<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings SPN Colleagues!</div><div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'm facilitating <a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/connect/2015-product-design-challenge" title="" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge</a>, which might be of interest to you given your ongoing work and areas of interest.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The </span><a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> and </span><a href="http://www.autodesk.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Autodesk</a><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> share a vision of </span>accelerating the design-led revolution toward a sustainable future. <br><br>We hope you'll participate in this exciting opportunity to showcase innovative ideas for eliminating the concept of "waste" and growing the circular economy. <br>The upcoming submission deadline is December 1st, so there's still time to participate and design a product concept that embodies this vision.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Our <a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/connect/2015-product-design-challenge-judges">judging panel</a> will select winning designs in the following categories and award prizes of $2000 each: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Professional Submission</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Student Submission</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Use of Aluminum </span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">B</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">est Use of </span></font><a href="http://cl.s6.exct.net/?qs=af698154e0c0c8ea9b8e28ddfe41e2ca3e14191e41fa12d9edfb15d78cf4bff2" title="" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.6">Autodesk Fusion 360</a> (also wins a full pass to<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> <a href="http://cl.s6.exct.net/?qs=af698154e0c0c8ead25b740325a97c01d752bc8add2c4cba9d74480b1f11cd47" title="" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.6">Autodesk University 2016</a>.) </span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">And one design could win up to three categories, with a prize of $6000!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You can find out more about the challenge and the submission guidelines </span><a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/connect/2015-product-design-challenge" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">here</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">To be eligible,<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> <a href="http://education.c2ccertified.org/lms/">register</a> </span>for our two-hour, self-paced online course <a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/education/design-for-the-circular-economy" target="_blank">Designing for the Circular Economy</a> and complete the module. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please feel free to pass this information along to friends, colleagues, students or other relevant networks. <span style="font-size:small"> </span></div></div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="450" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top" width="123"><p style="margin-right:10px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:12px;margin-bottom:10px"><a href="http://www.c2ccertified.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><img src="https://htmlsigs.s3.amazonaws.com/logos/files/000/200/603/landscape/logoc2cpii.png" alt="Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute" border="0" height="80" width="113"></a></p></td><td align="left" nowrap width="337"><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:12px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin-bottom:10px"><span style="font-weight:bold">Marisa Guber</span> / Community of Practice Manager<br><a href="mailto:marisa@c2ccertified.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(71,124,204);text-decoration:none;display:inline">marisa@c2ccertified.org</a> / 917.589.9197</p><p style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:12px;margin-bottom:10px"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute</span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