Sustainability

New York Times Bestseller, “Drawdown:  The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” Starts with Presidio Graduate School Written by Shawna Cain (C15)   Alumna Profile Series: Amanda Joy Ravenhill, C10, MBA San Francisco “If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…How …

Presidio Graduate School is always exploring and nurturing new opportunities to spread its brand of sustainable management and our techniques for teaching it. Entering into collaborations with other universities offers another avenue for doing this in addition to teaching our own graduates. This represents a new kind of leverage for us in our efforts to …

Presidio Graduate School is pleased to publish the below blog written by professor emeritus, Dr. Dwight Collins. Dear Presidians, The 2017 Worldwatch Institute State of the World (SOW) includes two very positive references to PGS. Its title this year is EarthEd with a focus on the state of education across the planet relative to sustainability. In a …

 Stacy Flynn just changed the world. Today, Stacy’s textile technology startup Evrnu™, SPC and global jeanswear leader Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) announced they have created the world’s first jean made from regenerated post-consumer cotton waste. Evrnu uses a new, patent-pending recycling technology to convert discarded consumer waste into a renewable fiber. The first prototype, …

The greatest thing about the business case for sustainability is that there is one. We’ve known this for a while now, but companies all over the world are discovering new ways to enhance the bottom line by applying a sustainability lens to their business. Here are five important considerations if you’re trying to add value …

Original publication on upstreamideas.org If you were to just turn on your TV, you would think that the debate around climate change hasn’t changed much since the early 2000’s.  You would see a reoccurring conflict between contending forces, and for all the talking and debate the needle never moves. While not unimportant, I am asking …

This post was originally published in Conscious Company Magazine’s Fall 2015 issue. By Jimmy Jia In 1964, the Columbia River Treaty between the US and Canada created the hydropower management framework for the Pacific Northwest. The US was interested in developing hydropower but needed a steady supply of water. Since the first third of the …

Why do we do what we do as sustainable practitioners? It’s a question that comes up again and again in circles of sustainability. People like myself who do this work at institutions like Presidio want to know where did the motivations come from that give people the well of strength to be sustainable business leaders? …

 Name: Lyrica McTiernan Cohort: C11 Company: Facebook Title: Sustainability Manager Interview by Dany Warman (C19/PA5) I had the opportunity to attend Facebook’s Sustainability @Scale 2015 event this Summer. The event overall was very inspiring, and I got to meet Alyssa Holt and Lyrica McTiernan, the two alumni leading sustainability changes at Facebook. After playing phone and …

 This post was originally published on lunarmobiscuit.com on August 25, 2015. In the last post, I talked about how revenue-based investments are a lower cost of capital than traditional equity.  In this post, as promised, I’ll explain how they also better align the incentives of an investor with the entrepreneur. To start with, always remember …