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
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>>
Living A Sustainable Life, Inside and Out
In recent years, the term “sustainability” has become synonymous with green living. Yet, living a sustainable life means more than using the right plastics, eating local produce and composting your waste (among other things). Living sustainably means ensuring a positive work-life balance, optimizing your health, limiting exposure to toxins, keeping stress at bay, etc.
The sustainability of our lives, is marked by what we choose to expose ourselves to and the pace we set for our lifestyle. It boils down to the question, “How long can I keep this up?” Read more>>
