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The Breathing Building

The weekend of 14th-16th October marked the official opening of Venlo’s new City Hall, the newest building designed following the Cradle to Cradle principles. The municipality of Venlo considers Cradle to Cradle as an innovative economic design principle, with the highest possible positive benefits as a result. Therefore Venlo has also kicked off the ‘Cradle to Cradle Year’, which aims to get the wider public in the region familiar and involved with the Cradle to Cradle concept. The Frankfurter Rundschau published a cover story on the official opening.

 

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Gala Spa Awards honoured Michael Braungart

On 2 April 2016, the jury of the Gala Spa Awards 2016 honoured EPEA´s CEO Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart for his dedication to promote eco-effectiveness with the "Special Prize".

Award for developing the Cradle to Cradle-design concept
Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart has been awarded for his work in the areas of resource conservation and eco-effectiveness, for his outstanding commitment to support innovation, research and high quality products and for the development of the Cradle to Cradle-design concept.

Grand gala with over 200 guests from business, culture and entertainment
Also, the internationally famous top model Naomi Campbell has been awarded in the category "Beauty Idol". For the gala gathered more than 200 invited guests from business, culture and show business as well as renowned representatives from the cosmetic and luxury hotel industries.

About the Gala Spa Awards
Together with the Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa the premium people and lifestyle magazine GALA has awarded this year´s Gala Spa Awards. The price is one of the most important beauty and spa awards worldwide.

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EPEA presents Cradle to Cradle at 15th Biennale di Venezia

For the first time, EPEA and its CEO Prof. Michael Braungart will present Cradle to Cradle at La Biennale di Venezia, International Architecture Exhibition. As this year’s motto “Reporting from the Front” matches perfectly with the work of EPEA, Prof. Michael Braungart has been invited by the director Alejandro Aravena, a multiple award-winning Chilean architect, to present the Cradle to Cradle design concept in the exhibition rooms in the Central Pavilion (Giardini).

Reporting from the Front
The Biennale is a great opportunity to explore the meaning of beneficial buildings with practical examples, and an ideal place to shake things up a bit, where the status quo cannot be accepted.  Alejandro Aravena explains the motto: “Reporting from the front will be about sharing the work of people who are scrutinizing the horizon, looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, natural disasters, waste, pollution and participation of communities, with a broader audience”.  

Encourage positively defined innovation
The battle to free us from design errors and encourage positively defined innovation is underway. EPEA and Prof. Michael Braungart have been operating on this front line for decades. Still more time, and courageous decisions, are needed to bring about a new industrial revolution in society. With the Cradle to Cradle design concept we can change the built environment and make buildings like trees and cities like forests. Instead of becoming less bad or reducing our footprint, it is possible to make buildings beneficial for humans and our environment: healthy material banks which clean the air and water, and support biodiversity and ecosystems. In this way, we can truly celebrate our positive human footprint.