292: Cradle to Cradle: Creating a Circular Economy

<div>Learn about our Master Facilitator community: <a href="https://www.theartofconstruction.net/master-facilitators-about">https://www.theartofconstruction.net/master-facilitators-about</a> <br> and sign up at: <br> <a href="https://login.circle.so/checkout/master-facilitator?request_host=community.theartofconstruction.net">https://login.circle.so/checkout/master-facilitator?request_host=community.theartofconstruction.net</a><br> <br> Questions? Email scott@theaoc.us <br> <br> Ren DeCherney, Built Environment Lead at Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, joins us for episode 292 of Art of Construction. <br> <br> The <strong><em>Cradle to Cradle Products</em></strong> Innovation <strong><em>Institute</em></strong> is a non-profit organization created to bring about a large scale transformation in the way we make things. Through the <a href="https://www.c2ccertified.org/get-certified/product-certification">Cradle to Cradle Certified® Products Program</a>, the Institute sets the global standard for products that are safe, circular and made responsibly. Cradle to Cradle Certified® is used by future-focused designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers across the value chain to innovate and optimize materials and products according to the world’s most advanced science-based measures for material health, product circularity, renewable energy and climate, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.<br> <br> Ren is a licensed Interior Designer who jumped ship into healthy materials. She's here to make the building industry a sustainable one! Join Devon, Matt, and Ren as they learn about the origins of the cradle to cradle design philosophy, what it takes for a building material to be certified, the benefits healthier materials bring to contractors and the trades, and what it will take to reach a fully circular economy in construction.</div>