Companies:

EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
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.
 

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 of 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.
 

Organizations:

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.
 

GreenBlue Institute
GreenBlue, 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 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.

Universities:

LEUPHANA Universität Luneburg, the LEUPHANA Universität Luneburg addresses the fields of applied process engineering, material flow management, and plant engineering and construction.

 
Darden Graduate School of Business, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Visiting Professor 2002-present.

Other Affiliations:

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.

The China-US Center for Sustainable Development, member 2000-present.

The China-US Centere'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.

Greenpeace, Formed the Chemistry Section of Greenpeace International