Topic: William McDonough

Stanford University's Unique Economic Engine

Sixty next year, Stanford Research Park is, more than ever, the innovative heart of Silicon Valley.READ»

A Generation of Emerging Designers Who Design With Purpose

This emerging generation of designers wants to do more than create handsome and functional products. It’s out to protect the environment, improve health, reform education, and empower communities.READ»

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Healthier Families & Homes: How Consumer Product Companies Are Stepping up Chemical Safety

With all of the conversation in the Gulf and the health effects of humans and wildlife, toxicity is a growing concern among Americans. This article outlines some ways we can educate yourself about chemical safety in consumer products, and personal care products, for our families and in our homes.READ»

The Green Products Innovation Institute: Is This What "More Good" Looks Like?

A new sustainability certification system for products has just been unveiled by Cradle to Cradle guru William McDonough and endorsed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Is it the change we've been looking for? READ»

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NASA to Break Ground on Super-Green "Sustainability Base"

The new office will set a high bar for intelligent, self-monitoring building design.READ»

Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans

Pitt's foundation, Make it Right, eventually hopes to build 150 houses in the Ninth Ward--completely remaking the blighted neighborhood.READ»

The 30 Most Important Books for Product Designers

What are the most important books for any product designer--or anyone hoping to crib some design thinking? READ»

Four Architecural Visions of the Green House of the Future

The Wall Street Journal recently challenged architects to design a green house of the future. This morning, the paper unloaded the designs, that come from four firms: William McDonough, Rios Clemente Hale, Cook + Fox and Mouzon ...READ»

Green Guru William McDonough Must Change, Demand His Biggest Fans

McDonough at his Charlottesville, Virginia, offices | photograph by Martien Mulder I just received an email from Roger Cox, an attorney in the Netherlands who is one of green architect William McDonough's most ardent fans ...READ»

Required Reading for Interactive Designers

The storied School of Visual Arts, in New York, just published a list of required reading for the incoming class of students in its MFA interaction-design program. Here's a chance to get SVA MFA education for $58,000 off (not ...READ»

William McDonough: Yet Another Green Certification

Green design missionary William McDonough is now offering a new certification. Is this just another savvy marketing ploy, or possibly the road to large scale design transformation?READ»

• Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

Feedback

Cradle to Cradle Our November 2008 story about green architect William McDonough ("The Mortal Messiah") hit a nerve. "Why pick on him?" one irate reader wrote. "He deserves our thanks, not our scrutiny." Many other emails and ...READ»

Let's Turn The White House Into A 'Passive House'

David White, an architectural energy technical consultant at Transsolar who I met while reporting environmental design stories, is a passionate advocate for the passive house movement. "German Passivhaus," which originated decades ...READ»

Live From Greenbuild 2008: 30 Years, Now a Movement

30,000 architects, engineers, chemists, and designers gather in Boston for one purpose: how to solve environmental crisis through design. Will the movement survive the recession?READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

Editor's Letter: Comedy & Tragedy

Two years ago, while an editor at another business magazine, I worked with a writer on a major feature about the then-thriving Lehman Brothers. He was enamored of CEO Dick Fuld and his purported mastery of bond-market risk. "Fuld's ...READ»

Masters of Design: Sam Farber

Founder, Copco, OXO, and WovoREAD»

Matter

If the key to a young graduate's future was once "plastics," today it's biopolymers, plastic analogs made mostly from natural, biodegradable components instead of petrochemicals. "If you can create materials from the waste of ...READ»

Moving Heaven and Earth

When it comes to global warming, Richard Cizik and Jim Ball are hell-bent on making fellow evangelicals see the light.READ»

Resources: The Revolution Begins

Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.READ»

What Does Green Mean?

Architect Rafael Pelli's approach to designing healthy buildings defies easy categorization--and that's a good thing.READ»

Masters of Design: Arnold Wasserman

Chairman, The Idea FactoryREAD»

Masters of Design: Yves Behar

Founder, fuseprojectREAD»

Masters of Design: William McDonough

Principal and founder, William McDonough + PartnersREAD»

Masters of Design: Lessons From the Masters

1. Design is the Differentiator Ford design chief J Mays believes that only a distinctive look and feel will give customers a compelling reason to buy what is essentially a commodity. Ford has put design at the forefront of its ...READ»