I happened to meet a wonderful couple earlier this afternoon at a restaurant that featured the UCLA/USC game on a television screen. When, during a pause in our conversation, the wife caught me glancing upward and asked me whom I …
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Sustainability Conferences at UCLA — Always Fascinating
There were some very thought-provoking presentations at the quarterly “Sustainability Partners Conference” at UCLA yesterday. At issue is a central question: does sustainability pay for itself? I.e., do companies that have vigorously and sincerely woven sustainability in their corporate DNA …
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Does It Pay to “Go Green?”
Unfortunately, this week’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — featured a few “corporate commercials,” i.e., shameless, disingenuous (and dull) promotion of an organization’s work in becoming a better steward of the environment, with little or no value to the …
Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green
I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Doing Great Work
I just got off the phone with Fred Walti, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, a terrific non-profit whose purpose is to foster the development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, …
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Teach Peace
I always enjoy the opportunity to talk with college students about their aspirations and their observations from the perspective of their young lives. Last night I stayed at the home of one of my best friends from my boyhood, which …
