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The best tools for using healthier materials in your products

This article is the second in a three-part series exploring the challenges manufacturers face to design healthier products and the resources available to help them avoid chemicals of concern. Each post will focus one of the three phases in the Cradle to Cradle framework: inventory, assessment and optimization. [...]

Barking Up the Right Tree: How Highland Craftsman Is Helping the Local Environment, Economy

The family-owned company creates high-quality architectural products out of local Yellow Poplar bark that is reclaimed from the logging industry. All aspects of the company operations were modeled on Cradle to Cradle® principles.

C2C Thinking Helps Shaw Redefine Sustainability in Flooring Industry

Shaw Industries integrates Cradle to Cradle thinking across the organization and has Cradle to Cradle Certified products in all residential and commercial flooring categories, including broadloom carpet, carpet tile, hardwood and rugs.

Inhabitat Interview with Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough

Inhabitat interviews William McDonough about all things Cradle to Cradle. The thought-provoking and energetic conversation gives you a taste of how intimately intertwined design is with a product’s real-world impacts.

How Construction Specialties took on the PVC industry – and won

"CS has been in a state of "constant improvement," Williams said, with all of its wall covering products going from silver Cradle to Cradle certification to gold. And the company is on the path to removing PVC from all of its other interior products, such as flooring. [...]

Dan Probst of Jones Lang LaSalle highlights benefits of Cradle to Cradle in built environment

Bridgett Luther of C2CPII gives an overview of Dan Probst of Jones Lang LaSalle thought on the benefits of C2C in the built environment.

Interviews with William McDonough, keynote speaker at VERGE San Francisco

In a Studio C interview, Bill McDonough talks about how a city is made up of complex and serendipitous interactions, outlining new tools and approaches that are helping improve the livability.

Cradle to Cradle Gains Independence: A First Look at the 3.0 Launch

The long-anticipated third version of the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) green product standard will add a new certification level and make energy and water requirements more stringent—at the same time loosening ingredient disclosure requirements—for entry-level certification. [...]

Greenbuild 2012

San Francisco, CA: Wililam McDonough was the closing plenary speaker at Greenbuild 2012, as well as a speaker in the Master Series: Performance, Outcome, Applause-A conversation with USGBC's Scot Horst. Click here for links to the videos of the pesentations. [...]

Verge@Greenbuild

San Francisco, CA: William McDonough is a keynote speaker at VERGE@Greenbuild 2012. View the video of the discussion on VERGE & the Built Environment: How design technologies and creative urban development is reshaping the built environment in sustainable cities. [...]