January 26, 2010

Re:purpose

Zoë Keating

Zoë Keating

Armed with just her cello and a small box of electronics, Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She records layer upon layer of cello, her feet dancing over an array of pedals to transform her solo performances into multipart works. 
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Melissa Kushner

Melissa Kushner

Melissa Kushner is the founder of Goods for Good. She'll reveal how the power to dramatically increase school attendance and improve the future of thousands – potentially millions of children – can be found in the excess goods sitting in corporate supply storerooms.
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Jeff Seabright

Jeff Seabright

Jeff Seabright is Vice President of Environment & Water Resources for The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to corporate life, Jeff worked in government, including in The White House as Executive Director of the Climate Change Task Force. He'll help us explore how companies are discovering the power to improve things through their core business as well as the networks that underpin them.
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Kevin Salwen

Kevin & Hannah Salwen

Kevin Salwen is a writer and entrepreneur. With his 15-year-old daughter, Hannah, he is co-author or The Power of Half. The book is the story of a eureka moment by Hannah that resulted in the Salwen family's commitment to reduce their consumption by half – started by selling their house and moving into one half its size.
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Ellen Dunham-Jones

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Ellen Dunham-Jones teaches architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2009). She studies built examples of dead big box stores, malls, office parks, subdivisions etc. that have been redeveloped, re-inhabited or regreened into more sustainable, healthy places.
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Matthias Hollwich

Matthias Hollwich

Matthias Hollwich is principal of HOLLWICHKUSHNER, LLC, a New York City based architecture and concept design firm. He is also co-founder of Architizer, a social networking platform connecting architects via their designs. Matthias is driven by the aim to upgrade man-made environments on a human and engaging scale with an ECONIC twist.
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Steve Mugiri

Steve Mugiri

A writer and editor of AfriGadget, Steve Mugiri provides a platform on which the appropriate use of technology and African ingenuity in its application can be showcased. The typical story on AfriGadget represents the reality of what people are doing every day: working hard to find solutions to their daily problems that they can put in place for themselves.
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Adam Kalkin

Adam Kalkin

Artist and architect Adam Kalkin’s repurposed shipping container homes are encouraging people to think — quite literally — out of the box. He reuses shipping containers to create scalable, flexible, industrial-style homes at reasonable prices, creating scalable solutions for everything from disaster relief housing to luxury homes.
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