Environment

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

Topic :

Business [12], Global Issues [13], Socially Responsible Business [14], Environment [15]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2010

As it turns out, family values play an important role in the socially and environmentally responsible practices of big businesses. According to recent research, family firms pollute less than nonfamily firms—and experts say that’s due to the family values that these firms were founded upon.

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Global Issues [13], Social Policy [19], Environment [15], Government [20]

Climate Soldiers [21]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2010

THE CLIMATE WAR: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth by Eric Pooley

We are honored to bring you the last article written by one of the world’s most prominent climatologists, Stephen H. Schneider, who died of an apparent heart attack while flying from Sweden to London on July 19. The article is a review of the new book, The Climate War, by business journalist Eric Pooley.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Business [12], Global Issues [13], Socially Responsible Business [14], Environment [15]

Thinking Straight About Sustainability [22]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2010

Sustainability is not only the best way to describe how to integrate social, environmental, and economic impacts into all corporate decisions, it is also the best way to manage a business to achieve those same results.

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Global Issues [13], Social Policy [19], Education [24], Environment [15], Government [20]

Q & A: Jeffrey Sachs [25]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2010

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the Earth Institute, believes that we must lift a billion-plus people out of poverty while simultaneously reducing our impact on the environment.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Global Issues [13], Social Innovations [26], Social Policy [19], Environment [15], Government [20]

Research: Local Warming [27]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2010

Global warming is harmful to most—but helpful to poor farmers. As the prices of crops go up due to drought, some farmers will sell their produce for more and the extra cash flow will lift communities out of poverty.

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15], Healthcare [40]

Criticism May Produce Innovation, Wal-Mart CEO Scott Says [41]

Wal-Mart’s innovative approach to environmental sustainability and its addition of health care services to stores were partly triggered by critics of the company in other areas. CEO Lee Scott spoke with Sloan Fellows.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [15]

About Forty Years Until the Oil Runs Out [42]

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If the world had to rely on the United States for all of its oil, the supply wouldn’t last very long—one year to be exact, speakers told a conference titled “Reduce Your Ecological Footprint."

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [15], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [43]

Environmental Investment Can Pay Dividends says Mark Tercek [44]

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There are “huge opportunities for companies and other private sector players in the environmental area,” said Mark Tercek, an investment banker who spent the past 24 years at global giant Goldman Sachs. “We’re off to the races there."

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [15]

Demand for Green Buildings Increases at Stanford [45]

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Buildings in the United States account for more than 40 percent of the nation’s carbon emissions and use three-fourths of all electricity the nation produces, speakers told an alumni conference. Stanford University is fighting back with plans for greener buildings.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [15]

Good Scolding Can Save Natural Resources [46]

An experiment showed that a stern scolding was effective in getting homeowners to curb energy use. It was one of the examples cited during a three-day conference on reducing the ecological footprint, sponsored by the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and the University’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Environment [15], Government [20]

What’s Next: The Green to Go Green [48]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2008

In Berkeley, here comes the sun.

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [15], Government [20]

Fast Food and the Family Farm [50]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2008

It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner. —By Bruce Boyd

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [15], Government [20]

A Lot of Hot Air [51]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2008

A popular Mexico City program for cutting air pollution from vehicles doesn’t work; in fact sales of new cars, used cars, and gasoline have climbed since the program’s launch in 1989.

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

From the Ground Up [54]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2008

Part academic institution, part activist group, part think tank, ATREE crosses sectors to breed a new species of conservation agency in India. —By Brandon Keim

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [56], Environment [15], Government [20]

Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights [57]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2008

The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion. —By Suzie Boss

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Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Economic Development [60], Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP [61]

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 [62] | Audio [63] | Video [64]

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [43]

Risks and Opportunities of Going Green [65]

What does Wall Street make of the trends in cleantech, corporate environmental strategy, corporate social responsibility, and emerging carbon markets? In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, two Goldman Sachs managers discuss how their investment firm is making the financing of corporate deals contingent upon the incorporation of increasingly stringent environmental criteria.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [15]

Business Solutions to Climate Change [66]

