April 27th, 2012 New Living Expo Panel: 8:00pm Girl’s Night Out at Temple: 10:00pm While women only hold 8% of general management positions in the U.S., they hold 39% of the leadership positions in sustainability fields. As the cornerstone of the new economy, sustainable business practices and environmental stewardship are giving women increased opportunities to gain influence and affect social change. Some women are in high-level leadership corporate positions while others are developing their own start-ups. This panel, featuring Technica President Lisa Ann Pinkerton, will engage audiences on how women are gaining equal ground with men through opportunities in sustainability leadership. The panel will provide tips to encourage more environmental… Continue Reading
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Top 10 Women of Sustainability
In this second installment in our series on leading women in cleantech and sustainability sectors, we offer up our top picks for the sustainability sector. Quite often this category is dominated by women working in Corporate Social Responsibility, as it’s a sector where women have made great strides to gain leadership roles in the last few decades. However, for our series, we are saving those women of CSR for a later post. This let’s us focus more on those women doing unique sustainability work that might otherwise not be noticed. Stay tuned for our Women of CSR post, it’s not far behind! 1. Nikki Pava – Co-founder, Eco Tuesday &… Continue Reading
Top 10 Women of BioFuels
Series: Influential Women in Cleantech As the founder of the Bay Area networking group, Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, I am keenly interested in learning about who the media thinks as being the most influential women in the field. However, it feels like every top ten list for women in Cleantech always lists the same lovely ladies. This is not to say that the women are not contributing massively to the effort of clean technology, they are. And there are so many more women in the field! Clean technology is ever-changing, with new innovators, particularly among women, making their mark in a traditionally male-dominated field. In this occasional series, we… Continue Reading
Kleantech Karaoke in San Francisco
What’s it going to be, Bon Jovi, Sting, Lady Gaga? You can sing anything you want, or just enjoy the rest of us making fools of ourselves at Kleantech Karaoke. Jump off the grid and channel the Journey/Beatles/Madonna within you!
If the Giants can do it, so can YOU — DON’T STOP BELIEVING!!!!!
We are partnering with Solar Marketing Group to have some a fun night out and make solid connections. Everyone is welcome to join us for what promises to be a rockin’ good time!
Getting Smart On Water Technologies
From graywater to blue water—with shades of gray in between—strategic use of water is one of the hottest cleantech topics, possibly surpassing energy over the next 5 years.
In addition to residential use, water used for cooling data centers and power plants, mining, food and materials processing, and agriculture requires more federally mandated treatment, creating greater markets for any innovation that can clean and recycle water and make best use of it. More>>
