Nestled within the bustle of San Francisco city life lies the serene Presidio National Park, home of the prestigious Presidio Graduate School. Founded in 2003, Presidio Graduate School educates and inspires a new generation of skilled, visionary and enterprising leaders to transform business and public policy and create a more just, prosperous and sustainable world.

How does Presidio Graduate School accomplish this while offering rigorous MBA, MPA and Executive Certificate programs? Presidio’s sustainable management program is “a strategic approach to rethinking everything.” This forward thinking is what makes Presidio one of the top sustainable programs in the country.

No matter your interest or educational background, Presidio Graduate School will teach you how to harness your power to design healthier products, address complex social injustices and understand environmental issues that affect us all. Presidio integrates sustainability into every course – from sustainable leadership to life cycle accounting, from social marketing to ecological economics. Students apply sustainability frameworks and methods to real-life business cases both within actual companies, non-profits and government agencies, and within their own career and/or entrepreneurial plans. Presidio allows students to tackle real world problems in a real world setting.

Sustainability is not a buzz word; it is a real way of thinking about the world in a holistic and healthy way. It is important to teach students and future leaders how to transform the business world to become more sustainable. If you are interested in taking your career to the next level or in learning more about the Sustainable Management programs at the Presidio Graduate School, please make sure to sign up for one of their upcoming information sessions.

Well in 2011, San Francisco took the title as the “greenest city in North America”. The study, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit studied the environmental performance and commitments by 27 major metro areas in the U.S. and Canada, and we won!

 This is greatly due to the efforts of this month’s guest speaker, Johanna Partin. Johanna serves as Director of Climate Protection Initiatives in the office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, where she advises Mayor Lee on citywide sustainable energy, climate, transportation, green building and other programs promoting sustainability for San Francisco.

In addition to creating change in the mayor’s office Johanna has over 17 years' experience in the fields of renewable energy, microfinance, gender equity and sustainable development, and has worked both locally and in more than 15 countries around the world.

If you are interested in learning more about change starting at the local level and how you can help Johanna and the city of San Francisco keeps it title, come to our next EcoTuesday event January 24th at The W Hotel, SF.

To see what topics Johanna will be discussing and register for this very special event, click here.

Our last EcoTuesday SF was a great success. We had an amazing turn out and we learned a lot. Did you know that IT data centers are responsible for 2% of world emissions, yet they can positively impact the remaining 98% of emissions in the world?

Thank you to our wonderful brilliant speaker, Peter Perrault, from NetApp who was able to explain IT and its role within Sustainability so clearly that even non IT people like me were able to comprehend.

NetApp practices what they preach by “keeping their own house in order first” therefore they have worked hard to receive the first EPA Energy Star certification for a data center. Additionally, they understand that the People portion of People, Planet and Profit is equally as important and offer all their employees 40 paid hours to do community service in the local communities. Must be why they are ranked #5 by FORTUNE as one of the top 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011(netapp.com).

I also want to say a big thank you to Shelly and John at CompoClay who helped us out tremendously with our last two events and have provided such a welcoming place for all our EcoTuesday attendees.

And finally I would like to extend a warm Thank You to everyone that helped make EcoTuesday a success over the past year, we greatly appreciate your feedback and support and we look forward to an amazing 2012 with all of you!

Living in the Bay Area we are the hub of technology, but how can technology help us become more sustainable? This month, we explore the unique opportunities that tech provides to us to  become more efficient and more environmentally responsible, all while saving a tremendous amounts of money.

November’s speaker, Peter Perrault from NetApp, better known as the “Green Giant” is well versed in how to overcome environmental challenges and turn them into real savings. In 2008, “PG&E presented NetApp with a rebate of $1.4 million under PG&E's Non-Residential New Construction Program, which encourages PG&E's commercial, industrial, high-technology, and agricultural customers to implement energy-efficient building and process design and construction” (Netapp.com).

Peter heads NetApp’s Global Sustainability Program and has extensive experience in sustainability and environmental economics. In addition to leading the way in green tech he also is the co-chair of the Environment Committee for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an advocacy organization working to ensure economic health and a high quality of life for the entire Silicon Valley community.

Come learn more about how IT can enable sustainability for the greater good at EcoTuesday SF, November 15^th(one week early!).

Please RSVP  here.

Are you looking to promote your new startup, attract possible funders, or spread the word on a new initiative? If so we invite you to attend “pitch” night on September 27^th.

This month we will be hosting a very special EcoTuesday event where we open the floor to 10 lucky participants to “pitch” their organization. Each person will be randomly selected (via a business card entry) and given 3 minutes to "pitch" their company or initiative.

Given that EcoTuesday is known to attract many sustainable business leaders from all over the Bay Area this will be a great opportunity to promote your company while receiving useful feedback.

Additionally, this event will be held at one of SF’s premier green nightclubs, Temple. Who’s vision is ‘to create an eco-concious’ ‘edu-tainment’ complex that works synergistically with all of the entities of the Zen Compound to inspire and work with the community to take on the most challenging issues facing San Francisco and our planet... and have a good time doing it!”

Plus, one lucky person will be taking home a very special raffle prize at the end of the evening!

As you can see this will be a night full of exciting opportunities so don’t miss it. Tickets are selling quickly so please RSVP as soon as possible!

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 27^th.