Student Experience
2016 Commencement: Presidio Graduate School Celebrates Emerging Sustainability Leaders and Visionaries
Posted on CSRwire: Jun 08, 2016 – 10:05 AM EST SAN FRANCISCO, Jun. 08 /CSRwire/ – Presidio Graduate School (PGS) honored its 13th graduating class with a heartwarming commencement ceremony at the SFJAZZ Center. With frequent rounds of applause, voluminous cheering and occasional hooting, the 30 students of the Class of 2016 celebrated the culmination of …
Dear Sustainability Practitioners: Fear Won’t Sell, But Hope Might
Original publication on upstreamideas.org If you were to just turn on your TV, you would think that the debate around climate change hasn’t changed much since the early 2000’s. You would see a reoccurring conflict between contending forces, and for all the talking and debate the needle never moves. While not unimportant, I am asking …
Presidians Bond Over Camping and Condors
Recap of Fall 2015 Trip to Pinnacles National Park by Kathleen Wong, PGS Outdoors Club Chair One pleasant Fall weekend brought 17 Presidians together for an opportunity to step outside of the classroom to experience the outdoors. Pinnacles recently gained national park designation in 2013, making it one of America’s newest national parks. Just 3 …
Community Event with Stephanie Lampkin of Blendoor
I had the pleasure of going to dinner with Presidio’s community event speaker, Stephanie Lampkin, Dean Steven Crane and Avi Kruley earlier this month. Stephanie is the Founder & CEO of Blendoor, a “blind recruiting” app that facilitates job matching based on merit. Blendoor is a startup application aimed at increasing diversity in the workplace, …
Long Now Talk: Phil Tetlock on Superforecasting
Bo Han (C: “The topic of Superforecasting was something I have never thought of until Monday, except in the context of fortunetelling, which is a different art altogether. The fact that there are people who dedicate their career to this area is quite fascinating. According to Phil Tetlock, forecasting is a science and an art you …
Five Creative Ways to Fundraise
Five Creative Ways to Fundraise The International Sustainability Club had two main fundraisers over the fall semester. The effort was to support the ground work for a group of PGS students in Hyderabad, India with the organization Pollinate Energy, which works to improve access to energy for India’s urban poor. In the PGS spirit of doing …
A Presidians Guide to Promoting Solar through a Quickfire Event
Have you ever watched a Quickfire Challenge on Top Chef and wanted to participate, but your business acumen far outweighs your cooking ability? If so, then a Quickfire Challenge event is perfect for you. These four-hour design-thinking inspired sessions examine and tighten an organization’s strategy, identify ‘quick-wins,’ create a process for execution and allow space …
Three Reasons Why LEED Is Integral to All Sustainability Professionals
You may have heard of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, or as it is more commonly referred to, LEED. As sustainability professionals, we know it has become synonymous with green building, defining a set of standards and best practices for building design, construction, and operation. You probably also knew that LEED has become the …
Interview with Julia Sze: Follow the Money: How impact investing is redefining value
An Interview with Julia Sze The phrase, “follow the money” is one of the most familiar clichés of the business world. It is a phrase often loaded with skepticism, the thought process hinting, ‘if I just follow the dollar I can uncover the true motives of why the money is spent and then more easily find …
Net Impact 2015: Presidians Learn the Power of Big Business
The Net Impact conference is an opportunity for nearly 2,400 students and professionals to meet and discuss new directions and best practices for positive social and environmental impact. Presidio Graduate School was well represented at Net Impact 2015; a good thing at an event with over a dozen sessions going on at once. The biggest …