by Head Green Guru | Dec 1, 2015 | Best Practices and Tools, Climate Change, Collaboration/partnerships
Two big announcements from the University of California (UC). At the UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit at UC San Diego last month, UC went deeper with its commitment to fight climate change, releasing Bending the Curve, a new plan that outlines 10 solutions...
by Head Green Guru | Nov 12, 2014 | Best Practices and Tools, Collaboration/partnerships
At the 2014 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference in Portland a few weeks ago, I joined over 30 sustainability leaders for Disruptive Sustainability, an inspiring pre-conference workshop led by Leith Sharp, director...
by Dfleischer | Mar 17, 2014 | Best Practices and Tools, Collaboration/partnerships
Adam Schnirel, UCSF Mission Bay Recycling Coordinator, spends most of his time finding ways to divert waste from the landfill. He has always envisioned having a center at UCSF that could offer hands-on workshops for the UCSF community on such issues as composting and...
by Dfleischer | Oct 24, 2011 | Best Practices and Tools, Business case for going green, Collaboration/partnerships, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Sustainable Brands
Sustainable Industries Economic Forum, held in San Francisco last week, was full of feisty dialogue and a big announcement about the merger between Sustainable Industries and Triple Pundit. The overarching theme was “access economy”–a newly coined...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 22, 2009 | Best Practices and Tools, Collaboration/partnerships, Creativity, Green Events, Leadership
By Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact Ever since I studied adaptive leadership with Ronald Heifetz at Harvard, I have been interested in the intersection between organizational change, systems theory and sustainability issues. Many sustainability professionals seem to...
by Head Green Guru | Aug 21, 2009 | Collaboration/partnerships, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainability, Sustainable Business
By Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact After years of being worn down by Greenpeace’s arsenal of corporate campaign tools, Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brands, recently announced stronger fiber sourcing standards that will increase...