WiserEarth Suggestions

Jeremy Faludi is a freelance product designer, engineer, and researcher, specializing in eco-design. He has done green design and consulting for Rocky Mountain Institute, The Biomimicry Institute, Chorus Motors, and the Applications Team at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, among others. He also does conventional design and engineering for other clients, working on anything from furniture to cinema equipment. He has been featured on Treehugger, and a bicycle he helped design was displayed in the Cooper-Hewitt national design museum's exhibit, "Design for the other 90%".

 

In addition to his design work, he writes for Worldchanging.com and is one of the many authors of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. He has also had his articles printed in Samsung's DigitALL magazine and the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations's newsletter Commonwealth Today.

Jeremy has spoken at conferences, schools, and businesses around the world, including the Doors of Perception conference in Delhi, the Better World Business Forum in Paris, the IEEE's International Electric Machines & Drives Conference in Texas, the National Library of Medicine in Washington D.C., Antioch University in Seattle, Simon Fraser University, Arup in San Francisco, and Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands. He started the Cascadia chapter of the o2 international sustainable design network.

Originally trained as a physicist at Reed College, he spent some time in the semiconductor industry before getting his masters in product design at Stanford. Although too frenetic to be tied down to a short list of interests, his main dalliances outside of design are photography, dance, and several flavors of performance, some of which involve fire. (Those are usually the biggest hits at parties.)