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I hope this happens soon. Bill McDonough promised a free public list of ingredients at his TED talk four years ago and nothing has been made available.
I'm concerned about the
I'm concerned about the legitimacy of this program after reading this article about Bill McDonough:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/130/the-mortal-messiah.html?page=3%2C0
Transparency and openness a must for credibility
In order to be credible, green product certification programs must comply with international standards such as ISO (for environmental labelling, life cycle assessment and others). They must also be developed in a transparent, open and inclusive process based on a consensus of balanced interests. Proprietary programs like Cradle to Cradle, with their "black box" techniques end up hurting the sustainability movement by making them all too easy targets for "greenwashing" and conflict of interest claims.
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