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Steven Spielberg To Make Documentary About Green Architect William McDonough?
According to Business 2.0, Steven Spielberg may make a documentary about green-design guru William McDonough. Spielberg was inspired by the impact of the film "An Inconvenient Truth" starring Al Gore....
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William McDonough Takes on First Healthcare Facility
Hospitals should be healthy places, so its nice to know sustainable design firm William McDonough + Partners has a hand in the UCSF Medical Center University of California on the rise in San...
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The TH Interview: Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute
Tim Toben is the former CEO of KnowledgeBase Marketing who, after taking a fishing trip with Bill McDonough, became convinced of the need for a new, innovative, green economy. He is now one of the...
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Quote of the Day: William McDonough on the Triple Top Line
The conventional design criteria is a tripod: Can we profit from it? the company asks. Will the customer find it attractive? And will it work? Champions of "sustainable development" like to use a...
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Brad Pitt, Steve Bing Plan New 150-Home Community in New Orleans
Actor Brad Pitt has just communicated plans to build a new community of homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Announcing the new effort at today's meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, Pitt will...
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Clinton Global Initiative Highlights: Energy & Climate Change
Governor Charles Crist (R-Fl) is really, really tan, Virgin puts its planes on a diet, Swiss Re greens its employees, and Wendy Abrams installs a public art project you can't avoid. Plus, Brad
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Material ConneXion, MBDC and EPEA Announce Cradle-to-Cradle Partnership
Material ConneXion, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), and the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) have banded together to help companies develop more-sustainable products...
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Carlo Giovani's 3D Paper Forest
We can't tell if the paper sculptures were made from recycled fibers, but you gotta admit, it's a brilliant and impressive tableau. And like William McDonough has pointed out so often, nature doesn't...
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Quote of the Day: William McDonough on Design Humility
But, I think if anybody here has trouble with the concepts
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USPS Goes Cradle to Cradle
We've already seen the United States Postal Service making aggressive attempts to reduce its energy bills, and MSNBC has recently brought us news about Cradle to Cradle going mainstream. However, it...
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Bioneers 2007: Seeding Practical Solutions and Social Innovations
[This is a post by Vikash Singh.] I love the way Janine Benyus put it a few years back, " if we were migrating birds, this would be our staging ground, where we come and talk about what we hatched...
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First C2C Computer Keyboard: Pound it into Compost (UPDATE: or not)
We love cradle-to-cradle products, certified by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry to The standards are set very high: "using environmentally safe and healthy materials; design for material...
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Solar City to Rise in Arizona
Is the eco-city becoming the new standard in city building? These days, it seems, more and more cities are being built from the ground up for sustainability. China is building
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Ferrari: Now Available in Greenwash
While reporting on the latest green trends around the world, we are always on the lookout for greenwash. After all, it seems everyone these days is either going green or claiming to achieve carbon...
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Do Something Good for the Planet: Take the Afternoon Off
Want to do something good for the planet? Punch out a little early. Take the afternoon off. Work less. This is the argument of Juliet Schor, a sociologist at Boston College, in "Sustainable...
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Green Materials + Mass Customization = Peter Pless's Comp Lounge
Unveiled at IMM Cologne '08 last month, Peter Pless combined Cradle-to-Cradle-like design sensibility with the desire to offer multiple functions from the same piece to create the Comp Lounge. As the...
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TreeHugger Picks: Cradle to Cradle-Certified Products
Embodying a variety of sustainability options -- "using environmentally safe and healthy materials; design for material reutilization, such as recycling or composting; the use of renewable energy and...
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Quote of the Day: Michael Braungart on Population
"But I can tell you, sustainability is boring. It is just
View ArticleAt IIDEX: Shaw Exoworx Cradle-to-Cradle Carpet
"We are working on the design of communities and begin with what we call the Essay of Clues. We look at things like the sun, the wind, the water, the biological history and the culture of the site....
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Bill McDonough Gets Trashed in Fast Company
TreeHugger loves Bill McDonough; We have probably written more posts about him and his cradle-to-cradle certification than any other individual. He is the king of the green one-liner, a brilliant and...
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Cradle to Cradle - Hype or Future? An exhibition about what could be the next...
The Dutch are still enamoured of the Cradle to Cradle concept and are currently hosting the exhibition Cradle to Cradle -Hype or Future in the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. The aim of the show is to...
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Can Stretch Fabric Be Compostable? Rohner Textil Think So
Last year we were approached by a designer wanting to develop a line of sustainable swimwear. We observed that one very tricky element would be doing away with the stretch element: elastane or...
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Don't You Wonder What Happened to Huangbaiyu?
There was a time when I scoured the Internet for info about the Chinese villages of Huangbaiyu. That's because I was writing articles about eco-cities of the future, and amazingly enough,
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Would You Take a Shower With Tyvek?
An off-gassing shower curtain with its 108 volatile organic compounds, is an affront to your health and your senses. So it's natural to want to applaud the efforts of four designers, grouped together...
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Tom Darden on Making It Right in New Orleans
Image: PBS Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative organization whose cutting-edge designs, sculpted by world-class architects,...
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Yet Another Attempt to Define Sustainability
Next to "Green" it is perhaps the most overused and misunderstood word in the envirobiz; We previously asked "Is Sustainability Over"; Bill McDonough thought it over years ago when he said "We still...
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Can Green Visionaries and Eco Realists Coexist?
When I wrote about the UK government's apparent redefinition of 'zero carbon homes', an anonymous commenter noted how amusing it is "when governments figure out that it's much harder to
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Ford's Giant Green Roof Started Ten Years Ago; How Things Have Changed
It's ten years since the start of construction of the green roof on top of the big River Rouge plant. Kevin described it in TreeHugger in 2004: "The 10.4 acre sedum roof insulates the building,...
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Herman Miller's GreenHouse Factory Generates 15 Pounds of Landfill Waste Per...
This doesn't look like any factory I have ever been in. The interior street (curved, because architect William McDonough wanted the experience to change as it unfolded before you) is full of plants...
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William McDonough at Dwell on Design: A More "Effective" Not Just More...
A compact chicken coop for city dwellers that wheels around the yard and fertilizes soil is on display at "Dwell on Design" this weekend. The show's awards recognize
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