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Following is a guest post and special offer from CompostModern Executive Director Donald W. Savoie. Thank you Donald!

From Donald:

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On the weekend of January 22-23, design minds from around the world will convene to express, explore and expand their practices in sustainable design at the CompostModern Conference 2011 -- "Fertile Ground for Building a Sustainable World".  Check it out!

On Saturday the 22nd, a huge lineup of design leaders will speak to their experience and share their wisdom at the Herbst…

Happy New Year!  And an important new year it is...

Last month, I had the pleasure of bringing, by invitation, a powerful map for the future to the Sustainable Silicon Valley's (SSV) Water-Energy-Smart-Technology (WEST) Summit.  The map I'm talking about is the…

The SMART innovation community has richly gifted Silicon Valley this holiday season -- from the Clean Tech Open Awards Gala in November, to the Sustainable Silicon Valley WEST Summit in December, to the just-launched…

The SMART innovation community of Silicon Valley is leading our systems and infrastructures forward, for the challenges and conditions of the 21st Century. By doing so, they are building our today, and ensuring our future. Theirs is a most important gift. Please consider giving back to this community. Your tax-deductible donation, and/or your supportive sponsorship, can make all the difference in the world.…

At their recent annual Summit, Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) launched a powerful new resource, the SSV Eco-Cloud network. Check it out at…

On December 6th at Stanford University, Sustainable Silicon Valley held their annual Summit, where Silicon Valley businesses come together to take stock of their progress on the path to sustainability, and to inspire the work for the coming year.



The focus of this year's summit, appropriately, was…



The Clean Tech Open's annual Awards Gala has become one of my favorite annual events.



Each year, finalists and alumni winners, from across Northern…

SMART professionals --

Happy Thanksgiving Day eve! In acknowledgement of the recent nearly 60-40 bipartisan defeat of Prop. 23, reconfirming California's landmark climate action legislation, AB 32, I take a moment now TO BE GRATEFUL.

Thank you, everyone!

Cheers,…

Thank you for joining us here at InnovatingSMART, as we move forward in our mission to connect young professionals with today's SMART innovators.

We are now pairing our video stories with excerpted quotes, which highlight key take-aways shared by our Innovators. Soon, we will create a podcast library, through which we will make these "Innovations", as well as our upcoming "Conversations", available for…

In the recent Silicon Valley "SMARTCamp" competition which concluded on September 9th at the Quadrus Center on Sand Hill Road, IBM selected not one but two winners, chosen from five local finalists.…

Great minds think alike, and “SMART” is the word of the moment.…

Welcome! This, our Grand Opening of InnovatingSMART, is dedicated to you

... our SMART Innovators, for beings early adopters of our un-tested process

... our SMART Sponsors…

We begin our work with a citizen-journalism mentality in mind. We want to encourage young professionals everywhere to be on the lookout for large and small examples of SMART innovation, and we want them to share their discoveries with us.

To seed our story network, we have focused on in-depth, formal interviews with our Innovators, exploring with them the business, technical and human…

We at InnovatingSMART have been on a wonder-full journey together, and we look forward to the path ahead.

I initiated this journey by viewing InnovatingSMART itself as an innovation:

• As with most innovative ideas, my idea for a social-media enabled knowledge-base on sustainability-driven innovation percolated for over a year, while I was working as an "innovation advocate" and program director for the…

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR.....…