Better design integration and materials innovation can lead to big energy and cost savings, and rapid return on investment, particularly in the automotive and housing industries. Amory Lovins, one of America's most influential energy speakers, offers some profitable business-led solutions to climate, oil, and nuclear proliferation problems in this Stanford Center for Social Innovation sponsored audio lecture. Lovins offers strategies to reduce US oil dependence through a menu of renewable and fossil fuel types.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Economic Development [60], Environment [15]

Environmental Sustainability and Economic Development [67]

[photo - Harriet Babbitt, Nancy Birdsall, Cameron Sinclair, Lawrence Summers]

Environmental sustainability faces one of its toughest challenges when it comes to international growth. In this panel discussion, experts consider how the accelerated rate at which developing nations now follow the footsteps of the United States is leading to the ever greater exploitation of natural resources. They discuss ways to achieve sustainable development.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15]

Reducing U.S. Emissions Affordably [68]

Now that global warming is recognized as a real and serious problem, discussion is turning to practical challenges of reducing emissions in the long term. Host of the Center for Social Innovation, Rick Duke, discusses a new report by McKinsey & Company that considers how to address the problem affordably. In this audio lecture, Duke outlines some of the emerging technologies and public policy changes that will be needed to support such a process.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Making Salmon More Sustainable [69]

In Chile, the farming of salmon seemed the ideal solution to the depletion of world fish populations--until it became clear that acquiculture causes its own environmental problems. In an audio interview by Eric Nee, managing editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Rodrigo Pizarro explores the challenges of acquiculture and the foundation's project to reduce the impact of salmon farming through a sustainable system of seaweed cultivation.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [15], Government [20], Leadership [70]

Al Gore: Leaders Must Supply Vision, Values & Goals [71]

The Stanford Graduate School of Business View from the Top Series hosted former Vice President Al Gore where he spoke to over 600 students on leadership, solutions for the climate crisis, and sustainable capitalism.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15]

Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Perspectives from California [72]

California, the ninth largest economy in the world, recently launched a new carbon cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Mary Nichols [73], chair of the California Air Resources Board, leads this program that could provide a model to support other regional or national efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15]

US-wide Carbon Policy: Two MBAs' Perspectives [74]

As part of the annual Conradin Von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture on the Environment, Mike Volpe, MBA '13, and Jake Saper, MBA '14, lay out an argument for a US-wide carbon policy.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15]

James Sweeney: A Sustainable Energy System [75]

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

Resource: Video

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Environment [15]

Kung Wang: Energy and Cross-Strait Relations [76]

Professor Kung Wang of China University of Technology discussed energy and cross-Strait relations at the "Innovations for Smart Green Cities: What's Working, What's Not, What's Next" conference.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15]

Investing in Green Tech [77]

Kleiner Perkins is greening its portfolio with an alternative energy fund.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15]

Environmental Sustainability and Global Warming [78]

Promoting environmental sustainability is the responsibility of every world citizen, says Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore in this audio lecture. Speaking at the 2009 Tech Awards, he urges his audience to consider how they may make changes and press for policies that will address global warming. He asks Westerners, in particular, to consider how the consequences of their own actions may be causing suffering for millions displaced by climate change.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Economic Development [60], Environment [15]

Examining the 21st Century Oil Company [79]

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company exemplifies how an organization may go from good to great through a focus on innovation. In this audio lecture, CEO Abdallah Jum'ah shares with an audience of Stanford MBA students how he has harnessed the brainpower of his people to come up with breakthrough solutions in areas such as technology, tools, processes, and organizational management. His talk demonstrates how living the values of innovation, insight, and principle can transform an organization and change the world.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Environment [15], Leadership [70]

What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader: John Doerr, Venture Capitalist [80]

What are the ingredients for great leadership and entrepreneurship today?

Resource: Video

Topic:

Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Lighting the Way to Economic Development [81]

Let there be light! That's Sam Goldman's motto, and he's taking it around the world. The founder of d.light design talks with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman about how he is bringing affordable, ecologically sustainable electricity and lighting to billions who are now operating in the dark. In this audio interview, he details aspects of the design, function, marketing, and distribution of the organization's products, as well as the kind of impact the social enterprise is having in some of the most remote, poor areas.

