Sustainability

 Stacy Flynn just changed the world. Today, Stacy’s textile technology startup Evrnu™, SPC and global jeanswear leader Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) announced they have created the world’s first jean made from regenerated post-consumer cotton waste. Evrnu uses a new, patent-pending recycling technology to convert discarded consumer waste into a renewable fiber. The first prototype, …

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 …

This post was originally published in Conscious Company Magazine’s Fall 2015 issue. By Jimmy Jia In 1964, the Columbia River Treaty between the US and Canada created the hydropower management framework for the Pacific Northwest. The US was interested in developing hydropower but needed a steady supply of water. Since the first third of the …

Why do we do what we do as sustainable practitioners? It’s a question that comes up again and again in circles of sustainability. People like myself who do this work at institutions like Presidio want to know where did the motivations come from that give people the well of strength to be sustainable business leaders? …

 Name: Lyrica McTiernan Cohort: C11 Company: Facebook Title: Sustainability Manager Interview by Dany Warman (C19/PA5) I had the opportunity to attend Facebook’s Sustainability @Scale 2015 event this Summer. The event overall was very inspiring, and I got to meet Alyssa Holt and Lyrica McTiernan, the two alumni leading sustainability changes at Facebook. After playing phone and …

 This post was originally published on lunarmobiscuit.com on August 25, 2015. In the last post, I talked about how revenue-based investments are a lower cost of capital than traditional equity.  In this post, as promised, I’ll explain how they also better align the incentives of an investor with the entrepreneur. To start with, always remember …

Governor Brown appoints Matt Henigan California’s Deputy Secretary for Sustainability When Matt Henigan (C10) was a freshman at Pitzer College, a professor asked him the question that would end up shaping his academic and professional life. “What is the question you’re in school to answer?” As a child, Matt was the kid with the lemonade stand raising …

 Let’s be honest: the deficit isn’t going away anytime soon. It is a problem, but it’s not the real problem. The real issue we need to be concerned with is that our money system cannot create a sustainable economy, at least not in today’s world. Money is issued by the same debt system used to …

Millennials and women today are approaching investments a bit differently than men and women in the past. Statistically speaking, their investments are based on more than the chance to receive the highest return possible—they’re also based on the social and environmental impact of the investment. Consider the Statistics According to Morgan Stanley, 40 percent of …

On Wednesday, February 25th three of the world’s top sustainable apparel pioneers joined the Presidio Graduate School community for an inspiring and candid conversation about the future of fashion. Melissa Fifield is senior director of Sustainable Innovation for Gap Inc., a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, …