Environment

Articles : All [8] | News Articles [9] | Stanford Social Innovation Review Articles [10] | Blog Posts [11]

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [12], Environment [13], Nonprofit Management [14]

Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental And Food Activists Need To Consider Social Justice, Author Says [16]

Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Knight Management Center Awarded LEED Platinum Rating For Environmental Sustainability [17]

The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an eight-building complex designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum, has achieved the LEED Platinum rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Sustainability Drives Student Interest in Farming [18]

[photo - Environmental Sustainability in Farming]

Sustainability now also means treating farmworkers well, an avocado grower tells MBA students interested in food and agriculture resource management.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

How the Tractor Killed the Family Farm [19]

Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [12], Environment [13], Nonprofit Management [14]

How Do You Encourage Recycling? [15]

Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental And Food Activists Need To Consider Social Justice, Author Says [16]

Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Knight Management Center Awarded LEED Platinum Rating For Environmental Sustainability [17]

The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an eight-building complex designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum, has achieved the LEED Platinum rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Sustainability Drives Student Interest in Farming [18]

Sustainability now also means treating farmworkers well, an avocado grower tells MBA students interested in food and agriculture resource management.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

How the Tractor Killed the Family Farm [19]

Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

An Environmental Provocateur [29]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2010

WHOLE EARTH DISCIPLINE: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Research: Urban Emissionscapes [31]

[30]

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2010

How can we reduce carbon dioxide emissions?

-Subscription Required [32]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Out-Greening Your Neighbor [33]

[30]

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2010

What incentives can be used to help people to go green?

-Subscription Required [34]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Q&A: Fred Krupp [35]

[30]

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

Under Fred Krupp’s leadership, the Environmental Defense Fund has become one of the most important power brokers in the environmental arena. Krupp has helped accomplish what some thought was impossible—getting businesses to go green voluntarily. —By Eric Nee

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

A Nature State of Mind [36]

[30]

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

Systemic problems call for systemic solutions, which bioregions are best at delivering

-Subscription Required [37]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Economic Development [39], Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP [41]

Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.

Resource: Blog Post

Video/Audio : All [42] | Audio [43] | Video [44]

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Environmental Sustainability for Small Businesses [46]

When does a house painter learn about low VOC paint? Are high-efficiency lightbulbs always better? How can you reduce package waste and still meet client expectations? How can a small business owner keep up with sustainability issues? Now Intuit and eBay have sites where small businesses share their green knowledge. Amy Skoczlas Cole, who runs eBayGreenTeam, and Rupesh Shah of IntuitGreen talk about small business and green.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [13]

New Business Models and Metrics for Water [47]

Even after decades of well intentioned efforts by governments and NGOs, clean drinking water and sanitation are still lacking in many parts of the developing world, with thousands of wells, pumps, and toilets lying in disrepair. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water, Water for People CEO Ned Breslin talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about the need for new business models and longer-term performance metrics to ensure more sustainable water and sanitation systems in the developing world.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Using Public-Private Partnerships to Resolve Asia's Water Crisis [48]

Countries all across Asia face the prospect of a water crisis that threatens the sustainability of their already stretched water and irrigation systems. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water around the world, the Asian Development Bank's Arjun Thapan talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about the potential of public-private partnerships to catalyze the efficiency improvements required to meet increasing water demand in the face of reduced water availability due to climate change.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

Social Enterprise in Food Supply Chains [49]

In the arena of social enterprise, a California collaboration is creating a high yield. In this university podcast, executives Diane Del Signore and Maisie Greenwalt share how Community Alliance with Family Farmers and Bon Appétit Management Company have partnered to create a local distribution system to get locally grown products into institutional settings. They also talk about efforts to help farmers become more organic.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

