Student Experience
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 …
Welcome to the City of Amazement: Musings from the International Sustainability Club in India (1/10)
We filtered in from various locations into Pollinate Energy’s home base called the Hive to start our newest ISC adventure in Hyderabad, India. Our official start Monday morning in the Hive was only the start to an overflowing day of introductions, immersion, and adventure. We met and learned more about our hosts, Pollinate Energy and …
Learning the Language of the New Economy
I was a humanities major as an undergrad. Asian Studies, with a concentration in Japanese language. Part of the challenge of learning a new language for me was this: It was not just the words I needed to learn, it was an entire way of thinking, a world view, and a shared cultural understanding. In …
Three ways Presidio Graduate School prepared me for my EDF Climate Corps Fellowship
If you’re looking for reassurance that today’s energy problems are being considered by the best and the brightest our generation has to offer, look no further than the 117 EDF Climate Corps Fellows deployed across the country this summer. The fellowship program recruits and trains top graduate students, traditionally from MBA and engineering programs, …
Transition To A Career In Sustainable Business
Smart. Successful. Professional. Ambitious. Confident. I associate these words with management professionals and my classmates at Presidio Graduate School (PGS). Genuine. Selfless. Positive. Passionate. Dedicated. These characteristics may not always be the first ones used to describe business people, but these words clearly described my fellow classmates at PGS. Presidio offers a truly unique management …
Gaining Summer Perspective: Shasta Summit
I was on the night train to Vancouver when I awoke somewhere—probably northern California but I couldn’t say for sure. There were no signs or cities or other manmade artifacts to give clue to my whereabouts, just railroad ties along some high alpine plain. The sun had just come up and was reflecting off the …
Thule & Tuvalu - A Portrait Of Two Places At The Brink of Climate Change
Students and staff at Presidio Graduate School attended the SF Green Film Festival last week to decompress and celebrate together the end of another powerful semester. We had the opportunity to watch the documentary “ThuleTuvalu,” a story about two places at opposite edges of the world but with one common threat: climate change. The film documents …
From Novice to Leader, Outdoors Club Backpacks Through Point Reyes!
When I signed up for the Outdoors Club Spring weekend camping trip in Pt. Reyes, I was making two gambles: 1) I had never been backpacking before and 2) I was entirely new to school — a fresh addition to Presidio’s C22. Spoiler alert: None of this mattered by the end of the trip. The …