Sustainable MBA program(s) and a passion for making a difference

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Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers Sustainability MBA programs. They claim to be the first. They have several certificate programs and several concentrations. Pretty cool. BGI is Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) accredited.  Watch this great news show “Behind the Scenes” with Jane Pauley …August 5th, 2011 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/44158440#44158440 Associated text/article: http://www.bgi.edu/voice-of-bgi/filming-your-life-calling/ Actual edu: http://www.bgi.edu/ Course list: http://www.bgi.edu/academics/mbas/course-list/ Always, (almost always) a good source of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Graduate_Institute

New program at USF examines water bottle usage

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New program at USF examines water bottle usage (2.44 min video) This is a cool/excellent program at USF related to eliminating the water bottles use on campus. Note the refill stations being used throughout campus. We all need to get way from the bottled water. 13B plastic bottles per year now. That’s a 10 fold increase from 10 years ago.!:-( Environmental literate.

Earth’s Net Energy Change/monitoring… Little analysis of earth’s energy.

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Trenberth on Tracking Earth’s energy: A key to climate variability and change This is a serious analysis of the energy flows of the earth systems.  You simply look at energy as a budget (but hopefully not with the same budget processes as many of the countries use like the PIIGS and the USA). You have so much energy coming in. That energy is reflected and absorbed into the earth systems (oceans mainly). The problem is…

Over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability

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Interesting article. Three BIG reasons why we in the USoA companies are not being sustainable with our Over-Innovation ways. I think the short-term focus is a Big one. Focus on the immediate sell of the immediate product is probably the underlying problem more than any other. Article: over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability

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EPA is finally going to conduct a big Environmental Study on Gas Fracking

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There has been a painfully slow move to NatGas in the US, even though we appear to have centuries worth of it using new fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques. The one holdup, kinda, is being blamed on the possible environmental impact from gas drilling. (As if it could be worse than oil with its BP Gulf and Exxon Yellowstone spills in the last two years.) So the EPA is conducting a few big studies. With…