Jacob Melone, a Senior Environmental Consultant at MBDC, shares his reflections on a Cradle to Cradle workshop he conducted at a nearby school. This January, a private school near Richmond, VA reached out to MBDC about having a chemist present on sustainable and circular design to a class of design students. It was a new […]
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Blueland launched a new offering this week in its mission to eliminate the need for single-use plastic in consumer packaged goods: Foaming Hand Soap with a Platinum level Material Health Certificate assessed by MBDC. Following the successful debut of their Clean Up Kit, which earned positive reviews in Vox, Fast Company and the Wall Street […]
MBDC recently returned from Sustainable Brands ‘19 in Detroit, which took place last week. The annual conference brought together business leaders focused on chemistry, circular economy, energy, finance and communications/marketing with the mission of obtaining The Good Life. The Good Life directly corresponds with MBDC co-founder William McDonough’s Five Goods: Good Materials, Good Economy, Good […]
read more: MBDC Promotes Cradle to Cradle Design™ for the Circular Economy to Sustainable Brands
William McDonough, world-renowned architect, designer and co-founder of MBDC, will take the stage at Sustainable Brands on Tuesday, June 4 to share “A Bold New Vision for the Collection, Processing, Circularity and Productivity of Plastic Waste.” All those attending make sure to join McDonough on the mainstage at 9:15 a.m. to learn more about Cradle […]
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MBDC is pleased to share that William McDonough was named in Fortune Magazine’s sixth annual list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders at #24. Fortune listed McDonough amongst 49 other leaders who are “transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same.” Fortune’s inclusion of McDonough shows the growing recognition of and achievements in […]
MBDC provided the recently announced assessments for Henry Rose, a line of fine fragrances by Michelle Pfeiffer, resulting in Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold overall product certification and Platinum recognition in the Material Health category. In pursuit of certification at the Gold level, MBDC assessed the formulas for each fragrance down to the parts per […]
We are starting to see the emergence of organizations talking about their “environmental handprint”. Supposedly it’s the positive contribution to off-set their (presumed negative) footprint. Why do we need to invent a different construct for positivity? A footprint can be positive as well as negative! You don’t have to be destructive, you can be intentionally regenerative […]