What does the term "green" embody? Ecological consciousness? Money and profitability? Corporations and individual actors alike will need incentive to deviate from their current destructive path. However, doing the right thing and profitability are no longer mutually exclusive. Brown Progress Initiative (BPI) seeks to bridge the term's once disparate connotations to facilitate the transition from awareness to action, beginning right here at Brown.

BPI is a multidisciplinary think-tank for new sustainable product design and development. BPI seeks to harness the creative energy of the entire Brown community to cultivate innovative solutions for a changing world. Its ideas aim to create profitable products by solving current needs in a "green" manner, working together to bring ideas to market.

It has been said that humans have ten years to significantly reduce our footprint before it will be too late for the species, not to mention countless others who have suffered at our hands. Therefore, to stand still is no longer to preserve the status quo - failure to act will only abet further regression. The only option left to us now is progress.