20 Years of Business Partnership at EDF [50]

What happens when the nation's largest fast-food chain and a leading environmental advocacy group partner to reduce food packaging waste? Sharing the lessons learned from the groundbreaking success story of an NGO-business model that began 20 years ago and led way for other cross-sector partnerships in sustainability, Environmental Defense Fund's Gwen Ruta and McDonald's Bob Langert, with host Jerry Michalski, kick off The Future of Green open call series.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-6 [51]

Environment and the Supply Chain: MBA student Tom Mercer, Class of '07, got a chance to see different views on the supply chain from varied perspectives: the corporate perspective (Starbucks), as well as those of individual coffee farmers.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-11 [52]

The trip to Guatemala gave Sarah Garrett, MBA '08, the opportunity to discover where that cup of coffee that she enjoys daily comes from, seeing the whole process from the farmer growing the beans to the final step of getting that cup of coffee from the servers at Starbucks.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-10 [53]

For Sarah Garrett, MBA '08, the service learning trip to Guatemala gave her an opportunity to get to know the first year students better, both socially and also in order to share thoughts about their service learning experiences.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-7 [54]

MBAs Get Their Hands Dirty and Get Perspective: Tom Mercer, Class of '09, says, "We went out and picked one of the toughest plots out there ... and got our hands dirty. It was really laborious. ... We were told we had each earned about a dollar a day as workers."

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-9 [55]

There Must Be a Better Way: "We saw their coffee operation. ... Individuals picked through their coffee beans to get the high premium quality beans. ... It made you think: There MUST be a better way," says Tom Mercer, Class of '09, of his experience in Guatemala.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [13], Government [56]

Carbon Pricing for Environmental Sustainability [57]

What policy tools can the U.S. government use to get companies to reduce their greenhouse emissions and promote environmental sustainability? Carbon pricing, says Harvard professor Robert Stavins. Speaking at the 2010 Climate Policy Instruments in the Real World conference at Stanford University, Stavins explains how two instruments, carbon fees (taxes) and cap and trade, can be used to promote environmental responsibility, even though these mechanisms may be imperfect.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [13]

Environmental Sustainability and Clean Energy [58]

A new green industrial revolution is necessary to improve America's competitive position, reduce dependence on oil, and mitigate climate change. So says Secretary of Energy and Nobel in Physics winner Steven Chu in this talk at Stanford University. Chu talks about the scientific realities of global warming, technology solutions to address it, and how such efforts may stimulate the U.S. economy.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [13], Government [56]

Dr. Marcia McNutt: Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture Series [59]

How a team of scientists collaborated with the government to measure damage after the catastrophic Gulf oil spill in 2010.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Sustainability Opportunities in Global Supply Chains [60]

When a company like Wal-Mart decides to work with suppliers to reduce their emissions, a positive ripple is created throughout the global economy. However, is there room for smaller innovators when it comes to greening the supply chain? In this audio interview, part of the Future of Green series from Stanford's Center for Social Innovation, Professor Gary Gereffi and EDF's Andrew Hutson talk about opportunities for sustainable supply chains in the age of globalization.

Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

New Sustainable Business Models [61]

Bringing along the consumer, Method and Zipcar have provided greener alternatives to our everyday lifestyles. By creating this catalyst for change, they moved their products and services ahead of industry leaders and scaled this impact with market success. In this Future of Green open call series from Stanford's Center for Social Innovation, founders Robin Chase of Zipcar and Adam Lowry of Method speak on building a company around a radical and sustainable business model.

