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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 …
Seattle Students Visit Manufacturing Facilities
During the final fall residency weekend, first-year Presidio Graduate School students from the Seattle campus spent a whole day touring local manufacturing facilities to see the principles of operation they have been studying in action. The organizations we visited included Watson Furniture – maker of custom and catalog office workstations; Sage – maker of high-end …
Master’s Degrees with Meaning
We Offer “Realist Idealists” Master’s Degrees with Meaning Reflections from Richard Gray, PhD. What are the motivators of human decisions and action? There are at least three: PLEASURE Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) concluded that pleasure is the governing principle in life. In the final analysis, pleasure is what we seek, consciously or unconsciously, and what …
Sustainability: The Challenges and the Response
Sustainability: The Challenges and the Response Preparing a Tribe of Prophets for Our Time Reflections from Richard (Dick) M. Gray, PhD. Richard Gray was a founder of PGS. He also had a theology degree and in 1973 he founded World College West, a fully accredited school predicated on the belief that experiencing “world study” was …
A Presidian in the White House
A Presidian in the White House By Tanya Weliky When asked about the process of landing the position of Senior Policy Advisor in the White House, David Groves (C13) chuckled, “I would never have predicted there’d be a direct line from one of my Presidio Graduate School projects to having to pass through a Secret …
Flash Mob Takes The Gold at First “Pitch In” Event
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Presidian Power at the Women's March
I am lucky to be a Presidian, part of a community that is willing to come together and stand for each other. This community holds businesses and our government accountable to our shared values. The Women’s March and upcoming protests are our chance to show our leadership and educate others to create a more just, …