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Resource: Audio

Case Studies : All [83] | Academic Cases [84]

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Topics:

Environment [15], Nonprofit Management [86]

Wild Salmon Center [87]

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 [39], Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Gardenburger [88]

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 [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Touring in the Galapagos Islands [89]

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

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Environment [15]

Ma Jun and the IPE: Using Information to Improve China's Environment [90]

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

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Environment [15]

Maria Yee Inc.: Making 'Green' Furniture in China [91]

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

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Environment [15]

Environmental Enhancements in Road Vehicle Technologies [92]

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 [39], Environment [15]

Disclosure Dilemma: Financial Reporting of Contingent and Environmental Liabilities [93]

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

Resource: Academic Case

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Environment [15]

Fuel Economy Standards 2007 [94]

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

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Environment [15]

Note on Energy [95]

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

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Environment [15]

The Electric Car: The Major Players [96]

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 [15], Nonprofit Management [86]

Wild Salmon Center [87]

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

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Gardenburger [88]

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

Topic :

Environment [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Touring in the Galapagos Islands [89]

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

Topic :

Environment [15]

Ma Jun and the IPE: Using Information to Improve China's Environment [90]

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

Topic :

Environment [15]

Maria Yee Inc.: Making 'Green' Furniture in China [91]

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

Research Papers : All [103]

Topics:

Business [12], Socially Responsible Business [14], Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15]

Don't Tweak your Supply Chain - Rethink It End to End [104]

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 [14], Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15]

Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air? [105]

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 [15], Government [20], Leadership [70]

Would Boycotting BP Do Any Good? [106]

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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 [15]

A Room with a Viewpoint [107]

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

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Environment [15]

Slowing Introductions of New Electronic Products Reduces E-Waste [108]

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 [111]

Topic :

Environment [15]

Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers - advanced: OIT 339 [112]

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 [15]

Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers: OIT 338 [113]

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 [15]

Initiating, Sustaining, and Monetizing Green Marketing: MKTG 551 [114]

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 [15]

Business and Environmental Issues: GSBGEN 547 [115]

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 [15]

Environmental Entrepreneurship: GSBGEN 339 [116]

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 [117]

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Environment [15]

Water World [118]

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

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Environment [15]

Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04 [119]

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 [60], Environment [15]

How Growth Can Be Green [120]

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

Resource: Student

Topic :

Environment [15]

Jack May (MBA '84) [121]

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 [15]

Frank Gibson Myers (MBA '66) [122]

"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 [15], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh (MBA '94) [123]

As co-owners of Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite, a social enterprise that combines environmental stewardship and socially-minded employment strategies, Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh discuss keys and barriers to success, potential for scale, and opportunities for the future.

Resource: Innovators

Topic :

Board Governance [124], Business [12], Cause Marketing [125], Nonprofits [126], Social Enterprises [127], Socially Responsible Business [14], Environment [15], Leadership [70], Nonprofit Management [86]

An interview with Michael DeLapa (MBA '85) [128]

Michael DeLapa is heavily involved in environmental, land use, and energy issues. He has launched several non-profits in the Bay Area as well as the California Fisheries Fund.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Government Programs [129], Nonprofits [126], Social Policy [19], Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15], Government [20]

An interview with Jeremy Sokulsky (MBA '04) [130]

Jeremy Sokulsky is working with government land managers, environmental regulators and private conservation investors to restore Lake Tahoe clarity.

Resource: Alumni

Topic :

Environment [15], Government [20]

EDF Future of Green Calls [131]

Could it be that Defense takes the lead on climate change initiatives? An important DoD report cited climate change as a top national security concern. On this Future of Green Call, Daniel Kreeger explains how Defense is planning ways to avoid conflict over essential supplies such as clean water, resource consumption and keeping bases safe from predicted coastal flooding. Discussion also includes lessons learned from climate catastrophes and how to respond more quickly and efficiently to crisis.

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Resource: Audio

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [15], Nonprofit Management [86], Social Entrepreneurship [53]

Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World [132]

Businesses are in the business of business. But they are beginning to be in the business of doing social good as well. As companies shift to incorporate environmental, social, and welfare-based themes into business plans and products, Aron Cramer points out a trend of decreasing poverty and improving the environment as corporations look to increase both profit and human development.

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Resource: Audio

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