Presidian Blog
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 …
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 …
Reflections on Presidio Presents: Women in Tech
Presidio Presents: Women in Tech featured some incredible women panelists, including Yahoo’s Global Director of Energy and Sustainability Strategy, Christina Page, VMWare’s Foundation Director, Nicola Acutt (former Associate Dean and Faculty Member at Presidio), and Citrix’s Startup Accelerator Marketing, Community, and Events Manager, Casey Shultz (C17). They spoke before an audience on Thursday, November 5th …
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 …
Changing the Energy Conversation
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 …