Jorden Segraves - Principal - Jorden Segraves Architect

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Jorden inspires with real solutions to recapturing waste streams through product innovation. He also lays down the cold hard facts between us and sustainability, and how that leads to opportunity

Nathan VanHook - Art Director - Body Glove Wetsuits

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Nathan discusses the eco-wetsuits and life jackets made by Body Glove. He also points out some interesting conundrums between the impact of the product, and the impact of its use.

Sara Louise Todd - Senior Design Analyst - frog design

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Sara talks about what it takes for frog to bring sustainability into their practice, with multiple locations around the world.

Heidrun Mumper-Drumm - Adjunct Associate Professor - Art Center

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Heidrun lays down the call to action, and the need for leadership in green design. She also highlights sustainable initiatives and student projects at Art Center College of Design.

Bob Adams - Sustainability Lead - IDEO

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Bob gets to the crux of the matter, how “heat, beat and treat” is the added value in most product design, providing incentive to do more damage to the planet. How do we flip that? Some golden nuggets in this presentation…

Dawn Danby - Sustainable Design Consultant - Autodesk

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Dawn highlights the challenges sustainable designers face working with old school engineers and builders.

Yves Béhar - Founder - fuseproject

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Yves breaks down the real opportunity for green designers, right now.

Debbie Driscoll - Sustainability Group Account Director - Ziba

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Debbie shows how to position your brand in a sustainable market. She also covers Ziba latest project, green condo building for the creative class in downtown Portland.

Andrew Personette - Executive Director - EcoSystems

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Why do the social habits of humans inadvertently destroy our ability to exist on this planet, and how can design steer us in a sustainable direction? That and some hard core sustainable furniture frameworks are covered in this presentation.

Peter Kallen - Men’s Products Design Director - Nau

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Peter takes us to the root of Nau, the outdoor clothing company, including how sustainability is written into its corporate bylaws.

Richard Whitehall - Director of Industrial Design - Smart Design

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Richard keeps it simple, with a better wooden spoon. Smart.

Adam Richardson - Strategy Director - frog design

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Adam takes us through the material history of the world and the evolution of design practice.

Marc Stoiber - Founder - Change

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Do you really need 5 more flavors of Mr. Clean? Marc discusses the power of story telling to communicate green product advantages.

Arunas Oslapas - Associate Professor - WWU

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Highlights of WWU Sustainable design projects including public transportation and landfill theme parks.

Sophia Wang Traweek - Co-founder - o2 Cascadia

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Where is away? What is biomimicry? Just how do we design green products?

Video Teaser

Quick highlights from the San Francisco event. This video includes three of the four panelists: Dawn Danby - a consultant working at Autodesk, Bob Adams from IDEO, and Yves Béhar of Fuseproject.