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Alumni Spotlight: Mona Das is Running for Congress
Alumni Spotlight: Mona Das is Running for Congress Meet Mona Das. Mona’s parents immigrated to America from India when she was 8 months old with $6 in their pocket, and an unfailing desire to build a better life for their family. Mona’s parents imbued her with courage, determination, and a strong work ethic. She settled …
One Planet, Two Cultures, One Curriculum: Taking the PGS Methodology to Colombia
Presidio Graduate School is always exploring and nurturing new opportunities to spread its brand of sustainable management and our techniques for teaching it. Entering into collaborations with other universities offers another avenue for doing this in addition to teaching our own graduates. This represents a new kind of leverage for us in our efforts to …
EarthEd: 2017 Worldwatch Institute State of the World
Presidio Graduate School is pleased to publish the below blog written by professor emeritus, Dr. Dwight Collins. Dear Presidians, The 2017 Worldwatch Institute State of the World (SOW) includes two very positive references to PGS. Its title this year is EarthEd with a focus on the state of education across the planet relative to sustainability. In a …
Doing Good Looks Good at the First PGS Clothing Swap
In step with Earth Day and Fashion Revolution Week, a week-long campaign calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry and commemorating the Rana Plaz factory collapse, where 1,138 people were killed and many more injured on April 24, 2013, the Sustainable Fashion Club hosted a clothing swap during San Francisco campus’s 4th …
Alumni Spotlight: Peter Schulte, SEA C13, Founder and Editor at Kindling
Alumni Spotlight: Peter Schulte, SEA C13, Founder and Editor at Kindling Media Peter is the Founder and Editor of Kindling – an online catalog of humanity’s evolution. Through Kindling, Peter showcases humanity’s great strides toward peace, justice, and sustainability and shines a light on possibilities for our future. Peter also works for the Pacific Institute …
At Conscious Company Media PGS Alumni Advance Sustainable Business
Less than a year ago, Presidio Graduate School (PGS founded in 2003) and Pinchot University (Pinchot founded in 2002) – the world’s two pioneers in graduate degrees in sustainable management – joined forces. In talking with alums of both schools, I’ve sensed palpable excitement at what these schools can learn from one another and accomplish together. Fortunately …
Sustainable Fashion Club and Goodwill Hunting Join Forces
By Melissa Hook Did you know… It takes 700 gallons of water to produce a single t-shirt. 200 million promotional t-shirts are made every year. 150 billion total gallons of water are lost per year — or the equivalent of draining the Lake Union every two weeks. Goodwill Hunting is the brainchild of Dave Bergart, Amy …
Seattle Students Visit Manufacturing Facilities
During the final fall residency weekend, first-year Presidio Graduate School students from the Seattle campus spent a whole day touring local manufacturing facilities to see the principles of operation they have been studying in action. The organizations we visited included Watson Furniture – maker of custom and catalog office workstations; Sage – maker of high-end …
Master’s Degrees with Meaning
We Offer “Realist Idealists” Master’s Degrees with Meaning Reflections from Richard Gray, PhD. What are the motivators of human decisions and action? There are at least three: PLEASURE Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) concluded that pleasure is the governing principle in life. In the final analysis, pleasure is what we seek, consciously or unconsciously, and what …