William McDonough Archives

Ralph Lauren Introduces Industry’s First-Ever Cradle to Cradle Certified® Gold Cashmere Sweater

This week, Ralph Lauren introduced the industry's first-ever Cradle to Cradle Certified® Gold Cashmere Sweater, available in both the Men's Purple Label and Women's Collection brands.

Nordic Structures Achieves Cradle to Cradle Certified™ for Mass Timber Products

Nordic achieved Silver level certification for their Nordic X-Lam and Bronze for their Nordic Lam and Lam+.

MBDC and Blueland Continue Collaboration on Safer, Healthier Products

After assessing all of Blueland’s products and nearly all of their packaging for Material Health Certificates, we sat down with their Co-founder and COO John Mascari to talk about the process. To date, all of Blueland’s products and most of their packaging have achieved Platinum Material Health Certificates from the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation […]

Amazon features Cradle to Cradle Certified™ as part of their ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ badge

As the originators of the Cradle to Cradle Certified protocols and now a leading assessor for the certification, MBDC is delighted to see the world’s leading online retailer empower customers to make informed choices.

MBDC Co-Founder William McDonough Discusses Cradle to Cradle Design™ With Bill Nye

William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things and co-founder of MBDC, was recently a guest on Bill Nye’s Science Rules! podcast. During the episode, Nye and his co-host Corey S. Powell asked McDonough about his diverse areas of impact, including product chemistry, plastics and packaging, and architecture. In addition […]

New Environmental Chemist Joins MBDC Team

MBDC is happy to welcome Peyton Fernandez as our newest Environmental Chemist. Prior to joining the MBDC team, Peyton explored green chemistry in a variety of ways. We sat down with her to discuss her experience and thoughts on Cradle to Cradle Design™. What is your general background? As an environmentalist at heart with a […]

EIG and MBDC Assess the First Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Platinum Fabric for C&A

MBDC, creators of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program, and Circular Economy advisors Eco Intelligent Growth (EIG), have assessed the first Platinum certified fabric for C&A.

Blueland Debuts Waste-Free Hand Soap with Platinum Level Material Health Certificate Assessed by MBDC

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 […]

Middle School Student Learns About Cradle to Cradle Design™ From MBDC

Alex, an eighth grader in Charlottesville, VA recently spent the week shadowing members of the MBDC team. We sat down to ask her about how her time here shaped her way of thinking about sustainability and design. To start off, what kind of things have you been experiencing this week? I’ve been working a lot […]

MBDC Co-founder William McDonough To Deliver Plenary Talk at GreenBiz’s Inaugural Circularity Conference

MBDC co-founder and globally recognized leader in sustainable design and development William McDonough will present Not Just Circular, But Safe at Circularity ’19, GreenBiz’s first Circular Economy-themed conference in Minneapolis. At 3:00 p.m. CDT McDonough will explain how products can be made with safer, healthier materials, then be designed for circularity, all while using clean […]