Presidian Blog
Conveying the Message: An Interview with Carl Schneebeck & Nils Moe
Ever seen a pair become so in sync they start to dress alike? With matching plaid shirts and stylish kicks, PGS professors Carl Schneebeck (C7) and Nils Moe (C3) have an uncanny ability to look, speak and communicate with a flow that rivals the most polished cinematic duos. But the “MoeBeck look” isn’t how these …
From Mattel to Cisco: In the Trenches with Kathleen Shaver
Kathleen Shaver, MS, is Director of Sustainability and Risk at Cisco Systems where she has been the architect of Cisco’s sustainability and social responsibility strategy for global supply chain operations. She is a past Director of Corporate Responsibility at Mattel and President of the Chlorine Institute. She is also serving as PGS’s Expert in Residence …
PGS Takes EDF’s Climate Corps By Storm
PGS Takes EDF’s Climate Corps By Storm This summer, I will be writing the Strategic Energy Management Plan for the City of Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve never worked in government before. I have definitely never put together a formal energy management plan. My background is in project management and financial services. So how did I get …
Where do we go from here? Wrapping up ISC’s Chile adventure
The sun is setting on the PGS International Sustainability Club’s blog series on this past January’s service-learning trip to Chile. Since the beginning of March, you have been treated to pieces on everything from the background of the trip to Santiago’s future as a smart city to what it means to go on an international …
PHYSICIST DISHES ON THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE TO CLIMATE PROGRESS
Eric Gimon, PhD, describes himself as a “climate activist focused on helping society find practical solutions for moving beyond fossil fuels and towards a sustainable future.” He wears many hats, including advisor to the Clean Coalition, Board Member of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Pacific Institute, consultant, and instructor. Eric is also …
Marketing the work not the brand
My Experiential Learning team — Scott Bright (C17), Julian Fishman (C17), Trey Graham (C15), Sam Ruben (C17/PA4), and myself — recently partnered with the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) a non-profit project of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland. The BACC acts as a public-private catalyst …
Faculty Profile: Dariush Rafinejad
Yes, he has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, teaches Sustainable Products and Services, and consults for Chevrolet, but who is the man behind that dashing smile, the stylish glasses, and European tweed jacket? Here’s a quick profile of one of PGS’s professors of innovation. Dariush, the agitator? As a student at UC Berkeley in the …
Google Transportation EL earn $15,000 grant for PGS
Brendon Harrington, Transportation Operations Manager for Google, approached our Experiential Learning (EL) team with a seemingly simple problem. “What’s keeping me up at night,” he said at our first meeting, “is parking.” For a company that deals regularly with digital information in the cloud, physical space had suddenly become a constraint to growth. Parking at …
FROM CLASSICS TO SOLAR
I met fellow classmate and solar connoisseur, David Stripling (C14), at a linen covered table at the Lone Palm in the Mission District of San Francisco. I intended to hear about David’s journey into renewable energy, assuming there would be some trajectory to his story, a thread to follow. But David’s career reads like more …
OPOWER ENGAGEMENT MANAGER ENCOURAGES ENERGY CONSUMERS TO CONSERVE
As a senior consultant at ICF International, Joe Herr (C13) used to inventory and analyze greenhouse gas emissions for the US EPA and United Nations, develop agricultural emissions projection tools for the USDA, and launch projects like the Climate Ready Estuaries program. But while crunching GHG numbers helped mold his view of humans’ impact on …
