Below is a list of suggested speakers for sustainability-related events. Please use this list as a resource and consider using speakers who are local or regional to reduce carbon emissions and save on travel costs for your event. Jim Ales, Monterey Bay Aquarium Marc Alt, Marc Alt + Partners Rolan Atwood, Director of Community Relations, American Apparel Eric [...]

Calling all do-gooders! Join AIGA Charlotte for the Design for Good Poster Show November 4th at Dialect Gallery to celebrate how design can ignite positive change in the community! AIGA Charlotte launched it’s Design for Good Poster Initiative , back in September, by challenging designers to create a poster that will inform Charlotte area citizens about environmental and social [...]

Design for Good is an AIGA initiative that employs the power of creativity and design to improve the human experience culturally, socially, environmentally and economically. It aims to channel designers, and their creative talent, toward community needs and demonstrate how design and design thinking can make a difference. For our next AIGA Charlotte event, the Design for [...]

Have you ever wanted to incorporate sustainable design into a project but didn’t know how or where to begin? Are you curious about what kinds of criteria make up a certified sustainable design and/or product? Do you want to learn techniques that you can implement in your daily design life and process? Then join us [...]

Green Building Focus is pleased to announce the East Coast Regional Green Building Focus Conference & EXPO will be hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 20th – 21st, 2011. Over the course of two days, the world’s top professional experts, leading researchers and most respected educators will gather at the Charlotte Convention Center to engage [...]

Green Drinks Charlotte, Sierra Club Central Piedmont Group and the Charlotte Green Team will be hosting a FREE screening of Trashed at the Belk® High Octane Theatre inside the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The movie investigates the garbage business, one of the fastest growing industries in North America, and examines the American waste stream, how it’s [...]

Join us as Ann Willoughby, President and Chief Creative Officer of Willoughby Design, introduces our Charlotte chapter to The Living Principles, a framework that aims to clarify the multiple, interrelated dimensions of sustainability and guide purposeful action in everyday design and business practice. Drawing from decades of collective wisdom, theory and results, the framework weaves environmental, [...]

Join us at Uptown’s Harvest Moon Grille with Ann Willoughy, President and Chief Creative Officer of Willoughby Design. We’ll have an intimate roundtable discussion with Ann about her deep knowledge of sustainability and design while enjoying a farm-to-fork lunch with food that’s in season and obtained from small independently-owned farms within a 100 mile radius. Cost: This [...]

You design a killer brochure, you prep it and sent it off, and a week later you are holding the beautiful finished piece. But did you think about using recycled paper or how much paper got wasted with the run? Did you think about what type of inks were used, how much ink waste was produced [...]

Let’s Do Lunch and Design for a More Sustainable World Join AIGA Charlotte for the first Eat Your Greens of 2011. Come have lunch and mingle with fellow environmentally conscious creatives and participate in an open discussion about integrating sustainable design solutions into our projects and everyday lives, making better design resource choices and using our skills [...]

AIGA Charlotte Presents Eat Your Greens :: Recycling Center Tour. A discussion about sustainable and socially responsible design in Charlotte. So you have your new jolly green giant bin that allows you to recycle more materials from empty aerosol cans to juice cartons, but where does it all go? Does it just disappear and become a shiny new [...]