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Hyper-green products go 'cradle to cradle'  -  Oct 11, 2007
MSNBC...“Ideally, cradle to cradle will become the mantra for product design. No company will enter a product development process without using these criteria,�

Sustainability through corn  -  Oct 19, 2007
Imprint,This cradle to cradle method of product planning is replacing cradle to grave thinking, which indicates a transformation in the way we apply technology to

Montana State Library Aims To Go Digital by June 2008  -  Oct 19, 2007
Library Journal,Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using. What’s hot: LBD May 2007 The latest in library products

Summit Publishing Company Announces a New Book -- Field Guide to ...  -  Oct 10, 2007
Emediawire (press release),..."Our Field Guide offers a realistic view of sustainable packaging issues and, like Cradle to Cradle, we're confident it will spark discussions throughout

The environment, Sun and the sun  -  Oct 16, 2007
IT-Director.comUnless, of course, the components can be recycled into something of equal or higher value (see McDonough and Braungart's Cradle to Cradle book for more on

Greenbridge Development by McDonough and Partners  -  Oct 9, 2007
Inhabitat...by Jorge When William McDonough of Cradle to Cradle fame speaks, we at Inhabitat like to listen to what he has to say. So when something that he designed

NOLA Gets Boost from Brad Pitt's Housing Group  -  Oct 16, 2007
Architectural RecordThe prototypes meet guidelines that William McDonough, whose cradle-to-cradle model treats all architectural inputs as reusable.

Ideas presented to infuse rural communities, support work of ...  -  Oct 3, 2007
West Central Tribune,Instead of the “cradle-to-grave� concept of looking at the length of life a product has, there is a trend to look at products with a “cradle-to-cradle� eye

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mediabistro.com,Oliver Low-designed chair that was the first product to ever receive Cradle to Cradle Product Certification from McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry.

Brad Pitt, Steve Bing Plan New 150-Home Community in New Orleans ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),...*Make It Right is collaborating with William McDonough + Partners to develop the environmental criteria guiding the project, using Cradle to Cradle thinking

Living in a Material World  -  Sep 30, 2007
Cleantech Blog,Upon hearing his talk, I felt guilty that I had never read McDonough’s seminal book (co-authored with Michael Braungart), Cradle to Cradle.

Stroom Den Haag  -  Sep 29, 2007
E-Flux,Cradle to Cradle looks to the future with designs guaranteeing reuse of high quality, and looks at nature, with value increase at every stage of the cycle:

LIFECYCLE BUILDING CHALLENGE: Pavilion in the Park  -  Oct 15, 2007
InhabitatThe building, designed by Miller|Hull, is green in purpose and material, but sets itself apart in its cradle-to-cradle nature- it can be completely

From blue collar to green chemistry  -  Oct 8, 2007
ZDNetI'm sure you've heard of William McDonough, who wrote the book Cradle to Cradle about sustainable design. It was written with a chemist.

Armstrong businesses go green  -  Oct 12, 2007
Vernon Morning Star,The cradle-to-cradle process, Vallejo explained, is centred on creating a product from safe materials which, when the consumer is finished with it,

Engineering Green Packaging  -  Oct 8, 2007
Design News,As applied to packaging, the cradle-to-cradle approach also takes performance, economic and social goals into account. "Sustainable technologies won't do

HEINEKEN WOBO: The brick that holds beer  -  Oct 10, 2007
Inhabitat...by Ali Upcycling is a 21st century term, coined by Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart, but the idea of turning waste into

Reno News & Review  -  Oct 4, 2007
Sacramento News and Review,Green space Cradle and allJust what does “cradle to cradle� mean, anyway? Cover story Rescue dogsPrisoners give dogs a second chance with Pups on Parole

Mitchell Pace & Associates Launches Environmental Building ...  -  Oct 16, 2007
KXMC,Due to the VOC-free, high-recycled content and Cradle-to-Cradle certification, IceStone durable surfaces are ideal for projects seeking LEED certification.

Euclidean dynamics  -  Sep 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times,It isn't just the heady Euclidean name, Ayn Randian design or ultra-green cradle-to-cradle engineering that makes it so unique. It's also where it's sold.

