Douglas Mulhall is a globally experienced transition manager and researcher who has launched technologies and organizations in Brazil, China, France, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. He has been a significant contributor to “Cradle to Cradle” methods and has trained personnel to apply them practically, especially in developing economies. As manager with Hamburg Environmental Institute he initiated projects in Europe, Bangladesh and China and built one of the few operational demonstration projects for the 1992 ”Rio Earth Summit”; the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Together with Prof. Michael Braungart and others he co-founded The Environmental Institute in Brazil, which is recognized for water recycling management and poverty alleviation throughout Latin America. As Managing Director of EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung he contributed to the “Intelligent Product System,” the Hannover Principles of Design, and managed the “TOP 50” evaluation of chemical companies, which together evolved into the “Cradle to Cradle” methodology (C2C). He was the first manager to apply “social equity” aspects of C2C in developing economies.
Douglas Mulhall co-founded and was General Director of ICTV, the first commercial television network in the Republic of Ukraine and the first network in that newly independent nation to broadcast western environmental and science programming. ICTV was an early step in transiting the Republic of Ukraine to a market economy. This communications approach was consistent with Douglas Mulhall’s earlier production of award-winning documentary films on environment and development while working as a community developer teaching thousands of families to organize, build and operate their own energy-efficient homes. He spent a decade developing commercial co-operatives in Canada.
In the healthcare field he was co-founder and General Director of Children of Chernobyl to train doctors in treating Chernobyl victims, and subsequently coordinated research on molecularly precise pharmaceuticals, lecturing for example to the National Institute of Medicine and USEPA on molecular medicine. In the related field of molecular technology his book, “Our Molecular Future,” pioneered groundbreaking concepts including potential applications of C2C methods to molecular manufacturing, and vice-versa. It describes how the transition to nanotechnology, genetics, robotics and artificial intelligence could protect society from natural threats such as hurricanes and tsunami. It describes “Nanoecology,” where molecular manufacturing and ecology intersect, as well as rapid adaptation to environmental extremes. For those transitional concepts New Scientist magazine selected Our Molecular Future for its “must-read” list. Douglas Mulhall’s related articles are published on four continents, including in the first technical encyclopedia on nanotechnology. His hundreds of media interviews have reached tens of millions of viewers and listeners. He sits on the advisory board of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and has lectured to various groups on the risks and benefits of molecular manufacturing. He is the co-inventor of designs for a floating micromechanical tsunami detector.
Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT)
Fac. of Social Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam
