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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.....…