A Better World by Design brings a global community of innovators to Providence, Rhode Island, to reach across disciplines and unite under a common goal. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives. A Better World by Design is an immersive experience that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology, and enterprise to reshape our communities and sustain our environment.
Ross Evans at TED Active
Ross Evans a serial social entrepreneur whom I invited to the Better World by Design Conference who brought his successful bike company Xtracycles. He also invented “Bike Surfing”. He have multiple talents from cycling, entrepreneurship to rodeo performances. His challenge to young people is to find their passion and use it to make positive change at his new initiative Holishift
Inventions can be for fun
The Design Revolution Road Show goes live
Emily Pilloton, a friend who we invited to come to the first Better World by Design, came back to speak at the conference a second time, and this time she gave us a preview into what she was about to do for the next 3 months of her life. Having started Project-H, a humanitarian design organization that applies industrial design skills to projects around the world in developing nations, she have decided to showcase the work for the world to see. She will be driving an 60s airstream to 25 school, in 75 days, 6300 mile across the United States from school to school as an exhibition on wheels. The goal is to educated students along the way and spark awareness and interest in applying their design skills for the greater good. The exhibition includes 40 humanitarian projects from her book Design Revolution.
Visit Design Revolution Road Show | Project H Design
Hopenhagen.org
At the Opportunity Green Conference watching Freya Williams talking about creating a movement leading up the global environmental summit in Copenhagen – Hopenhagen. Creating meaningful partnerships along the way including the city of Copenhagen, learn more about the project at http://hopenhagen.org/
Opportunity Green – Understanding Sustainability
“Sustainability” is probably the most talked about, the biggest buzz word in the last decade. We all use it, we talk about it, companies talk about, but what does it really mean? What does ”Sustainability” really mean? Hearing Len Sauers, VP ofsustainability of Procter and Gamble talk about sustainability as a responsibility rather than just the cool thing to do. Educating consumers and creating the lease path of resistants to achieve “sustainability”.
More to come from this 2 day conference.
Solar Decathlon 2009
Solar Decathlon is a great venue for students to put what they learnt in Architecture school into reality, transforming knowledge into self-sufficent housing units powered by the sun.
via ArchDaily
The Solar Decathlon 2009 competition ends tomorrow, and 7 out of 10 contests have been already completed, with Team California on the lead with the Refract House.
The results so far are:
- Architecture, won by Team California (SCU + CCA)
- Market Viability, won by University of Louisiana
- Engineering, TBA
- Lighting Design, TBA
- Communications, won by Team California (SCU+CCA)
- Comfort Zone, won by Team Ontario/BC
- Hot Water, won by RICE (tied with Cornell and Illinois)
- Appliances, won by Illinois
- Home Entertainment, won by Illinois
- Net Metering, TBA
The Solar Decathlon is open to the public starting today, until Oct 18th.
Virginia Tech
Team Alberta
Team Germany
Team Puerto Rico