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Stanford Conference on Sustainability

You are all invited to an conference on sustainability that our d.school class -- Clicks-n-Bricks: Creating Mass Market Experiences -- is hosting this Thursday on the Stanford campus. The next project that will be tackled by our class focuses on how to create excitement, build networks, and spread knowledge within Wal-Mart about their current sustainability initiatives.

The speakers will include:

Debra Dunn, former HP Executive Vice-President who (among other things) led their sustainability efforts.
Bob Adams, who leads IDEO's sustainability efforts.
Andrew Ruben, Wal-Mart's VP of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability.

Debra and Bob are fantastic speakers! I suspect Andrew will great as well.

Here are the particulars:

What is Designing for Sustainability?
d.school Mini-Conference Fall 2006
3:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Hewlett 200

Please join us!

Also, I attach a great poster done by d.school Fellow Alex Ko.

Download d.school mini-conference.pdf

October 22, 2006 in d.school | Permalink

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Bob -

You're making me wish I lived in California! Will you tape this or offer it online at some point?

Ann

Posted by: ann michael | October 23, 2006 at 06:22 AM

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