Half-day or full-day workshops available:
- Whole System Mapping Design Method
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Biomimicry
- Measuring Sustainability
- Dematerialization (includes lightweighting and design for lifetime)
These include several presentations (below).
Custom workshops may also be requested.
Presentations available:
- Whole System Mapping
- Priorities for Sustainable Design & Business
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Choosing Greener Materials
- Biomimicry (for general audiences)
- Biomimicry for Engineers
- The Natural Step / FSSD
- Laws & Labels
- Systems Thinking
- Persuasive Design for Sustainability
- Cradle to Cradle certification
- EPEAT certification
- Priorities for Sustainable Design in Commercial Buildings
- Environmental Problem Statement
- Energy Effectiveness
- Dematerialization (includes lightweighting and design for lifetime)
- Energy Generation and Storage for Net-Zero Energy Buildings
- Green Design Tools & Strategies (general overview)
Some of these lectures are, or can be, part of larger workshops (above).
Custom presentations may also be requested.
Past presentations / workshops at conferences, schools, and businesses include:
- US National Library of Medicine, 2003
- Better World Business Forum, Paris, 2004
- Technische Universiteit Delft, Holland, 2004
- Doors of Perception, Delhi, 2005
- Antioch University, 2005
- Arup, 2006
- Sustainable Innovation, 2006
- Simon Fraser Univ., 2006
- Foo Camp, 2007
- ArquinFAD, Barcelona, 2007
- San Jose State University, 2007
- Lawrence Berkeley Labs, 2007
- UC Berkeley Extension, 2007 and 2009
- UC Berkeley, 2008
- Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, 2008
- Mattel, 2008
- Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2008 & 2010
- SolidWorks World, 2008
- Biomimicry Alumni Gathering, 2009
- ETech, 2009
- San Francisco Ignite, 2009
- Sustainable Minds, 2009
- Taipei Design Center San Francisco, 2009
- West Coast Green, 2009
- Designers Accord Summit, 2009
- Sustainable Brands, 2009
- Sustainable Brands Boot Camp, 2010
- Better Buildings – Better Business, 2010
- Action for a Sustainable America Sustainable Manufacturing Summit, 2010
- San Francisco Green Fest, 2010
- Engineers for a Sustainable World, 2010
- Esalen Institute, 2010
- Good People Share, Brazil 2010
- Project Brains, Brazil2010
- 3M, 2010
- Johnson & Johnson, 2010
- Celsius and Beyond, 2011
- American Society for Engineering Education webinar, 2011
- Taipei Design Center San Francisco, 2011
- IKEA, 2011
- GreenerMind Summit, 2011 & 2015-2018
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Budapest 2011
- Baldwin-Wallace Sustainability Symposium (keynote), 2011
- Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, 2012
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education EdMedia, 2012
- Architecture for Humanity, 2012
- UC Berkeley ME 290P, ME 290i, ME 290KA, ME 290KB, MBA 296, CEE 292A, and ME 110, 2012 – 2015
- Swissnex 3D Printing and Biomaterials, 2013
- American Society of Mech. Eng. International Design Engineering (ASME IDETC), 2013
- Ellen MacArthur CE100, London, 2013
- CleanEdge webinar, 2013
- GreenBiz VERGE, 2013 & 2016
- O’Reilly Solid, 2014
- UC Berkeley Osher Institute, 2014
- Buildwell, 2014
- EcoBalance, Tokyo 2014
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Sustainability Forum (keynote) 2014
- BizNGO, 2015
- International Conference on Research into Design (ICORD), Bangalore 2015
- International Conference on Mech. Eng. & Mfg. (ICMEM), Istanbul 2015
- Google, 2016
- The North Face, 2016
- The Gap, 2016
- Sustainable Innovation, Epsom UK 2016
- SustainableBrands, 2016
- Smart Industry (OECD), Stockholm 2016
- UC Davis, 2017
- Partnership For Academic Leadership On Sustainability Summit, 2017
- Steelcase, 2017
- LCA XVII, 2017
- VentureWell Open, 2017 & 2018
- National Academy of Inventors, 2018
- University of the Arts, 2018
- Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, 2018
- US EPA, 2018
- DESIGN Dubrovnik, 2018
- SustainableBrands, 2018
- Engineering Mechanics Institute, 2018
- Industry 4.0 – Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn 2018
- VentureWell webinar “Teaching Green: Integrating Sustainability into Your Curriculum”, 2018
- Berkeley Big Ideas Competition workshop, 2018
…and others. [last updated 2018-10-26]