If you ask the national media, Earth Day has expanded to basically the entire month of April, and Charlottesville-based architectural visionary William McDonough is a favorite subject. Yesterday’s New York Times magazine, in its Green Issue, gives a nod to McDonough’s “Cradle to Cradle” certification—a designation awarded to products that satisfy the philosophy which McDonough is quoted summarizing thus: “Waste is basically stupid.” Vanity Fair’s current issue is also “green,” and includes a long profile of McDonough, calling him “a harbinger of a movement to redesign design itself.”
 The New York Times magazine and Vanity Fair both mention local architect William McDonough in their "green" issues. |
Previous "This Just In" articles from this week:
A generous competition [April 20]
Times reveals hasty origins of AccessUVA
Local news, defined [April 19]
NBC29 raises the color bars
State launches wine distribution company [April 18]
Aims to help small vineyards that are not allowed to distribute their own wines
Let it shine [April 17]
UVA holds memorial service on the one-year anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings
Charlottesville developer looks north [April 16]
Octagon Partners to build 22 condos in Culpeper
Area shotputter headed to Olympics [April 15]
Won silver in 2000 and 2004