Science and Technology for a Sustainable World

PARC’s current speaker series, “Science and Technology for a Sustainable World” explores technologies that can allow humanity to live productively without causing significant ecological damage to natural systems. Speakers include experts in renewable energy and green buildings, and those involved in launching and funding sustainable technology companies. Through interactions with the speakers and co-sponsoring organizations, PARC researchers are working to understand the “hard problems” in this field. They hope to raises awareness about sustainable technologies and determine if and how this area is aligned with PARC research and commercialization interests.

Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:00pm
Nathan S. Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:00pm
Michael Braungart
Co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:00pm
David Gottfried
President, WorldBuild Technologies
Founder, Green Building Council and
Author of Greed to Green

Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:00pm
Barbara Waugh
Co-founder World eInclusion, HP
Author of "The Soul in the Computer: the Story of a Corporate Revolutionary"

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:00pm (note earlier time)
Jim Koch
Founding Director, Center for Science,
Technology, and Society Professor of Management,
Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Thursday, April 7, 2005 4:00pm
Tim Woodward
Managing Director, Nth Power

Email contacts for speakers and sponsors

This series is free and open to the public.

All presentations will take place at
George E. Pake Auditorium
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 9430

Driving directions and map to PARC