Enviro Mental: Going Green Without Going Crazy  -  Sep 25, 2007
Huffington Post,I read William McDonough's Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things and Janine Benyus' Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature.

Better Energy Introduces Next Generation Solio(R) - the Hybrid1000(R)  -  Sep 28, 2007
Earthtimes.orgThe Hybrid1000 is also carbon neutral, designed with a cradle-to-cradle approach to minimize waste and pollution. Beyond the product's ability to harness

Can the Age of Metals Last?  -  Oct 11, 2007
Guerrilla News NetworkDr. Michael Braungart, an environmental chemist, and eco architect and designer William McDonough in their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make

Brad Pitt Announces 150-Home Green Development For New Orleans  -  Sep 26, 2007
Ecorazzi,The goals are to implement a “cradle-to-cradle� sustainable design and organize a core team of local, national and international architects.

C2C Holdings, Inc. Launches 'A Very Green Holiday Season' with ...  -  Oct 12, 2007
PR Web (press release),Our cradle-to-cradle design philosophy, symbolized by our ReProductâ„¢ greeting card, achieves a powerful goal: beauty without inefficiency.

DeLoach Urges Packaging Industry to Lead Efforts to Improve ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),DeLoach pointed out that Sonoco's growing number of sustainability-related business offerings are focused on providing its customers with "cradle-to-cradle"

Premiere Eco-Lifestyle Event, EcoNouveau, Kicks Off LA Fashion Week  -  Oct 2, 2007
CSRwire.com (press release)...more educated on the impact of our choices" "EcoNouveau aims to promote concepts like 'cradle to cradle' and 'biomimicry' to industry and consumers,

Herman Miller's ambitious cradle-to-cradle goals  -  Aug 15, 2007
Grist Magazine,As the eco-geeks among you likely know, Herman Miller is way out ahead of almost any other company on the planet in pursuing cradle-to-cradle principles.

Green All-Star Team Commits to Designing a Healthier World For ...  -  Aug 16, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),In addition to raising funds for a worthy cause, the project team also intends to use the design opportunity to develop the world's first Cradle to Cradle

An Inconvenient Leo  -  Aug 17, 2007
TIMEGreen architecture gets star placement, and eco-design gurus like William MacDonough talk about the need to create "cradle-to-cradle" products that can be

Herman Miller's Cradle to Cradle approach to sustainable product ...  -  Aug 10, 2007
Core77.com,...the transcript of a talk given by Scott Charon and Susan Lyons on Herman Miller's sustainable design program based on the Cradle to Cradle protocol.

Action Sports Athletes, Corporate Members Celebrate Green X Games  -  Aug 15, 2007
Transworld Business Magazine,...“As the first industry coalition to pursue a Cradle to Cradle(SM) design approach, ASEC is setting the standard for their community peers, as well as for

‘Cradle to Cradle’ certification set for re-launch  -  Aug 9, 2007
Ecotextile News,The ‘Cradle to Cradle’ design concept is based on the Intelligent Product System (IPS) pioneered by chemist Michael Braungart in 1986.

Green Product Certifier Invites Feedback on Cradle to Cradle(SM ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Earthtimes.org3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of the leading systems for certifying products with environmental attributes, Cradle to Cradle(SM) Certification by the

Eco-Effective Decisions: Live in the First Cradle-to-Cradle ...  -  Aug 3, 2007
Green Options blog,The duo now runs a practice (MBDC: McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry) in Charlottesville, Virginia that awards cradle-to-cradle certification to

Part 1 - Working Toward a Cradle to Cradle Packaging Lifecycle  -  Jul 30, 2007
RetailWire (subscription),The alternative approach, a "Cradle-to-Cradle" Packaging Lifecycle, introduces two practices in efforts to "design waste out of the lifecycle of the package

Countdown to Extinction  -  Aug 15, 2007
LA Weekly,...“Cradle to Cradle� architect William McDonough has presented environmental remediation as a manageable design problem; and attorney Tom Linzey has

