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- William McDonough Keynotes Sustainable Brands: A Bold New Vision for the Collection, Processing, Circularity and Productivity of Plastic Waste
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- VIDEO Leading Voices: Alumnus on Sustainability, Dartmouth

Writings

‘Upcycling’ business: honouring nature while meeting society’s needs (2013)
A 21st Century View of Architectural Graphic Standards (2005)
A Boat for Thoreau (1997)
A Building Like a Tree, a Campus Like a Forest (2002)
A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things (1993)
A Field of Dreams (2003)
A New Era for Manufacturing (2004)
A New Geography of Hope (2002)
Address to the Woods Hole Symposium (2003)
Between Technology and Culture (2003)
Beyond Efficiency (2001)
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line (2002)
Building Cities that Celebrate Life (2014)
Building for a Better World and Making People Smile (2014)
Buildings Like Trees, Cities Like Forests (2002)
Carbon Is Not The Enemy (2016)
Celebrating Human Artifice (2003)
Clean Machine (2014)
Climate change and circular economy take centre stage at Davos (2014)
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002)
Dear Conscious Choice (2002)
Design for the Triple Top Line (2002)
Designing cities and factories with urban agriculture in mind (2014)
Designing The City Of Tomorrow (2017)
Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design (2013)
Earth Days (2013)
Fashion is a Verb (2015)
Foreword to the Chinese Edition of Cradle to Cradle (2003)
Foreword: Leading Change Toward Sustainability (2003)
Foreword: Second Nature Urban Agriculture (2014)
Foreword: The Natural Advantage of Nations (2004)
From Principles to Practices (2003)
Hope and Human Enterprise (2001)
How Much Can I Give for What I Get? (2002)
Investing in Innovation for the Common Good (2015)
Let’s save ‘endangered technical species’ (2013)
Principles, Practices and Sustainable Design (2003)
Redefining Green (2002)
Regulation and Re-design (2003)
Something Lived, Something Dreamed (2003)
The 1.4 billion pound pet-stained global menace (2013)
The Cradle-to-Cradle Alternative (2004)
The Elephant in the Living Room (2004)
The Extravagant Gesture (2001)
The Future of Small-Scale Wind Power (2014)
The Guardian Reborn (2002)
The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability (1992)
The Living City (2002)
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance (2013)
Toward a 21st Century Renaissance (2003)
Toward a Future of Energy Effectiveness (2003)
Toward a Sustaining Architecture for the 21st Century (2003)
Waging Peace With Intelligent Design (2002)

