MBDC & EPEA

Unified in the belief that good design is good business, Material ConneXion, MBDC and EPEA are committed to providing greater global access to industry-changing Cradle to Cradle material solutions.

MBDC

(McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC)

MBDC was founded in 1995 by internationally recognized architect/designer William McDonough together with Professor Michael Braungart, as a strategic environmental consulting and design firm, dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide using the Cradle to CradleSM framework. The pair teamed up to promote and shape what they refer to as “The Next Industrial Revolution” through the introduction of a new design paradigm and the implementation of eco-effective principles. McDonough and Braungart are co-authors of the book Cradle to Cradle – Remaking the Way We Make Things, published in 2002 by NorthPoint Press.

MBDC developed and offers the Cradle to Cradle SM Product Certification System that verifies manufactures’ achievements using a series of environmental and social criteria. These criteria are based on the principles of Cradle to Cradle, developed by McDonough, Braungart and MBDC.

Cradle to CradleSM is a service mark of MBDC.

www.mbdc.com

EPEA

(Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency)

EPEA was founded in 1987 by world renowned chemist Prof. Michael Braungart as an independent scientific research institute based in Hamburg, that develops Cradle to Cradle product solutions.

EPEA’s interdisciplinary team aligns products to Cradle to Cradle design goals with tools that have been developed ad hoc for this purpose. Cradle to Cradle design makes products possible that are economically successful, healthy for users and supportive for the environment and future generations. Their innovative design not only addresses appearance and functionality, but it also addresses the definition of their composition and enables a new dimension of quality and security of these products along with their material flow cycle. By integrating economic, social and environmental aspects, they are superior to currently produced and available products.

EPEA’s driving goal is to not only reach positive effects for end users by aiding in the development of healthy products, but also for the environment in general by way of safe products for consumption and products for service, where technical nutrients are recovered and processed, based on Intelligent Product System (IPS). This also applies to a next generation because the resources that are mobilized for Cradle to Cradle products are maintained as such and effectively used. EPEA is a licensee of the Cradle to CradleSM Product Certification System developed by MBDC.