Specifying It: Herman Miller’s Scott Charon and Susan Lyons @ ICFF  -  Aug 10, 2007
Metropolis Magazine,These two guys got together in the mid-1990s, formed this comprehensive protocol called Cradle to Cradle. We have adopted it, and made it a part of the way

Grads Look To Mushrooms For Eco-building Material  -  Aug 1, 2007
Chief Engineer,...“ Green building materials should be evaluated on the idea of cradle to cradle,� said Evelyne Michaut of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Packaging for the planet  -  Aug 7, 2007
Marketing Web,Numerous organisations have been formed to assist companies in reorienting their product and packaging development into a new "cradle to cradle" system.

Herman Miller, the BHAG, and Internalizing Sustainability  -  Aug 15, 2007
GreenBiz,It's called Cradle to Cradle protocol. It took thousands of man-hours to secure an offline database documenting every chemical and material used in every

WhereNet Expands Yard Management System Features; User-Defined ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
CNNMoney.comA recognized leader in environmental stewardship, Shaw has implemented hundreds of sustainability initiatives and cradle-to-cradle design solutions,

Tips and titles for eco living  -  Jul 22, 2007
Chicago Tribune,In the seminal "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" (North Point Press, 208 pages, $27.50), architect/designer William McDonough and chemist

Columbia College Launches Sustainable Design Degrees  -  Aug 6, 2007
GNET,The "cradle to cradle" ideas developed by William McDonough emphasize the viewpoint that materials function like nutrients circulating in ecosystems,

Design for your Baby  -  Aug 7, 2007
Pure Contemporary,This bag is about the future after all, and cradle to cradle the future is green. Get more info, send in your ideas and sign up to be on the waiting list at

Gravity Defiance at Materials & Applications  -  Aug 9, 2007
Dexigner...materials beyond what typical commercial and residential project limits allow towards a structural implant that comes from a cradle-to-cradle approach.

Green design firm moves business to Salem  -  Jul 20, 2007
OurValley.org,The letters stand for cradle to cradle. Construction of the first C2C Home, built by Southern Heritage Homes and Blue Ridge Housing Development Corporation

Sweet Solutions  -  Aug 2, 2007
Plenty Magazine,Godoy, linked this pre-Columbian rite to an idea of more recent vintage: the cradle-to-cradle thinking of green gurus William McDonough and Michael

A green business tipping point?  -  Jul 31, 2007
CNNMoney.comSo will the innovations, which are increasingly coming into the marketplace: green chemistry, bio-based materials, nature-inspired design, cradle-to-cradle

Herman Miller: Business As Unusual  -  Jul 26, 2007
IndustryWeekBy following the widely known, comprehensive "cradle to cradle" principles of the McDonough Braungart Design Protocol, Herman Miller transitioned earlier

Eco Intelligence®--Rivière  -  Aug 10, 2007
Canadian Architect,...uses fully optimized dyes and chemicals and has been co-developed and certified Cradle to Cradle Gold by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC).

China's Green Evolution  -  Jul 23, 2007
Popular Science,In 1996 McDonough was the first, and so far only, individual to win the White House award for green design; the title of his 2002 book, Cradle to Cradle,

Small Packages Can Have A Big Impact  -  Aug 10, 2007
GreenBiz,..."We think of it as cradle to cradle packaging," Maune says of the focus on recycleability. "Using recycled material is an obvious choice for us and we've

Workspaces adapt along with technology  -  Aug 9, 2007
Michigan Business Review,...and is recycled or recyclable or both, called cradle-to-cradle. That's doing nothing but expanding exponentially. We have a term for it: green washing.

ASK THE EXPERT  -  Aug 4, 2007
Arkansas Democrat Gazette,SCScertified. com Cradle to Cradle (C 2 C ) Certification: Sets standards for “environmentally intelligent� design by examining the entire life cycle of

Eco-Effective Options: Prefabrication and Modularity  -  Jul 27, 2007
Green Options blog,In terms of furniture, the complete cycle of Ecosystems Furniture resembles a quite responsible cradle to cradle method. The deconstructed components are

Eco Effective Decisions: Vote on Sustainable Design for the Future  -  Jul 20, 2007
Green Options blog,Lets hope that this is not the trend of the year but an annual progression towards more socially and sustainability conscious design and cradle-to-cradle

Cradle and All  -  Sep 26, 2006
Nashville Scene,The author of "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" comes as the guest of the Tennessee Fund for Sustainability. The lecture is free... ...

