Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

Danielle Sacks — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:14 -0400

The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were gathered in the Malibu home of one of L.A.'s biggest power brokers, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, and his wife, Kelly. The guest of honor at this 2005 dinner party: William McDonough. "He is," Kelly Meyer tells me later, "the environmental architect of our time."

The Green Housing Boom

Linda Tischler — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:21 -0400

"How do you inspire a revolution?" It's a question that obsesses Matthew Berman. A 36-year-old New York architect with short hair and a starched blue shirt, he doesn't, frankly, look like much of a rebel. "There's this grumbling," he continues. "It grows, it brings things to the center, and then you get this explosion."

U.S. Green Building Council

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

The Green Housing Boom