Milestones

“Waste=Food” documentary released in Europe
“Industrial Revolution Take Two,” a profile of McDonough, is published in Vanity Fair
2016 USGBC Leadership Award
Ambassador J. William Middendorf ll Award
American University School of International Service
Aspect Communications World Headquarters
Benjamin Botwinick Prize for Ethical Practice in the Professions
Biological Nutrient Pavilion (Parkcafé Groen), Park 20|20
Bluewater, Park 20|20
Bosch Siemens is the first building to open at Park 20|20
C&A Announces First Cradle to Cradle Certified™ GOLD T-Shirts in Partnership with MBDC and McDonough Innovation
C&A launches Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold-level jeans developed with McDonough Innovation and MBDC
Cradle to Cradle Day
Cradle to Cradle released as part of the Penguin Patterns of Life series
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is published
DesignTex introduces the William McDonough Collection of Climatex® Lifecycle™ textiles
Dropbox Headquarters Opens
Ecourban 22@
Esquire magazine publishes “The Future of Design: Design for Living,” by McDonough
Fashion for Good Launches in Partnership with McDonough Innovation
Fashion for Good, co-founded by William McDonough, opens museum in Amsterdam
FIFPro world headquarters opens at Park 20|20
Ford Rouge revitalization and landscape master plan is completed
Ford Truck Plant
Fox Vakanties, Park 20|20
Frito-Lay Jim Rich Service Center & Offices
Fuller Theological Seminary David Allan Hubbard Library
Gap’s new headquarters opens (currently home to YouTube)
Herman Miller’s Greenhouse opens
Hero Global Center for Innovation and Technology Opens
Hero MotoCorp’s Garden Factory in Neemrana opens
IBM Corporate Offices, Riekerpolder
ICEhouse is reassembled in the Netherlands
ICEhouse is unveiled in Davos
ICEhouse returns to Davos
Isola
Karachi School for Business & Leadership
MBDC is established
McDonough becomes a charter member of the U.S. Green Building Council
McDonough becomes a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
McDonough becomes an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of ASLA
McDonough becomes the first and only individual to receive the U.S. Presidential Award for Sustainable Development
McDonough co-founds GreenBlue
McDonough delivers “A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things” at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
McDonough designs the first “green office” in New York, for the Environmental Defense Fund
McDonough establishes his architecture firm in New York
McDonough is a founding member of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment
McDonough is appointed Special Advisor to President Clinton (1993-1996) and the Presidential Council of Sustainable Development
McDonough is awarded the Rockwool Prize from the Danish Architecture Center
McDonough is named a “Hero for the Planet” by Time magazine and “Designer of the Year” by Interiors magazine
McDonough is the official representative of the American Institute of Architects at the Earth Summits in Rio de Janeiro and New York
McDonough keynotes the AIA National Convention
McDonough keynotes the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo
McDonough receives I.D. Forty Design Award from I.D. magazine
McDonough’s Warsaw Tower design is a cartoon in The New Yorker
McDonough’s Warsaw Tower design is on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal
Method Southside Soapbox Grand Opening in Chicago
NASA Sustainability Base grand opening
National Design Award
National Wildlife Federation Conservation Award
Nike European Headquarters
Plantronics, Park 20|20
Rachel Carson Environmental Award
Scientific American publishes “Designing the City of Tomorrow” by William McDonough
Shaw Contract relaunches A Walk in the Garden
Stanford University Libraries acquire the archives of William McDonough
Technical Nutrient Pavilion, Park 20|20
The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College opens
The Atlantic publishes “The NEXT Industrial Revolution” by McDonough with Michael Braungart
The Bison Courtyard at Bear Street
The Circulars 2017 Winner of The Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership
The non profit Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is established
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is released
U.S. EPA awards McDonough the 21st Century Visionary Science Leadership Award
U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Working Group
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment
Visitor Center, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
VMware Corporate Campus
While a graduate student at Yale, William McDonough builds the first solar heated house in Ireland
William McDonough & Michael Braungart honored with WorldGBC Award
William McDonough Accelerates Circular Economy During World Economic Forum
William McDonough Addresses Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum
William McDonough Announces a New Language of Carbon
William McDonough Announces The Five Goods
William McDonough Architects authors “The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability”
William McDonough Day
William McDonough gives Closing Plenary at Greenbuild
William McDonough Gives G20 Opening Speeches on the Circular Carbon Economy
William McDonough graduates from Dartmouth College
William McDonough headlines The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) on Safe & Circular: Cradle to Cradle Design™ for the Circular Economy
William McDonough is Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
William McDonough joins Circulate Capital advisory board
William McDonough keynotes Emerson Collective’s Do-Fest at Cavallo Point entitled Cradle to Cradle Oceans
William McDonough keynotes GreenBiz 2018
William McDonough keynotes Sustainable Brands 2017 in Detroit
William McDonough keynotes SXSW Eco
William McDonough Launches The Circular Carbon Economy During COP 25
William McDonough named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders
William McDonough presents “Towards a New Language of Luxury” at the New York Times International Luxury Conference
William McDonough receives 2017 Hanley Award
William McDonough Sets A New Framework for Plastics and Packaging at Sustainable Brands
William McDonough speaks at the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit
William McDonough speaks at the last CGI Annual Meeting
William McDonough speaks on the National Mall for Earth Day
Woods Hole Research Center Gilman Ordway Campus
World Economic Forum, China
World Economic Forum, Davos

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