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  by aleida, on March 6th, 2010
Friday’s opening session, titled Successful Entrepreneurial Approaches to the Current Green Economy was a pretty fun way to start the morning. It was a panel discussion moderated by Lilian T. Chiu, CEO of Morgan Environments and current President of the Society for Marketing Professional Services South Florida; the three panelists were Greg [...] by kevin, on February 25th, 2010Without question, Adam Werbach has noteworthy credentials. In 1996 he became the youngest-ever national president of the Sierra Club at just 23 years old. What were you doing at that age? Me, I was just out of college with little notion of what to do next. A year later he wrote a series of [...] by kevin, on February 22nd, 2010The majority of our work is for national chains. It’s rare that we design a project in our home town of Los Angeles. That can be pretty exciting, but it can also keep you separated from your local community. That became glaringly obvious to me when I recently discovered a retail venue in my [...] by kevin, on February 21st, 2010
For our seventh class, I again turned over lecture duties to the students. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the students will do three profile projects – one about materials and/or resources, one about companies and/or people, and one about certifications and/or labels. Last week they selected a company or person [...] by aleida, on February 19th, 2010
After our November sit-down with Paul Burns, the founder and chief ceramicist of Fireclay Tile, we just had to see the manufacturing process with our own eyes. He recently invited us on a tour of his showroom in San Jose, CA and his manufacturing facility in Aromas, CA. Kevin provided a [...] by kevin, on February 8th, 2010
Our fifth class was a field trip into downtown Los Angeles to visit the new showroom of InterfaceFLOR. Having seen company founder Ray C. Anderson speak just a few weeks before (posted here), we were treated to a tour and presentation of their efforts to reduce waste from every system. We did [...] by aleida, on February 3rd, 2010Image from BrightTALK web site The third session on the BrightTALK Green Building Summit line-up was Do Green Buildings Make Dollars and Sense? presented by Dave Pogue, National Director of Sustainability for CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Pogue presented the results of a nationwide study conducted over the last year which included 154 buildings, all [...] by kevin, on January 29th, 2010I recently presented this session, titled Sustainable Materials: How to Develop Your Own Library, as part of the one day Green Building Summit hosted [...] by aleida, on January 21st, 2010Last year we were introduced to BrightTALK http://www.brighttalk.com/, a service that offers live, interactive webinars on a variety of topics, and it’s all free. Aside from multiple channels, they also organize virtual Summits that focus on a specific industry or market. Next week, on Thursday, January 28, 2010, from 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., BrightTALK will [...] by aleida, on January 4th, 2010On our last day in the Bay Area we were welcomed into the manufacturing facility of Vetrazzo, LLC by Karen Righthand, VP of Marketing, and John Sabol, VP of Manufacturing. The company is based in Richmond, CA and makes a solid surfacing material marketed as Vetrazzo that is composed of 83% recycled glass aggregate added to [...] |
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