Last month at the White House’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Summit for Global Development, UnderSecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property David Kappos launched a novel program created by the USPTO called the Patents for Humanity Challenge.

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Hunter Lovins set down last week to a conversation with Eban Goodstein, the Director of the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Bard Center for Environmental Policy. This talk was a chance not only to learn more about Lovins’ impressive biography, but also to explore with her the sustainability challenges we are facing.

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Our team would be grateful if you would watch a couple of these videos, and tell us, frankly, what you think. Could these stories make a difference in perceptions of Chevrolet?

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The Aspen Institute recently released their annual list of top business schools that offer sustainable MBAs. According to Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey:  ”The number of business schools teaching MBA students to examine the social, environmental and ethical impacts of business decisions continues to grow, spurred by the global economic downturn, rising student demand and [...]

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By Martin Melaver Monaco on a Friday night. Lamborghinis parked like cheap Vespas in front of the casino, cruise-boat tourists gawking and taking snaps of anything that comes or goes, but especially balding, graying, paunch-expanding silk suits with young long-legged things draped on them. And in the casino itself, and I’m talking about the cheap [...]

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In May, my TriplePundit colleague Tina Casey wrote a good piece on Green Mountain College’s success in achieving carbon neutrality. I enjoyed Tina’s work a great deal, but wanted to expand a bit on the story. Forgive a soon-to-be alum for bragging and please allow me to indulge in the celebration of my alma mater’s [...]

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Are you wondering how you can make a difference in the world? The green MBA, also known as a Sustainable MBA, is worthy of your consideration. Green MBA programs combine leadership with principles of environmental sustainability. With a growing population, rapid climate change, and limited resources, the world needs innovative, caring leaders who manage companies [...]

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Antioch University New England’s Sustainable MBA is a proud sponsor of Triple Pundit Thinking about pursuing an MBA in sustainable management? Antioch University New England’s online program may be just the ticket. The online program delivers the same curriculum and faculty found in the 24-month weekend program and the 12-month accelerated program, but students can [...]

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We’ve enjoyed a close relationship with Net Impact over the years and are excited to help them present their new career guide: Corporate Careers That Make a Difference. The new guide looks at how working professionals are bringing corporate citizenship to otherwise “conventional” jobs. The personal stories featured in the guide get tend to get started [...]

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Are you a current MBA student? Our friends at Hult International Business school are excited to invite you to participate in the 2nd annual Hult Global Case Challenge on March 5, 2011. This year’s event will tackle another global social challenge, as student teams of five will come together from around the world to take [...]

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This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By John Intrater Facebook and Twitter. At this point, just about everyone has used one of these two applications in their life. However, the most significant feature isn’t [...]

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By Samantha Johnston As many upcoming college graduates and professionals are looking at graduate school applications for next fall, some are considering the MBA as part of their career path.  Net Impact is shedding light on this topic in a few ways, most notably the 2010 Business as UNusual guide to graduate programs.  For more [...]

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This post is part of a short interview series featuring the winners and runners up for the 2010 Net Impact Force For Change Award The Award recognizes outstanding Net Impact members who have led an employee or student-driven project with tangible positive social and/or environmental impacts. I asked each participant to introduce their project and [...]

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Editor’s Note: It’s an honor and a pleasure to have the Presidio Graduate School as a sponsor of Triple Pundit. Both the publisher and managing editor of this site have degrees from Presidio. There are many fine institutions that promote sustainability, but there’s only one about which we can say this:  Triple Pundit as you know [...]

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This post is part of a short interview series featuring the winners and runners up for the 2010 Net Impact Force For Change Award The Award recognizes outstanding Net Impact members who have led an employee or student-driven project with tangible positive social and/or environmental impacts. I asked each participant to introduce their project and [...]

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By Leslie Back Those of us committed to sustainability might sometimes be hard pressed to stay optimistic. Bombarded with news of murky oil spills and other woes we might flirt with feelings of hopelessness. But, these are the times to search out the good things, to find what is going right, to find things that [...]

