Cradle To Cradle Products Innovation Institute
On May 20, 2010 at Google Corporate Headquarters, the Googleplex, McDonough announced the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute, which was later renamed the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. The Institute builds on the 2008 California state law that establishes the nation’s first green chemistry program. The non-profit public/private Institute has received the Cradle to Cradle product certification program on an exclusive, worldwide basis to accelerate the transition to safe material use and increased material reutilization. Executives from Google, Wal-Mart, YouTube, Shaw Inc. and Herman Miller Inc. joined McDonough for the announcement which took place before an audience of a couple hundred people.
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