Partners & associations

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the voice of the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design. IDSA's mission is threefold:

• Lead the profession by expanding our horizons, connectivity and influence, and our service to members
• Inspire design quality and responsibility through professional development and education
• Elevate the business of design and improve our industry's value

theRightenvironment quantifies environmental performance based on life cycle assessment (LCA) approaches. The focus is on creative ways to make things work better and more effectively, and more importantly, make the right choices with no hidden trade-offs.  At theRightenvironment, the right questions are asked. The team enjoys working together to shape ambitious agenda that just make sense. The goal is real sustainable performance, making sure that things add up. The company’s sustainability services provide clients with a state-of-the-art compass for decisions making.

Sustainable Manufacturing Consulting offers its expertise and services to small and medium sized manufacturing companies interested in incorporating sustainability principles, methods and tools in their business strategy, business processes and decision-making. Our approach is based on and strongly supports scientific discovery, engineering work and technological innovation.

In late June 2007, the Designers Accord was founded with the goal of changing the way the creative community does business. Designers, educators, and business leaders adopted a “Kyoto Treaty” of design (later renamed the Designers Accord) that specified a particular ethos and behavior around sustainable design. The underlying philosophy of this agreement was that by collectively building our intelligence around issues of climate change and humanitarian issues – and tackling those challenges with optimism and creativity – we would catalyze innovative and sustainable problem solving throughout the creative community.

The Design and Sustainability Symposium, part of COFES, explores the intersection of design, simulation, and sustainability for the built (AEC) and manufactured environment.

COFES is a unique gathering of individuals from companies representing a wide variety of industry sectors, each with significant interest in software used to design the world around us. The DaS Symposium exists within that community to focus on how design software can facilitate the visibility of sustainability issues at the design stage. The goal of the DaS Symposium is to raise the issues that need to be addressed and to identify areas of common ground that may be best served by collaborative, rather than competitive solutions.

Founding members of The DaS Symposium include Autodesk, Building Smart Alliance, CIFE, Cyon Research, Gensler, Phoenix Integration, PTC, Siemens, SolidWorks, and Sustainable Minds.

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Strategic Sustainability Consulting provides under-resourced organizations with the tools and expertise needed to understand and manage their social and environmental impacts. Through sustainability assessments, green office auditing, supply chain management, stakeholder consultations, sustainability disclosure and social marketing, SSC helps organizations embrace their larger societal responsibilities and be the good corporate citizens to which they aspire. Find out more at http://www.sustainabilityconsulting.com.