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Participants:Kat Walsh – Living Tree Paper companyJP Kusz – Center for Sustainable EnterpriseDawn Danby – WorldChangingSteve Bishop – IDEO Key takeaways: *  51 of top 100 capitalized business are larger than countries by measure of GDP*  Changing nature of Design:     -  1 time transaction –> Annuity stream   -  Designer = socially conscious architect meeting [...]

At this year’s Net Impact conference right here in Chicago, I learned a ton and met a multitude of interesting people. I got to catch panels about Social entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsiblity, and Business and Technology for social good at the Professional Summit. I will be posting some highlights and notes from the conference since [...]

Net Impact conference 2006 Originally uploaded by quami77. The 2006 Net Impact conference is taking place in Chicago! Wow, I guess I really lucked out. I will be at the Professional Summit portion of the conference tomorrow (or I guess this morning now since its past midnight). It’s taking place at Navy Pier, and its [...]

Project Red iPod Originally uploaded by quami77. I already have an iPod. I don’t need another iPod, especially one that is smaller than the one that I have. But, this iPod is cooler. It is bright red. And Apple donates part of the profits from this iPod to fund the Global Fight against AIDS. And [...]

Whoa, I was very excited to see one of my personal heroes win the Nobel Peace Prize – Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who pinoeered MFI in the developing world is an amazing man. If you haven’t already done so, check out his book, Banker to the Poor. You *have* to hear this man’s story, as he [...]

People want to simplify their lives. Its been a consumer trend that has been going on for a while now, and its surprising to see that larger companies are attempting to take on this challenge only recently. Thank goodness– Now I will actually think like a consumer instead of a designer– I’m totally willing to [...]

AWF_blog Originally uploaded by quami77. Today I participated in the About With & For conference that took place at the East Bank Club in Chicago. It is a conference that we as ID students put on– Its a forum for academics and leaders of enterprises to discuss emerging design issues. The conference is largely focused [...]