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By Pauline S Chandler The language of sustainability can be complex, particularly if it’s nested in systems thinking.  Learning how to make the case for sustainability needs to be situational.  I customize my “making a case for sustainability” style by asking a lot of questions. I find the best way to craft questions is by [...]

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By Leslie Back I love being a student, especially this time around. I am seven weeks into my Sustainable MBA and I am delighted by what I am working on. Well, let me qualify that. I like most of what I am working on. In truth, my statistics book cures insomnia, but the class has [...]

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By Leslie Back Last week, while speaking at the Green Economy Business and Leadership Briefing, Will Day, Chairman of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission and advisor to the UN Development Program (UNDP), suggested that sustainability is the greatest business opportunity of the 21st century. The presentation, delivered to Irish business leaders, served fair warning that [...]

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Today, three billion people—nearly half the world’s population—burn coal, wood, dung, or compost to heat their homes and cook their food. In addition to the deforestation associated with open fire cooking, especially in regions of conflict, the need for fuel often leaves searchers vulnerable, exposing them to risk of attack. This is particularly true in [...]

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Five years ago, 3p reported that GDP does not correlate with happiness, and that another, more holisitic metric—GPI, or Gross Progress Indicator—would be more apt. Now, in 2010, some say this is still true. This finding has been repeated and reported almost constantly in the last five years, which begs two points. First, that happiness is [...]

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by Mike Funk As a child, one of my favorite nighttime stories was Virginia Lee Burton’s classic, The Little House. The book follows the life of a tiny house in the countryside that gradually gets swallowed up by an encroaching nearby city. All the things the little house loves about its life in the country-the [...]

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by Kurt McCulloch When I was 18 years old, I voluntarily sequestered myself for nine-months on a narrow strip of rugged volcanic coastline on a tiny island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. For almost a year, I worked, slept, ate, and socialized inside an area bounded by mountains and the sea. Everything [...]

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By Ryan Opina “Great concepts and great vision are not enough to make an impact. Designers must recognize the challenges around implementation and deliver comprehensive prototypes with clear implementation plans.” -Tim Brown – Designing for Social Impact Grand visions of a breakthrough product. A service experience that will change the world. A video game that [...]

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By Jason Linder In 2008 CCA introduced an innovative new approach to the business degree—the MBA in Design Strategy. In 2009 CCA took this idea even further and began offering a dual-degree MFA/MBA. I am one of three students embarking on this hybrid journey. My curriculum integrates courses from the existing MFA in Design with [...]

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By Linda Chang & John Garvie Teach-Us-Something-in-7-Minutes is one of the keystone introductory projects of CCA’s DMBA program. The project, TUS-7M, as it came to be called, sets up students in pairs to develop a subject of compelling interest to be presented at a public event in CCA’s Timken Auditorium. The constraints were that we [...]

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By Elysa Soffer This is very NOT Good A tall, thin, blond woman in her mid-50s, with a thick Swiss-German accent condescends: “Class, come here, everyone, take a look. See this example on the wall? Does everyone see? This is very NOT good.” This was the voice of the typography and design studio teacher who [...]

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By Anna Acquistapace Feelings have never been a part of my past educational experience. We are taught to approach education as a purely intellectual endeavor that requires learning the material then proving you know it when exams come around. However, as we grow into adulthood through our school years, our emotional education develops unguided and [...]

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As I think of compelling stories to tell, I realize that I am not only writing stories to be enjoyed by others, but that I’m writing my own story as well—a story containing many pages of triumph and lessons learned through my own experiences, and through the stories of others. Each time I am blessed [...]

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As a first generation American, I have always been influenced by my parents, who continue to be a powerful example for me. Having faced cultural discrimination, they were forced to flee to the United States with practically nothing. They arrived here, to the land of opportunity, with an entrepreneurial spirit and made a success of [...]

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