Jer Faludi

Sustainable Design Strategist

Jeremy Faludi (LEED AP) is a sustainable design strategist and researcher at Project FROG. He also teaches green design at Stanford University, where he created the graduate/undergraduate class ME221: Green Design Tools and Metrics, and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and California College of the Arts. In the past, he has worked for Rocky Mountain Institute, The Biomimicry Institute, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, among others. A bicycle he helped design has appeared in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, he designed the prototype for what is now the AskNature biomimicry portal, and he was a finalist in the 2007 California Cleantech Open competition. In 2008 he was a juror for Dell's ReGeneration green computing competition. In addition to his design work, he writes for Worldchanging.com and is one of the many authors of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. He also contributed to the books Packaging Sustainability by Wendy Jedlicka and Eco-labels: Concerns and Experiences by Asha B. Joshi. He has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, C|Net, Sustainable Industries Journal, and many others. Jeremy has spoken on green design and biomimicry at conferences, schools, and businesses around the world, including Mattel, Arup, Foo Camp, ETech, Doors of Perception in Delhi, the Better World Business Forum in Paris, Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands, ArquinFAD in Barcelona, the National Library of Medicine, University of California Berkeley, and Emily Carr University in Canada. Originally trained as a physicist at Reed College, he spent some time in the semiconductor industry before getting his masters in product design at Stanford.