Resource: Audio

Case Studies : All [63] | Academic Cases [64]

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Topics:

Environment [13], Nonprofit Management [14]

Wild Salmon Center [66]

The Wild Salmon Center was created to provide anglers access to excellent fishing in return for funding research and conservation. The case discusses the Center’s efforts to protect the pristine watersheds of the Kamchatka Peninsula by developing ecotourism to raise funds for conservation.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

Gardenburger [67]

The CEO of Gardenburger, a seller of veggie burger products and other food alternatives to meat, considers the company’s advertising strategy. He aims to take the company from the small health-food niche to the consumer mainstream.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

Touring in the Galapagos Islands [68]

Various economic and environmental issues face the owners of a cruise business in the Galapagos Islands. The case gives special attention to the efforts of locals to preserve and enhance their own ecotourism business prospects.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

Ma Jun and the IPE: Using Information to Improve China's Environment [69]

The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs is Chinese environmental non-profit that has single-handedly revolutionized brought pollution standards and compliance to more than 47,000 sites and 22 multinational corporations in China. This case tells the story of the organization and its founder, environmental entrepreneur Ma Jun.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

Maria Yee Inc.: Making 'Green' Furniture in China [70]

Maria Yee Inc. occupies a unique position as an environmentally conscious premium household furniture maker with two direct-owned factories in China and distribution through several large U.S. retailers. This case addresses the unique challenges that an entrepreneurial company faces in reaching its full potential as a business while advancing its green strategy.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

Environmental Enhancements in Road Vehicle Technologies [71]

In 2007, the issue of global warming brought carbon dioxide emissions to the forefront of Americans’ minds. This paper examines some of the emerging innovations designed to reduce oil consumption.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Disclosure Dilemma: Financial Reporting of Contingent and Environmental Liabilities [72]

The case discusses U.S. and international accounting guidance regarding the disclosure of contingent and environmental liabilities.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

Fuel Economy Standards 2007 [73]

In 2007, Congress was discussing a 40 percent increase in required fuel efficiency. The automobile industry had a choice to fight the ruling., but instead decided to focus on influencing the details of the legislation.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

Note on Energy [74]

Entrepreneurs and investors will find in this note a broad overview of the energy sector in 2008, highlighting trends and market dynamics.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [13]

The Electric Car: The Major Players [75]

The case covers and analyzes the major players in the electric car industry, including start-up and established automakers, battery makers, retrofitters, utility companies and the government.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Environment [13], Social Entrepreneurship [40]

TerraMai: Reclaimed Woods from Around the World [76]

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ken Westrick became a partner in TerraMai, a company that reclaims discarded wood and sells it to consumers. In 2003, the partners embark on an ambitious growth plan.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (C) [77]

In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network launched a campaign to get Citigroup to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems. This third case describes how activists try to gain access to Citigroup's top management.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (B) [78]

In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network launched a campaign to get Citigroup to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems. This second case relates the opportunistic revival of the campaign two years after it started.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (A) [79]

In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network launched a campaign to get Citigroup to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems. Three cases trace the development of that campaign starting with the initial launch and tentative negotiations.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Environment [13], Nonprofit Management [14]

Strategic Activism: The Rainforest Action Network [80]

The Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth’s rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants. In April 2003, a new executive director began a review of the organization’s strategy and mission.

Resource: Academic Case

Research Papers : All [88]

Topics:

Business [89], Socially Responsible Business [90], Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Don't Tweak your Supply Chain - Rethink It End to End [91]

The article examines environmental issues related to supply chains and supply chain management. Attempts to introduce sustainable practices into supply chains often meet with unexpected financial or environmental costs.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Socially Responsible Business [90], Corporate Social Responsibility [45], Environment [13]

Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air? [92]

Establishments in better managed firms are significantly less energy intensive. Better managed firms are also significantly more productive. These results suggest that management practices that are associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Environment [13], Government [56], Leadership [93]

Would Boycotting BP Do Any Good? [94]

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Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Environment [13]

A Room with a Viewpoint [95]

Managers and marketers can motivate consumers to participate in environmental conservation programs by telling them how the majority of other people behaved in the same situation. Researchers specifically studied how to ask hotel guests whether or not they wanted to reuse their towels during the course of a stay. The study highlights the benefits of employing social science research and theory—rather than business communicators’ hunches, lay theories, or best guesses—in crafting persuasive messages. Guests given a description : "the majority guests in this hotel asked to reuse their towels," were 9% more likely to make the same decision than guests who were simply asked to "help save the environment" with no information on comparative behavior. Guests were motivated even further when the description matched their social demographic even more closely. They were even more likely to reuse their towels when told the majority of people staying in their room in the past had done so.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Environment [13]

Slowing Introductions of New Electronic Products Reduces E-Waste [96]

Some types of regulations governing disposal of electronic waste can reduce the world's mountains of devices waiting to be recycled, and also slow the rate of new product introductions says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Erica Plambeck.

