Commonstudio is an emerging design practice engaging in interdisciplinary approaches to objects, systems, tools, and spaces with an emphasis on issues of urban ecology, social enterprise, and adaptive reuse. Greenaid is an initiative that converts gumball machines into seedbomb dispensers for a more fun and accessible way to beautify the…
Juha Koponen has a D.Sc. degree in Technical Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, (2000) and he was a research fellow in Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany where he conducted experiments with a fusion reactor. He also worked in 1994 for a few months in CERN, Switzerland doing diagnostics software for the…
Romain Gaillard was born in Paris, France. After obtaining a master’s degree at EDHEC Business School and at LSE, he started working between San Francisco and Toronto. Over the years in Silicon Valley, he participated in several ventures as adviser or co-founder. From Web advertising and social networks to security…
Pat Ford was born in Nebraska in 1948 and grew up in Idaho. He attended Columbia University in New York City and fled just short of graduation into some years of hibernation. At some point the Idahoan by accident became one by choice. He went to work for the Idaho…
Meet Pat Ford – Executive Director of Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
Scott Hed is the founder and Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska (SAA). The SAA is a program of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, an Anchorage-based non-profit. Scott’s background isn’t what one would typically expect when thinking of someone involved in conservation advocacy. But it’s a neat story. Scott grew…
Meet Scott Hed – Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska
Ryan Cruse is an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist who is constantly trying to blur the lines between fun, work and doing good. He is the co-founder and director of outreach and education for Warm Current, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote fun, learning and sense of place by distributing…
Jim Moriarty is the CEO of the Surfrider Foundation and an innovative leader in the environmental and action sports communities. From a skateboarding punk-rock kid to an architect of the early days of e-commerce, Moriarty is obsessed with building companies and organizations around notable and world-altering ideas. Jim’s job as…
Bill Staby is the founder and chief executive officer of Boston-based Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. (“RME”) — a developer of technologies for harvesting energy from ocean waves. Bill is an experienced manager of early-stage technology companies. His entrepreneurial career started in 1997, when he was co-founder of an Internet floral delivery…
Adam Bernholz really likes the idea that the more successful his company is, the more he benefits the environment, or at least decreases our society’s destruction of it. Approximately five years ago, Adam realized that the “built environment”, meaning the manufacture, transportation, use, and disposal of building products, was far…
Born and raised on a small ranch in Brazil, Steffany Boldrini was destined to become a future green entrepreneur. An environmentalist at heart, her love and passion for nature was awakened by her mother at a very young age. She instilled many of the “green values” that drove Steffany’s curiosity…
Jordan Gottlieb never did well working for other people. He was diagnosed with ADHD when he was 10 years old and anyone who tried to manage him realized pretty quickly that he was going to be making his own way in this world. Talking with some of his close friends…