Earth tones  -  Oct 7, 2006
Reading Eagle,On one hand, designers were invited to design umbrellas based on the concept of Cradle to Cradle the idea that products should be either designed from natural ...

Building 'green' trend spreads to Roanoke  -  Sep 28, 2006
Roanoke Times,Roanoke's C2C Home also continues to collaborate with Charlottesville-based architect William McDonough, whose "Cradle to Cradle" green building concepts are ...

C2C remains a vital experiment in living  -  Sep 30, 2006
Roanoke Times,...of two years ago are just now getting close to taking its success to the next level: building one home that incorporates Cradle to Cradle sustainable building ...

Our Critics Picks  -  Sep 20, 2006
Nashville Scene,McDonough, an architect, uses science and design sensibilities to argue for “ecologically intelligent design.� In his book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the ...

Smart Shoppers' Non-Food Labels Guide  -  Oct 4, 2006
The Green Guide,Cradle to Cradle (C2C): Promotes production of goods using materials that can be recycled indefinitely; verifies use of environmentally safer materials ...

Autodesk Joins China-US Center for Sustainable Development  -  Sep 14, 2006
Ten Links (press release),Designing and developing urban "new towns" and rural villages to demonstrate the effectiveness of cradle-to-cradle design principles. ...

Chinese land-use officials visit PSU  -  Sep 26, 2006
PSU Daily Vanguard,..."We call it a 'win and learn' approach.". Last week's group studied zoning, consensus building, and the principles behind "cradle-to-cradle design.". ...

What Netflix Tells Us About a Bright Green Future  -  Sep 14, 2006
WorldChanging...strides towards producing a green computer, and there's every reason to believe that with committed effort, we can create cradle-to-cradle, extremely efficient ...

The Climate Is Right  -  Sep 13, 2006
LA City Beat,She also drew inspiration from William McDonough, coauthor of 2002’s Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, and was “blown away� by his ...

Umbrella Inside Out - The Final Moment Is Here!  -  Sep 21, 2006
Treehugger,...umbrella! Our final two umbrella designs take distinct Cradle to Cradle approaches. ... upcycling. Which one is the best Cradle to Cradle design? ...

SOLEIL HOME AUTOMATION SHADING SHOWCASES WHISPERTRAK AT CEDIA EXPO  -  Sep 14, 2006
Home Toys (press release),The Mecho/5 system with EcoVeil is rated as a Silver, Cradle to Cradle product under the protocol created by MBDC and referenced in the book Cradle to Cradle ...

Convention of architects has designs on Youngstown  -  Sep 13, 2006
Youngstown Vindicator,Charlottesville, Va. The firm has developed a design philosophy called "cradle to cradle" that goes beyond mitigating environmental damage. The ...

Charles Shor of Paper Bag Manufacturer, Duro, Announces Continued ...  -  Sep 15, 2006
PR Web (press release),Coalition (SPC), formed in 2003 as a project of the nonprofit GreenBlue Institute, is an industry working group inspired by cradle to cradle principles and ...

Arts calendar  -  Sep 20, 2006
Nashville City Paper,Free. William McDonough: Sustainable design movement McDonough, author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, is a leader in the movement for ...

HOWARD NATURALSâ„¢ TEAMS WITH PAPERSTONEâ„¢ PRODUCTS  -  Sep 25, 2006
E-Wire (press release),They have FSC certification and are involved in the Cradle to Cradle Certification program which is the industry's most rigorous review of a material and a ...

Clean Agency Is Keeping It Fresh  -  Sep 14, 2006
Yahoo! News (press release)New content includes case studies that range from marketing a chain of Yoga studios to the creation of a cradle-to-cradle packaging solution, the Rapioli(TM ...

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