Resource: Research Paper

Courses : All [98]

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers - advanced: OIT 339 [99]

Designed for students with strong modeling/optimization/simulation skills, this course allocates more time to environmental and energy science and its implications for management and policy, and less time to the basics of modeling/optimization/simulation. Students apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers: OIT 338 [100]

This course explores the fundamental science of ecosystems, climate, and energy. Students learn to apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Environment [13]

Initiating, Sustaining, and Monetizing Green Marketing: MKTG 551 [101]

This course addresses numerous questions about how to initiate and sustain green marketing. It also explores what technological and marketing innovations are likely to arise in the future.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Environment [13]

Business and Environmental Issues: GSBGEN 547 [102]

This speaker seminar examines the overlap and synergies between the business and environmental fields. Weekly speakers include leaders from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Entrepreneurship: GSBGEN 339 [103]

Markets have tremendous potential for solving environmental problems. Through case analysis, guest speakers, and the creation of business plans in environmental entrepreneurship, students will learn to apply core business principles of finance, marketing, economics, operations, accounting, and more to the provision of environmental goods and services.

Resource: MBA Course

Innovators : All [104]

Topic :

Environment [13]

Water World [105]

Leading a Social Innovation Study Trip lands Robyn Beavers, MBA '10, in a new industry.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Environment [13]

Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04 [106]

Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04, President, Environmental Incentives, discusses how he's drawing upon the tools and training he received from the GSB to help make a difference.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Economic Development [39], Environment [13]

How Growth Can Be Green [107]

A Stanford GSB student looks at the value of renewable energy in the developing world.

Resource: Student

Topic :

Environment [13]

Jack May (MBA '84) [108]

Jack shares his unexpected adventures on Kangaroo Island, Australia, and how his discovery in habitat restoration has become an international example.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Environment [13]

Frank Gibson Myers (MBA '66) [109]

"Gib" shares his passion for America’s Great Plains and the possibility and promise of creating a prairie wildlife reserve of three million acres, and the hope it represents.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Environment [13]

Greening Taiwan's Cities [112]

A key player in creating Taiwan's semiconductor industry explains the role of technology in improving energy efficiency.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

James Sweeney: A Sustainable Energy System [113]

James Sweeney, director of Stanford's Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, discusses green cities at a Stanford GSB conference.

Resource: Video

Topic :

Environment [13]

Environmental Sustainability Through Recycling [114]

Messaging that makes meanings easier to understand leads people to recycle more. That's the conclusion of a study reported on by Canadian Scholar Kate White in this University podcast. White says that negative messages about the dangers of not recycling work best when paired with concrete action steps, showing how to recycle. White spoke at the Stanford Prosocial Briefing.

Resource: Audio

Topic :

Environment [13], Government [56]

Stanford's George Shultz on Energy: It's Personal [115]

George Shultz leads a group preparing to propose a federal tax on carbon to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption, a seemingly unlikely policy from a Republican Party statesman.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [13]

Food, Water, and Energy [116]

Our planet will reach nine billion people by 2050. Are we anywhere near ready to feed that many people? In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture discussed the need to connect food, water, and energy technologies to address our need for sustainable agriculture. Dr. Bartuska spoke as part of the panel "Framing the Challenges: How Can Connection Technologies Support Sustainable Development?" at the USRio+2.0 Conference at Stanford University.

Resource: Audio

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