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PGS Environmental Defense Fund Fellowships - Summer 2017 Recap
This summer, four Presidio Graduate School students embarked on a mission to drive energy and sustainability change in organizations across the country. Alex Grande, Anuraag Jhawar, Doug Perry, and Robert Bartolucci all served as fellows in Environmental Defense Fund’s prestigious EDF Climate Corps fellowship program. While their experiences differed in size and scope, they intersected …
PGS Alumna Spotlight: Megan Morrice - Impact Investing
Megan Morrice, C20 Leading Client and Partnership Development at HIP Investor HIP Investor is a global leader in impact investing, Megan has experienced firsthand the positive impact that companies have when investing where their mission lies. Megan’s experience includes working as a Financial Advisor for MetLife, a financial-services and insurance wholesaler for Leisure, Werden & …
Alumni Spotlight: Mona Das is Running for Congress
Alumni Spotlight: Mona Das is Running for Congress Meet Mona Das. Mona’s parents immigrated to America from India when she was 8 months old with $6 in their pocket, and an unfailing desire to build a better life for their family. Mona’s parents imbued her with courage, determination, and a strong work ethic. She settled …
One Planet, Two Cultures, One Curriculum: Taking the PGS Methodology to Colombia
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 …
EarthEd: 2017 Worldwatch Institute State of the World
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 …
Doing Good Looks Good at the First PGS Clothing Swap
In step with Earth Day and Fashion Revolution Week, a week-long campaign calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry and commemorating the Rana Plaz factory collapse, where 1,138 people were killed and many more injured on April 24, 2013, the Sustainable Fashion Club hosted a clothing swap during San Francisco campus’s 4th …
Alumni Spotlight: Peter Schulte, SEA C13, Founder and Editor at Kindling
Alumni Spotlight: Peter Schulte, SEA C13, Founder and Editor at Kindling Media Peter is the Founder and Editor of Kindling – an online catalog of humanity’s evolution. Through Kindling, Peter showcases humanity’s great strides toward peace, justice, and sustainability and shines a light on possibilities for our future. Peter also works for the Pacific Institute …
At Conscious Company Media PGS Alumni Advance Sustainable Business
Less than a year ago, Presidio Graduate School (PGS founded in 2003) and Pinchot University (Pinchot founded in 2002) – the world’s two pioneers in graduate degrees in sustainable management – joined forces. In talking with alums of both schools, I’ve sensed palpable excitement at what these schools can learn from one another and accomplish together. Fortunately …
Sustainable Fashion Club and Goodwill Hunting Join Forces
By Melissa Hook Did you know… It takes 700 gallons of water to produce a single t-shirt. 200 million promotional t-shirts are made every year. 150 billion total gallons of water are lost per year — or the equivalent of draining the Lake Union every two weeks. Goodwill Hunting is the brainchild of Dave Bergart, Amy …
ISC Partners with Bona Fide in Nicaragua
Trip Photo Gallery SERIES BY: Alex Grande C23, Robert Bartolucci C23, Remi Mateo P7, Christina Johnson C21, and Erin Moore C25/PA8 Part One: ISC Partners with Bona Fide in Nicaragua By Robert Bartolucci (C23) It’s a new year, which means a new destination for the International Sustainability Club at Presidio Graduate School. Following last year’s trip to …