Xindanwei Chitchat Edition 27: Susan Evans and ECO GLOBAL PARTY Chongming
Speaker: Susan Evans
Time: 19:00-21:00 Thursday, Nov, 11th
Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd
Cost:
30RMB (providing tea, coffee, soft drink and snacks, every participant will receive a voucher to experience Work-a-thon for free. More about Work-a-thon, please see http://xindanwei.com/lang/en/2010/10/work-a-thon/); Free of Charge for Xindanwei Monthly and Yearly Member
Important Notice:
-This is a reservation only event, seats are limited to the first 40 people who are registered at the event page of Xindanwei website.
- Transportation: We highly recommend you to take public transportation instead of driving, for we are conveniently located next to Metro line 1, 10(Shaanxi Rd South Stop) and Metro 9 (Jiashan Rd stop) as well as bus line 96, 104, 911, 167，42，920，926，128，146，24
In this section of chitchat we will introduce Susan Evans and ECO GLOBAL PARTY Chongming. For the first time china is going to globally connect from Eco island Chongming with Zero carbon world concert, ride the planet earth and bring together Eco re-use, design and food markets.
To support your global climate, Goodtoshanghai and DESIS china are partnering to bring together fun, inspiring, sustainable and beneficial activities to help lower environmental impact. We would like urban residents to benefit, learn and enjoy through practice about how they can lower their own environmental impact through the little changes to their lifestyle.
On Chongming island people can join our party, rock to the great live music, scoot around the village on a bike, visit the eco design & food market and find a little treasure at the second-hand market
References for the zero carbon concert and ride the planet
http://www.zerocarbonconcert.org/?page_id=39
http://rideplanetearth.org/
Susan Evans is the founder and principle of Kplunk and GoodtoSH. Susan moved to Shanghai in 2008 and immediately set about exploring the perceptions, behaviours and ideals of urban citizens and experts in the field of environmental sustainability.
Her career experience started at the Fraunhofer research institute in Germany, working on the development of innovative technologies for the European Commission, moved into strategic creative development and the global network of Publicis Advertising Agency in London and San Francisco, later Vice President of FCB and Y&R and finally founding her own business Kplunk. Susan has worked on some of the biggest people brands such as Nintendo, Perrier and Volvo, and some world leaders such as Intel and Xerox , to name a few, plus reaping the experience and rush of working in Silicon valley during the madness of the internet bubble. Creating social change in China adds an exciting challenge to her portfolio.
Susan’s approach is to create desirability, demand and awareness at the micro level: “bottom up approach”. Focused on urban citizens this will complement and create pull for the macro approach: “top down approach” as new technologies, systems and infrastructure become available. Susan’s goal is to speed up the adoption of sustainable living so as to improve peoples quality of living and at the same time reduce use of non-sustainable natural resources and health threatening pollution.
Susan Evans: Adv. decision making in Environmental Sustainability, Post Grad, Research Statistics M.Sc, Computing, operational research & statistics, B.Sc hons, Sport, B.Ed.
More about Susan Evans: http://kplunk.com/work/
