Tish Tablan from MBDC will be presenting "Cradle to Cradle: An Approach for Evaluating Building Products for Human and Environmental Health". The free webinar is hosted by Construction Specifications Institute's Sustainable Practice Group.

During his plenary presentation last night at the SB '13 conference, William McDonough announced a new partnership between McDonough Innovation and Waste Management, Inc — North America's largest environmental solutions provider and residential recycler. The collaboration will help foster and guide future product and packaging design innovation among industry-leading companies. [...]

Cradle to cradle designer William McDonough tells Jo Confino how a new partnership linking design to dumpster contents will help eradicate waste

Waste Management and McDonough Innovation form initiative to address waste impact of consumer goods

Playworld Systems, a leading manufacturer of imaginative playground and fitness equipment, is committed to measurably reducing its impact on the environment. The company’s aggressive action to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) helped Playworld Systems become the first and only playground manufacturer to have its products Cradle to Cradle Certified Silver. [...]

William McDonough and Waste Management today announced a new partnership — the Waste Management-McDonough Sustainable Innovation Collaborative — aimed at advancing and improving recyclability and lessening the environmental impacts of products and packaging. [...]

The idea of being health positive is grounded in the belief that building materials should be free of chemicals of concern. All stakeholders have the right to expect this beneficial interaction with their built environment. Health positive is a hazard-based concept that respects not only the site boundary, but also the full length of the [...]

The Upcycle book offers case studies of MBDC's work over the past decade fostering continuous improvement towards the goal of a wholly positive impact on people and the planet.

In an effort to chronicle the sustainability movement through McDonough's eyes, Stanford University Libraries has engaged in a unique experiment by creating the academic institution's first "Living Archive."

Joel Makower of GreenBiz.com talks to Bill McDonough about 'The Upcycle'. The book ties together the impressive contributions McDonough and Braungart have made over the past quarter century, individually and together, toward the goal of re-envisioning commerce. [...]

Upcycling means that we’d get that bottle back and take out the antimony. It gets better. That’s what we mean by upcycling: the idea that things get better when humans touch them. They move to their next use. The book is about taking things and imagining what’s next for them [...]

Blog post in Huffington Post by William McDonough about upcycling everything from public lands to railroad tracks.