PK-sf v47 @ Levi's w/ the Commonwealth Club

Have you SEEN this line-up!?

Mark Dwight, Founder & CEO, Rickshaw Bagworks

Rob Forbes, Founder, Design Within Reach; Founder, Public

Flora Grubb, Founder, Flora Grubb Gardens

Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery

Walter Hood, Principal, Hood Design; Professor and Former Chair of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley

Max Schorr, Co-founder and Publisher, GOOD Magazine

Bryony Schwan, Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute

Not our usual "Open Mic" group...all headliners, it'll be a terrific night. Goodies at the post-show mixer. A Great way to dive into October, so come on down! Tickets available at the door...See y'all tonight!

PK-sf v47: How to build a Sustainable Future

Greetings SF Pecha Kucha people!

Hope y'all had a great summer! Now we're looking forward to it getting warm, finally. Coming up October 3rd, we will be stepping beyond the our usual focus on design to engage the bigger question facing the planet when we co-host our first event with both the Commonwealth Club of California* and Levi's. There's an excellent line-up coming together. The evening's format will be a bit new, tickets must be purchased on-line at the Commonwealth Club website:

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2011-10-03/6-minutes-40-seconds-how-design-sustainable-future

October 3rd @ 6:00 PM

Levi's Auditorium, Levi's Plaza 1155 Battery St., San Francisco, CA

* "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. We bring over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy to 15,000 members."

We hope you can make it! It'll be a whole scene, crowd, etc. & a good chance to see how sustainability is viewed from new and interesting perspectives.

cheers,

Team PK-sf

PK-sf joins the Commonwealth Club of CA at Levi's

Oct 3rd at Levi's - for more info click here for tickets:

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2011-10-03/6-minutes-40-seconds-how-design-sustainable-future.

more info and the line-up to come soon!

Team PK-sf

PKN vol.44 May 23rd, NEXT MONDAY

A little late notice, but we're hosting another event on Monday evening, the 23rd, at 330 Ritch.

A really great group of presenters has stepped up, and i think we'll be seeing a fantastic range of topics. We've got a community educator and artist, a bike-builder, a spirits distiller, a sustainable entrepreneur, a few industrial designers, and a sociologist, to name a few.

GRASSROOTS is the theme for May. Come hear about how design can be used for social, environmental, or even political activism and change. We've scheduled another event with the great folks at 330 Ritch for Monday, May 23rd at 8:20pm (doors at 7pm). We will be back at 330 Ritch, (after April 16th's brief detour to Yoshi's). Their helpful staff will be fixing drinks behind the bar and Little Skillet will be cooking up some delicious Fried Chicken & Waffles (w/hot sauce OR syrup), chicken sandwiches, amongst other things.

Head over to the main page for the details: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/san-francisco/44

Cool digital cartography course!

GAFFTA is offering an excellent Digital Catography course tomorrow, downtown SF:

http://www.gaffta.org/our-work/education/data-visualization-digital-cartography/

It's an introductory course, not-necessarily for programmers & coders.