Tag: William Mcdonough

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  William McDonough at Dwell on Design: A More "Effective" Not Just More "Efficient" Future

  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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  Herman Miller's GreenHouse Factory Generates 15 Pounds of Landfill Waste Per Month

  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 and amenities; there are no

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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, provides a

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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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  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 have people talking about 'sustainability'! Nothing

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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, are both stunning and controversial. Tom Darden is

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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 at a fledgling design firm called

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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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  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 spandex, what most of us more

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  Cradle to Cradle - Hype or Future? An exhibition about what could be the next industrial revolution.

  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 explain to the general

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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 entertaining speaker, and a pretty good architect.

• At 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. Then we imagine that we are birds that evolved for that

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  Quote of the Day: Michael Braungart on Population

  "But I can tell you, sustainability is boring. It is just

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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 energy efficiency" and several more -- William

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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 cushions change places, so does the chair's

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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 Consumption and Worktime

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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 neutrality.

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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