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Presidio Graduate School Celebrates Emerging Sustainability Leaders and Visionaries
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 years of intersectoral, interdisciplinary work and the launching (or …
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 …
Enlight Foundation Provides $3M Gift to Presidio Graduate School
SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2015 – Presidio Graduate School has received the largest donation in its 13-year history, a $3,000,000 grant from the Palo Alto-based Enlight Foundation. “We are both honored and delighted to have the Enlight Foundation as a partner in PGS’s growth,” said William Shutkin, PGS’s President, and CEO. “The foundation and its …
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 …
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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 …
Presidian Power: Presidio Alumni Create Meaningful Careers at PG&E (Part 1 of 4)
Lindsay Saxby (C12) can trace her career at PG&E back to a single journal entry on an ordinary day of class. “I was in Nils [Moe]’s class and expressed that I was looking for a new career,” she remembers. “Nils had heard about a solar permitting project in the East Bay that was offering an …