GreenBiz 2015 | GreenBiz Conferences, Feb 17-19, 2015:
This is a very cool Sustainability/GreenBiz forum lineup. In Phoenix, in February.
Listen to some of the big companies out there including Unilever, J&J, Target, Levi's, adidas,... I like some of the discussion on metrics and ROI from sustainability... Seems like such a good place to start.
Should be fun. Also, if you are associated with Gov or Edu or ?Org? you might be eligible for a 40% discount.
I might have to try to do it online. I didn't see any details about that. Obviously keynotes are easier to virtualize than breakout/work sessions.
Hope to see you all there.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
DOW's Solutionism. !:-)
Dow Solutionism:
This is a very cool concept from DOW.
Solutionism... Kinda a cure for consumerism, where it's all about how much you can consume in your lifetime.
Maybe this should be one of the cures for consumerism, one of the great Social Irresponsibilities?
Interesting idea. Work backwards from each problem -- and the associated solutions to them -- into helping address the root cause of the original problem.
Generally we tend to symptom solutions, not real solutions.
Pretty cool ads for greening up the Olympics as well.:-)
Solutionism. I like it.
www.DOW.com/Solutionism/
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Green Car Congress: GE Energy launches fully networked Wattstation and Wattstation Connect software; pay by smartphone
Green Car Congress: GE Energy launches fully networked Wattstation and Wattstation Connect software; pay by smartphone:
ALL Right,
We are finally making serious headway for an all electric car. (Or even a (re)Volt economy.)
BUT we gotta get off Coal as the power source.
Way to go GE.
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ALL Right,
We are finally making serious headway for an all electric car. (Or even a (re)Volt economy.)
BUT we gotta get off Coal as the power source.
Way to go GE.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
How Green Are You? (quick Green Questionnaire)
How Green Are You? | Parade.com
Earth Day Questionnaire.
Great Earth Day. Planting and Sowing... Try this simple questionnaire to see: How Green are You? Parade.com: How Green Are You?
Pretty good questionnaire. I'm not as green as I should be. I drive too fast, for example.
Couple questions were a little fuzzy. I didn't like the rationale on the Light Bulb questions.
See how you do.
Only takes a couple minutes.
Maybe it will lead you to some Earth Day resolutions you made yesterday.
Good luck.
Think Green.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sustainable MBA program(s) and a passion for making a difference
Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers Sustainability MBA programs. They claim to be the first. They have several certificate programs and several concentrations. Pretty cool.
BGI is Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accredited.
BGI is Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accredited.
Watch this great news show “Behind the Scenes” with Jane Pauley ...August 5th, 2011
Associated text/article: http://www.bgi.edu/voice-of-bgi/filming-your-life-calling/
Actual edu: http://www.bgi.edu/
Actual edu: http://www.bgi.edu/
Course list: http://www.bgi.edu/academics/
Always, (almost always) a good source of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Sustainability in Education?
Even though campuses are getting greener, the classes are not.
A big study of campuses, the Campus Report Card, by the NWF (with others) showed how much various schools are doing in terms of sustainability. They are doing a lot on campus but not much teaching of the concepts in the classroom. (Also see some recent research on Generation E.)
The Campus Report Card is actually two similar studies, on in 2001 and one in 2008. They show that the course offerings of environmental and sustainability programs essentially reduced by half. That is, the average student in 2001 had an 8% chance of having an sustainability/environment class, but that dropped in half to 4% chance by 2008.
In fact the worst educational department was teachers education. "Teacher education, that program that trains K-12 teachers, has about a 15% chance of being able to take a course on sustainability within their major" (Hall et al., 2009, p. 17).
The best guess as to why this drop happened is because of two forces. First, and probably foremost, the prices of oil were really low until after this 2008 study was completed (and then they shot up to ~$150 per barrel). Second, the Bush/Chaney administration was friendly to oil interests and not so friendly to environmental interests (no links to environmental sites comments on this since this is a family-friendly site).
Can we move forward with Sustainability in the US without educating on the subject?
Tell us what you think?
Reference
Hall, E., Taylor, S., Zapalski, C., & Hall, T. (2009). Sustainability in education: Green in the facilities, but not in the classrooms. Proceedings of the Society for Advancement of Management, USA.
A big study of campuses, the Campus Report Card, by the NWF (with others) showed how much various schools are doing in terms of sustainability. They are doing a lot on campus but not much teaching of the concepts in the classroom. (Also see some recent research on Generation E.)
The Campus Report Card is actually two similar studies, on in 2001 and one in 2008. They show that the course offerings of environmental and sustainability programs essentially reduced by half. That is, the average student in 2001 had an 8% chance of having an sustainability/environment class, but that dropped in half to 4% chance by 2008.
In fact the worst educational department was teachers education. "Teacher education, that program that trains K-12 teachers, has about a 15% chance of being able to take a course on sustainability within their major" (Hall et al., 2009, p. 17).
The best guess as to why this drop happened is because of two forces. First, and probably foremost, the prices of oil were really low until after this 2008 study was completed (and then they shot up to ~$150 per barrel). Second, the Bush/Chaney administration was friendly to oil interests and not so friendly to environmental interests (no links to environmental sites comments on this since this is a family-friendly site).
Can we move forward with Sustainability in the US without educating on the subject?
Tell us what you think?
Reference
Hall, E., Taylor, S., Zapalski, C., & Hall, T. (2009). Sustainability in education: Green in the facilities, but not in the classrooms. Proceedings of the Society for Advancement of Management, USA.
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