Student Experience

PGS Takes EDF’s Climate Corps By Storm This summer, I will be writing the Strategic Energy Management Plan for the City of Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve never worked in government before. I have definitely never put together a formal energy management plan. My background is in project management and financial services. So how did I get …

The sun is setting on the PGS International Sustainability Club’s blog series on this past January’s service-learning trip to Chile. Since the beginning of March, you have been treated to pieces on everything from the background of the trip to Santiago’s future as a smart city to what it means to go on an international …

This fall, Team Blue Wave — Nick Lee (C13), Ema Phelps (C16), Sam Ruben (C17), and myself — collaborated on an Experiential Learning (EL) project with Beau Perry (C5), founder of Olazul, a non-profit developer of sustainable, market-based solutions for satisfying demand for ocean goods. Our team’s task was to design an operations plan for …

My Experiential Learning team — Scott Bright (C17), Julian Fishman (C17), Trey Graham (C15), Sam Ruben (C17/PA4), and myself — recently partnered with the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) a non-profit project of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland.  The BACC acts as a public-private catalyst …

Yes, he has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, teaches Sustainable Products and Services, and consults for Chevrolet, but who is the man behind that dashing smile, the stylish glasses, and European tweed jacket? Here’s a quick profile of one of PGS’s professors of innovation. Dariush, the agitator? As a student at UC Berkeley in the …

Brendon Harrington, Transportation Operations Manager for Google, approached our Experiential Learning (EL) team with a seemingly simple problem. “What’s keeping me up at night,” he said at our first meeting, “is parking.” For a company that deals regularly with digital information in the cloud, physical space had suddenly become a constraint to growth. Parking at …

I met fellow classmate and solar connoisseur, David Stripling (C14), at a linen covered table at the Lone Palm in the Mission District of San Francisco. I intended to hear about David’s journey into renewable energy, assuming there would be some trajectory to his story, a thread to follow. But David’s career reads like more …

  When I was making a decision of where to go to graduate school, the deciding factor that attracted me to Presidio was the outstanding community. It is very inspiring to spend one’s days surrounded by passionate and talented individuals who are all working toward the audacious goal of making the world a better place.  …

On October 24-26, thousands of sustainable business professionals and students will descend upon Silicon Valley for the 2013 Net Impact conference. Our PGS Net Impact chapter is a co-host this year, curating 6 conference tracks, and bringing the most members of any Net Impact chapter in the country.  We’re also up for Chapter of the …

Presidio Professor Dwight Collins, PhD, and MBA Candidate Meghna Tare will be presenting together at the  2013 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference & Expo in Nashville, Tennessee today. The AASHE conference convenes more than 2000 people from over 200 colleges and universities, and is North America’s largest higher education …