Valerie Casey, founder of the Designers Accord, will be speaking about “Sustainability by Design: Moving from Solving Problems to Preventing Them” at the Environmental Grantmakers Association Retreat in upstate New York.

Doug Solomon and Gentry Underwood recently presented at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. In their session on “Knowledge Sharing by Design,” they ask, “How can we empower project teams to communicate, collaborate, and build relations with people?”

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IDEO’s Valerie Casey talks with Fast Company about the Designers Accord, a movement she founded to encourage organizations to reduce their carbon footprints and raise social and environmental impact with their clients. In less than a year, the Accord has united 100,000 designers and firms from 100 countries, including recent adopters Adobe and Autodesk.

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By Tim Brown

CEO Tim Brown is using his blog to share ideas about design thinking.

By James Moed

James Moed discusses how businesses can best identify opportunities that can be used to create new business growth in the current economic climate.

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Bruce Nussbaum calls IDEO’s Tim Brown “one of the most insightful minds on design thinking and innovation” in his online forum for BusinessWeek. Tim is now writing a book on the subject of design thinking, and he’s using his blog to share ideas and allow for wider discussion.

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To join the brainstorm, and for an overview on how Tim sees design thinking, read his blog here.

Interested in multitouch interfaces? Check out IDEO Labs’ new blog. Or head straight to their open source code. Everything is licensed under Creative Commons, so enjoy!

By Paul Bennett

IDEO’s Paul Bennett on why some companies are better than others at “The I-Word.”

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By Steve Bishop

Steve Bishop, a global lead of Design for Sustainability at IDEO, tells how to create a green product that people actually want.

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By Adam Mack and Aaron Sklar

Adam Mack and Aaron Sklar of IDEO discuss the three tools that will make the strongest contribution when designing for social impact.

As designers, we are empowered to make choices and challenged to understand the consequences of our decisions. In fact, many of us were drawn to the field of design because of our desire to make an impact. While this drive to contribute has long been present in the design discipline, recent trends have thrust design into centre stage and we are increasingly being invited to take on bigger challenges with high-profile partners and even higher potential for impact.

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IDEO’s work for Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, is featured in the Wall Street Journal.

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The Spark device from IDEO and Project Inkwell is featured on techradar.com.

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IDEO’s Ted Howes juries for the SparkAwards  — the world’s first multi-level design competition whose goal is to encourage design to meet the goals of a better world.