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.