column profiling William McDonough. This profile offers some thoughts from our founder about some of his early experiences that made him who he is and shaped his views about how humans relate to our place, including some formative moments that wound up shaping [...]

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Check out this video interview of William McDonough at the Governor’s Global Climate Summit

Last week, William McDonough spent two days with Governor Schwarzenegger and dozens of subnational leaders from all over the world to talk about moving towards clean energy and a green economy, among other things. You can see the Hub Culture video interview with McDonough on site at UC Davis, which hosted the third and final [...]

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New video out following the Oberlin 10 Year celebration

In October, Bill McDonough went to Oberlin to celebration the 10 year anniversary of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies-- one of the earliest test cases of Bill and the firm's ideas about "a building like a tree." Now, the Center has released a video about the project. It really captures what a [...]

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Bill McDonough spoke today at Governor’s Global Climate Summit 3

Today is the first day of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's third Governor's Global Climate Summit, being hosted at UC Davis. Bill McDonough kicked off this afternoon's Race to Green Action panel with a keynote speech: "Renewably Powering the World: A Cradle to Cradle Vision." This is a two-day summit that includes several governors and many other [...]

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David Johnson to attend GreenGov Supply Chain Summit in Chicago

Next Tuesday, David Johnson will attend the GreenGov Supply Chain Summit, hosted by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the GSA in Chicago. The GreenGov Supply Chain Summit will convene Administration officials, executives from leading corporations and small businesses, and leaders from the nonprofit and state and local government communities to discuss how [...]

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Bill McDonough and the architecture firm featured in Western Art & Architecture story

You can see the full article here. And here's an excerpt-- In the mid-1980s, architect William McDonough was commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund to build a headquarters in New York whose construction materials were to be as non-toxic as technology would allow and whose signature traits would include energy efficiency. The 20,000-square-foot was a watershed [...]

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Bill McDonough to speak at Governors’ Global Climate Summit in California

Our founder will be kicking off the "Race to Action" session at Governor Schwarzenegger's third Governors' Global Climate Summit, which will be held at UC Davis. You can see the schedule of events here. Here's the approach-- The GGCS 3 promises compelling climate conversations from the top leaders of local, regional, national and international entities, as well [...]

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Cradle to Cradle mentioned in New York Times story about upcycling

A New York Times story about upcycling cites the Cradle to Cradle framework as developed by our founder, William McDonough, with Michael Braungart. Here's an excerpt: This is part of a broader effort to reduce waste by planning for a product’s potential recycling or reuse at the end of its life before it is even made, [...]

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