FIT’s 6th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference
"Winds of Change: Making Our Mark on Sustainability"
- Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- The John Reeves Great Hall
- Seminar Rooms/Great Hall Stations
- 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tentative Schedule
| 08:15 - 09:00am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 09:15am | Welcome – Sustainability Council |
| 09:15 - 10:15am | Colin Beavan, Ph.D. - No Impact Man |
| Keynote Speaker: "No Impact Man" who went off the grid and attempted to live in the middle of New York City with as little environmental impact as possible | |
| 10:30 - 11:15 am | President’s Welcome and Remarks/President’s Panel |
| FIT Forever Green | |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Professor Debera Johnson – Director of Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design |
| Keynote Speaker: Pratt Sustainable Dorm Room project | |
| 12:30 – 1:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 – 2:00pm | Dr. Stephen Kellert: Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Scholar Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies |
| Keynote Speaker – The Human Need for Nature, Biophilia, and Design | |
| 2:15 – 3:00pm | Lorraine Smith - Sustainability Consultant |
| Keynote Speaker: Her expertise is focused on a life-cycle approach to consumer products, including textiles, groceries and electronics | |
| 3:15 – 4:15pm | Dr. Maureen Clemmons - Moving the Pyramids with Wind Power |
| Keynote Speaker – Her field research demonstrates that by harvesting the wind, ancient civilizations could have easily built their monuments. This is a technology that we are re-discovering today. | |
| 4:30 – 5:30pm | Closing remarks and announcement of Concurrent Break-out Sessions |
| Laura Siegel Laura’s brand is a high end woman’s wear collection with a commitment to sustainable practices. |
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| Alix Davidson NYC’s Regional Director of Green Festival® where individuals, business and community come together to discuss issues that impact us at home and abroad. |
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| Sustainable Interior Environments Graduate Program Students “You are what you breathe! How much do you know about sustainable materials?” |
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| FIT Professor Karen Pearson and High School of Fashion faculty Dominic Cammarota “Developing an Understanding of Sustainability by Example” |
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| Tour of FIT's Green Roof |
The Sustainability Council wishes to thank Packaging Design BFA students Andrew Chin, Corrina Hutter, and Ning Juang for developing this year's conference theme logo: “Winds of Change - Making our Mark on Sustainability”
- Ning Juang's logo was chosen for the final design.