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B.A.U.M. Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewußtes Management e.V.
Cradle to Cradle Islands	Cradle-to-Cradle-Islands consist of ten island communities and 12 additional partners in the North Sea Region. They will tackle joint problems on islands and come up with innovative Cradle to Cradle® solutions for energy, mobility, water and materials.
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute	The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is a non-profit organization created to bring about a large scale transformation in the way we make things. Its mission is to guide product manufacturers and designers in making safe and healthy things for our world. Michael Braungart and William McDonough are the co-founders of the Institute.
Darden Graduate School of Business	At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Visiting Professor 2002 - present.
EPEA Akademie	At the EPEA Academy the functioning of the Cradle to Cradle® concept is taught in seminars. Its effects on a healthy environment, human beings and the economy are communicated.
EPEA GmbH – Part of Drees & Sommer	Social and economic success are sustainable only if they are compatible with the natural environment. With this conviction Dr. Braungart founded EPEA in 1987. EPEA is an independent design office and scientific research institute based in Hamburg, Germany. EPEA develops for its clients ecologically optimized product concepts. EPEA co-operates with offices worldwide, especially with the sustainable product design office MBDC in Charlottesville, Virginia.
GreenBlue Institute	GreenBlue Institute, which began as a nexus of projects at McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), was founded in November, 2002 with the conviction that a non-profit platform will allow broader leveraging of MBDC's assets into a comprehensive open-source system of resources for the widespread adoption of Cradle to Cradle® principles. GreenBlue Institute acts as a catalyst to transform the making of things - encouraging and enabling the widespread adoption and implementation of sustainable thinking and design. They provide the theoretical, technical, and information tools required to transform industry into an economically profitable, ecologically regenerative, and socially empowering activity through intelligent design.
Greenpeace	Michael Braungart formed the chemistry section of Greenpeace International
HUI Hamburger Umweltinstitut e.V.	The Hamburger Umweltinstitut e.V. (Hamburg Environmental Institute - Center for Social and Ecological Technology) is a registered, independent, non-profit organization for scientific research on environmental solutions. Environmentally sustainable solutions require social and technical cooperation as well as environmental expertise. The Hamburg Environmental Institute combines these to implement practical solutions to global environmental issues. The Institute cooperates with educational institutions, laboratories, environmental organizations, individuals, governments, and corporations worldwide.
incycle-Gesellschaft für angewandte Umwelttechnik GbR
LEUPHANA Universität Luneburg	LEUPHANA Universität Luneburg addresses the fields of applied process engineering, material flow management, and plant engineering and construction.
McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry L.L.C.	MBDC is a private sustainable product and process design consultancy co-founded by American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart in 1995. The firm's team of highly innovative staff members helps manufacturers redesign their products. This work encompasses both materials and manufacturing processes, and is designed to eliminate negative impact on the environment, communities and the economy. The work of MBDC goes well beyond eco-efficiency to restorative product design, an approach that adds value, creates new products and opens new markets. Both firms (EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung and MBDC McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry) share a common set of values that embrace intelligent, aesthetic and eco-effective design.
The China-US Center for Sustainable Development	Member 2000 - present. The China-US Center's mission is to accelerate sustainable development in China and the United States through a new form of cooperation among the business community, governments, universities, research institutions and non-governmental organizations based on nature's design principles and focused on results.
The Moderns
The Natural Step
United Nations Industrial Development Organization	(UNIDO), Senior Environment Expert, 2002 - present. The vision of UNIDO is to improve the living conditions of people and promote global prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable industrial development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
William McDonough + Partners	In co-operation with the American architect William McDonough Michael Braungart developed the Cradle to Cradle®-Design-Konzept.

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