Growing up in a landfilled area of New York, and later living in rural British Columbia, shaped Grant’s commitment to harmonizing the industrial and natural worlds. He works to preserve the beauty and utility of our finite planet by aligning design with the circular economy. Grant is the founder of Not For Granted Studio, a circular home goods brand dedicated to value preservation; keeping objects in use. Trained in industrial design at Parsons School of Design, with sustainable business education through the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the University of Exeter, Grant’s work spans the full value chain of circular product development; from material innovation and circular supply chains to business transformation; through roles at Ecovative, Healthy Materials Lab, Goldner Sustainability Consulting, Article, and PepsiCo. A former IDSA NY board member and IDSA Sustainability Deep Dive speaker, Grant returns as Circular Economy Officer to advance dialogue on design beyond aesthetics, championing human-centered systems that reframe the circular economy as a driver of new value.
Tarform Electric Motorcycles – Sustainable Materials and Circular Systems
The future of mobility must be renewably powered, and renewably built. That is why Tarform has built their electric motorcycle from sustainable materials that are reclaimable within the circular economy. Grant Goldner, the consulting sustainability lead at Tarform, will provide a lens into the lessons and challenges encountered along the way. This session will cover the strategic framework used to select materials, how the team leveraged the supply chain to ensure materials had their desired end of life, and how they identified novel technology to facilitate recycling for materials outside of commonly accepted municipalities.
