Dear friends and colleagues,

Please join me and all the great collaborators coming together for the historic mindful Materials Impact Summit in Chicago on Monday, June 13th!

The summit will bring together in one room the leading material sustainability groups from across the built environment alongside building industry professionals from all different fields eager to leverage their role for good.

If that wasn’t already compelling enough… This guy is keynoting…

Not Lotad the goat… Tristan Roberts of Quill Nook Farm and HPDC!

As we come back together after COVID, I want to offer something a little different. And that’s what organizers Annie Bevan and Alex Muller have asked of me.

Annie said on a planning call, “I’m excited about this coming from your soul.” She discussed as a goal for this talk for “People to understand their power and their magic in a thoughtful way.”

I couldn’t have said it better!

I promise my keynote will not:

motivate by fear
call you out
inspire from without
pitch

Here's what I will do:

call out my own despair
find the magic on the other side of that
offer a template
inspire from within

If that and/or the material health content sounds in any way compelling, please see details and sign up here!

Here’s more event description:

Driving holistic materials sustainability is an essential and immediate need to course-correct the built environment towards a thriving future — from climate impacts, to the social inequities of toxic material exposure, inefficient material systems that drive waste, and beyond.

We all want to make a difference, but materials and their embodied impacts are part of complex, global systems. Navigating this landscape alone is daunting and inefficient.

mindful MATERIALS is a certification-agnostic industry convener, rooted in the idea that collaboration drives greater impact. On June 13th, 2022, mM will host the very first mMATERIAL impact summit, bringing together in one room the leading material sustainability groups from across the built environment alongside building industry professionals from all different fields eager to leverage their role for good.

Summit Flow:

Mingle + Snacks plus a welcome by BIFMA, Steelcase
Kickoff by mindful MATERIALS
Opening Keynote by Tristan Roberts
Breakout: Finding your Magic
Ecosystem Alignment Pecha Kucha
Breakout + Networking: From impact to transformation
Closing + Call to Action

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When: June 13, from 2-5p followed by a Happy Hour from 5-6p

Where: Hosted at Brookfield Properties, 350 N Orleans St #300, Chicago, IL 60654

Who Should Attend:

Anyone with an interest in advancing the holistic sustainability of building materials — from contractors, to educators, owners and developers, designers or manufacturers — is welcome and encouraged to attend.

This summit is at a 200+ level to encourage deep discussion and action. Foundational materials will be shared before the summit starts so all participants can enter with a common baseline of knowledge.

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all attendees. Masks are not required but are encouraged.

I hope to see you there!

Chicago-bound,

Tristan
Quill Nook Farm

P.S. DM me if you want to meet up! And okay, by popular demand…

Roberts' Green Letter

Tristan to keynote the mindful Materials…