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Alexander Rose
Executive Director of Foundation for the Long Now.
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March 15, 2009.
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Robin Chase
Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, an innovative
car sharing service, and is currently the CEO of GoLoco.org, a venture
combining online carpooling and social networking. She is also founder
of Meadow Networks, a transportation consulting firm, and maintains a
blog Network Musings on the topics of climate change, transportation,
and wireless networks.
Chase has been frequently featured in the major media including the
Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Newsweek
and Time magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She
has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor’s Award
for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, Business
Week’s top 10 designers, Fast Company’s Fast 50 Champions of
Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and
InfoWorld magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national,
state and local governments and organizations.
Chase graduated from Wellesley College and MIT’s Sloan School of
Management, and won the competitive Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design.
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October 23, 2008.
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Rives
Rives (rhymes with ‘weaves’) designs interactive narratives for grown-
ups. Part poet, part storyteller, Rives offers audiences uniquely
intelligent and creative entertainment—impossible to categorize for a
print medium like this bio. He’s extraordinarily deft with words,
extremely clever, creative, and intellectually alive. His work bursts
in multiple directions, makes surprising connec tions, and leaves you
gasping and laughing. For his avid use of technology, he’s been called
“the first 2.0 poet,” incorporating images, video, and text, often
involving audience members.
Rives is the co-host of Bravo channel’s new show Ironic Iconic
America, a unique and whimsical tour of contempo rary American culture
debuting October 3, 2008. He is a regular at the annual TED
Conference, where he earns standing ovations. He’s appeared at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on the last four seasons of HBO’s Def
Poetry Jam. He was the 2004 National Poetry Slam champion.
Rives’s clients include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hallmark, Wieden
+Kennedy, Business Objects, Northwestern Univer sity, and the House of
Blues.
www.shopliftwindchimes.com
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October 8, 2008.
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Adam Lowry
There’s nothing new about making lemonade out of lemons. But giving true brand panache to mundane products like soaps and household cleaners? Now that’s an accomplishment. And Adam Lowry and his partner, Eric Ryan, have done it. Method Products, their household-cleaning products company, is generating sales at a $40-million annual run rate after less than five years in business.
Adam graduated in chemical engineering from Stanford, which is impressive enough. But after stints as 1) a researcher at a “green” plastics company in Michigan , 2) a climate-change researcher with a think tank, and 3) a member of the U.S. sailing training team for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Adam was ready to tap his inner entrepreneur.
He and Eric had been high-school buddies in suburban Detroit and were roomies in San Francisco. And on a long drive one day they began talking about hum-drum product categories that could be transformed through fresh thinking about product design and formulation – presumably, theirs. “I knew as a chemical engineer that there was no reason we couldn’t design products that were non-toxic and used natural ingredients,” Adam says. “It would be more expensive to do it that way. But that was okay as long as we created a brand that had a ‘premiumness’ about it, where our margins would support our extra investments in product development and high quality ingredients.”
Adam and Eric came up with a complete line of cleaners and soaps, each one for a different room in the house. Now they have more than 100 products under the Method Home brand umbrella. “We’ve crafted a master brand in home care,” Adam says.
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May 8, 2008.