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I thought it would be a nice idea to list ‘The Best Of… Cradle to Cradle Chronology‘, so here it is:

1. William McDonough & Michael Braungart publish their book ‘Cradle to Cradle; Remaking the Way We Make Things‘ (2002, April 22).
2. Release of the movie ‘The Next Industrial Revolution; William McDonough, Michal Braungart, and the birth of the Sustainable Economy (2001).
3. Rob van Hattum / VPRO Tegenlicht broadcasts ‘Afval = Voedsel’ (English) on Dutch television (Dutch video) (English video) (2006, October 2).
4. William McDonough speaks at TED 2005 ‘The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle‘ (2005, February 26).
5. Michael Braungart lectures at Stanford University ‘The Promise of the Next Industrial Revolution: Cradle to Cradle Design‘ (audio) (slides) and ‘Cradle to Cradle Design: A New Driver of Business Innovation‘ by Michael Braungart at Stanford University (audio) (slides) (2005, February 15-16).
6. ‘The Story of Stuff‘, a movie from Annie Leonard (2007, December 4).
7. The Atlantic publishes ‘The NEXT Industrial Revolution‘ by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (1998, October).
8. William McDonough speaks at Bioneers 2000 ‘Designing the Next Industrial Revolution’ (script) (video) (2000, October).
9. William McDonough at Vanderbilt University (video) (2006, September 26).
10. Michael Braungart speaks at the RSA concerning their Manifesto Challenge: Moving towards a Zero Waste Society (transcript) (2005, November 9).
11. Planet Prosperity Foundation organizes the ‘Let’s Cradle Congres‘ in Maastricht, The Netherlands (video’s) (2007, November 1-2).
12. William McDonough writes ‘Waste Equals Food; Our Future and the Making of Things‘ (pdf) (Edited from a speech given at the Environmental Forum for Business in April 1997, in Spokane, Washington) (1997, April).
13. McDonough @ Zeitgeist ‘07 (video) (2007, October).
14. Corporate Environmental Strategy: International Journal of Corporate Sustainability (Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 251-25 publishes ‘Design for the Triple Top Line: New Tools for Sustainable Commerce‘ by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (here too) (excerpt as monthly feature story on MBDC here) (2002, August).
15. McDonough speaking at the working session on accelerating green building, at the Clinton Global Initiative (video 1, video 2) (2007, September 27).
16. Journal of Cleaner Production publishes article ‘Cradle-to-cradle design: creating healthy emissions – a strategy for eco-effective product and system design‘ by Michael Braungart, William McDonough and Andrew Bollinger (Earlier published in a special issue ‘Approaching zero emissions‘) (2007, September).
17. The official Cradle to Cradle Community (forum and blog) is launched (2007, November 7).
18. NPR Webcast: William McDonough The ‘Utopian’ Architect (audio) (2002, April 24).
19. William McDonough gives presentation ‘Building the Future: The AEC Industry’ (audio) at Autodesk University (reactions) (2007, November 28).
20. William McDonough spoke at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) about how the use of technology is integral to its creation, application and value (video) (2005, October 28).
21. The Monticello Dialogues, Part 1: Democratic Design and Part 2: A Revolution in Thinking and Part 3: Design as Celebration (2001, May), Part 4: The Rebirth of the Commons and Part 5: Designing Peace (2002, April) and Part 6: Cradle to Cradle; Going Green (2003, May).
22. VPRO Tegenlicht broadcasts ‘Afval is Voedsel Deel 2; Een revolutie in Nederland‘ on Dutch Television (Dutch video) (2007, November 26).

(These sources are all marked in the chronology).

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